Design Providence

Design Providence is a multi disciplinary Design Consultancy in Interior Architecture, Product and Furniture Design and Research.

Interior Design, Design Providence, Interior Architecture, Product Design, Industrial Design, Research, Design research, Service Design

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Design Providence

Mark Watson

Principal Director

Master of Design RMIT

Founded in 1990, Design Providence is a multi disciplinary practice in the field of Interior Architecture and Product Design. Mark held office as Vice President with the Victorian Chapter of the Design Institute of Australia, also as Director with Arts & Recreation Training Victoria, and Artists & Industry. He is former Chair of the Victorian based Design Collective with the FIAA and member of the FIAA National Design & Innovation Committee.

Mark is now a member of the Building Designers Association of Victoria.

www.bdav.org.au

Highly regarded for expertise in furniture design, the practice has work represented in the National Gallery of Victoria, exhibiting both local and international, recently (2002) winning the ISSI - DIA Design Innovation Award. An inauguaral judge with the Australian Design Awards, Mark assisted ADA in setting up the criteria for Furniture and Lighting.

Mark completed a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at RMIT, the research topic entitled 'Belonging' investigated the role the physical environment plays in the form of artefacts.

Mark received an honorarium to present his findings at the International Interior Architect & Designer (IFI) Conference in Ireland in September 1997, and a paper titled “Sedition of the Gift’ at the IFI ‘Design Sutra’ conference in Mumbai, India in December 2003.

Recent projects include design research in alternatives to plastic shopping bags with EcoRecycle Victoria, Centre for Design at RMIT and the Design Institute of Australia.