Platform 12
The ambition of Platform 12 is to examine the reintegration of design with function. Design is not only about entertainment, where obsession with the latest fad or the predominance of individual genius far exceeds commitment to the collective effort that is needed to construct a new landscape for industrial design. Platform 12 attempts to achieve a better balance – whereby design can be seen as communication, a celebration of a model for how things work, where once again we can treat function as beauty, instead of merely treating design as form and image.
Tutors
Sam Hecht, Durrell Bishop, Andre Klauser
Students
2nd year: Yiting Cheng, Hye-Yeon Park, Emil Rosen, Tom Stables, Jamie Tunnard, Dirk Winkel, Shunsuke Tanaka (PEP 2009), Alejandro Villareal (PEP 2009)
1st year: Molly Anderson, Shota Aoyagi, Tom Jarvis, Ki Hyun Kim, Yoo Kyung Shin, Orchid To