Designer Profile 11: Rebekah Radtke
Place of Employment:
Rebekah is currently an
assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.
Biography:
Rebekah has been teaching for
five years. She originally wanted to become an artist. She also wanted to
attend Transylvania or Centre College but she decided to attend the University
of Kentucky because both Transylvania and Centre cost too much money. She
decided to take an architecture class but she then fell in love with
architecture. She completed her interior design program at the University of
Kentucky and wanted to become a lighting or product designer. Originally she
was all set to go to grad school to become a product designer but instead was
enrolled into an architecture program due to a mistake by the college. She
enrolled into the Art Institute of Chicago.
She then
moved back to Lexington in 2011 to become an assistant professor. She did not
always plan on becoming an interior designer but that is how things worked out.
She likes interior design because it is all about the people and their needs.
Current Position in
Design:
Rebekah
visited Brazil to work on community design projects. She assisted the displaced
population due to the Olympics.
Speculation about
where design will be heading:
Rebekah believes that we are the
future of design. She believes that no one is ever supposed to be a designer
but it works out that way. She believes that we need people who are not
designers but at the same time have knowledge of design.
Designer Profile 12: Anne Filson
Place of Employment:
Anne teaches at the University
of Kentucky in the school of architecture.
Biography:
Anne currently works with
architecture. She was not an architecture major during her undergraduate career
but she was an art history major. She got her master’s degree in a New York
architecture school.
Current Position in
Design:
Anne has worked in various
places for various people such as Rem Koolhass in Seattle. She has been
involved with the new Dutch Embassy in Berlin. She also worked on a new campus
center for IIT in Chicago. She led the team and supervised a team of
consultants, suppliers and contractors.
She also
has worked for a company known as Ideo which is a multidisciplinary agency. This
company was working on making design better and overall easy to use. She was in
charge of finding problems and developing solutions.
Speculation about
where design will be heading:
Anne believes that design is going
to be completed by machines in the future. These CNC machines are taking over
and the method is becoming more robust and is also great for the economy as
well as the consumer.
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