Vignelli Center Lecture: Patricia Moore
2023-09-06 21:30 - 22:30 UTC | MAGIC Spell Studios: Wegmans Theater
About Patricia Moore

Moore is an internationally renowned gerontologist and designer,serving as a leading authority on consumer lifespan behaviors andrequirements. For a period of three years (1979-1982), in an exceptionaland daring experiment, Moore traveled throughout the United States andCanada disguised as women more than eighty years of age. With her bodyaltered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging, shewas able to respond to people, products, and environments as anelder.

Her broad range of experience includes Communication Design, Research,Product Development and Design, Environmental Design, Package Design,Transportation Design, Market Analysis, and Product Positioning. Clientsinclude: AT&T, Baxter Healthcare, Bell Communication, BeverlyEnterprises, BOEING, Canadair, CARF International, Citibank, CorningGlass, General Electric, GTE, Hill-Rom, Herman Miller Healthcare,Honolulu Light Rail, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Wax, Kimberly Clark,Kaiser Permanente, Kraft General Foods, LOrad, NASA, Norelco NA, Merck,Sharp and Dohme, Manor Care, Marriott, Maytag, Monsanto, OXO, Pfizer,Playtex, Procter & Gamble, Searle Laboratories, Seoul Design CityProject, Sky Train (Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport), Sunbeam, 3M, ValleyMetro (Phoenix) Rail, Walgreen’s and Whirlpool.

Moore is a frequent international lecturer, media guest, author ofnumerous articles; the books DISGUISED: A True Story, The Business ofAging (2013), and OUCH! Why Bad Design Hurts (in the works).She is co-author of the American National Standards Committee onAnthropometry, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of theAmerican Physical Therapy Association, the Harrington Arthritis ResearchCenter, the Herberger Center for Design Excellence at Arizona StateUniversity, the Advisory Board of CARF (Certifying Association ofRehabilitation Facilities), and The American Occupational TherapyAssociation Foundation.

Moore holds undergraduate degrees in Industrial and Environmental andCommunication Design from RIT, completion of Advanced Studies inBiomechanics at New York University’s Medical School and Rusk Institutegraduate degrees in Psychology and Counseling & in Human Development(Social Gerontology) from Columbia University. Hasselt Universityawarded Moore a Ph.D. (2019), Sheffield Hallam University in 2021, andthe College for Creative Studies in 2022.

She was selected for the 1996 Community Service Award of the AmericanRehabilitation Association, for advancing independence and quality oflife with environmental design, the American Hospital Association’s1996 NOVA Award for the “Family Road” Care Centers, holistic healthenvironments for the promotion of appropriate childcare and parenting,the American Occupational Therapists Association’s 2005 LeadershipAward, The 2006 American Society of Interior Designers Humanitarian Awardand has been internationally honored for her work with OXO Good Grips™.Moore is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

Moore was presented with the Professional Recognition Award by theArizona Design Institute [1997] for fostering Excellence in Design andsupport to Design Education. Moore was the 1996 & 1997 CarnegieMellon University Visiting Design Chair, is an Adjunct Professor ofIndustrial Design at Arizona State University, and has lectured atuniversities throughout North America, Australia, China, Europe, Korea,Japan, New Zealand; Russia.

Moore has been named by ID magazine as one of "The 40 MostSocially Conscious Designers" in the world and was selected in 2000 by aconsortium of news editors and organizations, as one of The 100 MostImportant Women in America. Syracuse University selected Moore for a 2012Honorary Doctorate for serving as a “guiding force for a more humaneand livable world, blazing a path for inclusiveness, as a true leader inthe movement of Universal Design.” ABC World News featured Moore as oneof 50 Americans Defining the New Millennium.

In 2019, Moore was honored with Cooper Hewitt’s prestigious NationalDesign Award in the Design Mind category and The Center for HealthDesign honored Moore with the 2020 CHANGEMAKER Award. In 2022,the National Association of Schools for Art and Design honored Moore withtheir Citation Award and the World Design Organization selectedMoore for the World Design Medal which will be presented at the 2023World Design Congress in Tokyo.
