INTERSECTION: CRAFT ARTISANS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

MARCH 2003: The Smithsonian Associates Masters Program and Apartment Zero presented a free symposium examining the ever-blurring lines of distinction between craft artisans and industrial designers in the new millennium. Traditionally viewed as two parallel professions running in opposite directions, the two are now beginning to intersect in terms of material choice and manufacturing techniques. Participants included: Harry Allen, Industrial Designer; Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym, Industrial Designers; Peter Danko, Craft Artisan; Clive Dilnot, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Parsons School of Design; David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator, Museum of Arts and Design; Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and moderated by Heidi Nasstrom Evans, Decorative Arts Historian.