Roy Fleetwood (born 1946 in

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) is a British

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and

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. He is director of the ''Office for Design Strategy'' in

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, England.

Life

From 1965 to 1971, Fleetwood studied Architecture in

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and a scholarship in

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. He was a partner in the architectural firm of

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in London from 1973 to 1983, and was a representative in

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from 1983 to 1986. His responsibility was the construction of the

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in Hong Kong, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and the Renault Centre in Swindon. Fleetwood has worked worldwide with companies such as Bulthaup, ERCO, Vitra and

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among others and made his name as a product designer. He received a variety of design awards. Fleetwood founded the "Office for Design Strategy" in Cambridge in 1986 and, with his partner

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, the architectural firm Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in

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in 1988. Since 2004 he is also a professor and holds a chair of design at the Victoria University of Wellington (VIC) in

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. He is a visiting professor at universities in Europe, USA and Japan. In 2007 he was a member of the jury of the red dot design award: product design.

Awards

* Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen * Industrie Forum Hannover, including iF awards for design and innovation * iF Ecology Design Award for the solar-powered lighting (for

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, Namerikawa, Japan) * Minerva Award from the Chartered Society of Designers in England (for Erco, Germany) * Federal Product Design Award of the German Federal Ministry of Economics (for Erco, Germany) * G-Mark Award from the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (for YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre, Japan) * Ecomark Award from the Japan Environment Association (for YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre, Japan)

References

External links

Official website
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