Ken Friedman - "The speaker".

Ken Friedman (born September 19, 1949 in New London, Connecticut) is Professor of Design Innovation Studies at Tongji University College of Design and Innovation and Eminent Scholar at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. He is Professor Emeritus at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he was previously Dean of the Faculty of Design. Friedman is Editor-in-Chief of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, published by Elsevier in association with Tongji University Press. He is co-editor of the book series Design Thinking, Design Theory from The MIT Press.


Friedman works at the intersection of design, management and art. His research focuses on strategic design and value creation for economic innovation. Friedman's research interests include theory building, research methodology, philosophy of design, doctoral education in design, knowledge management and philosophy of science. He has conducted design policy studies for Australia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Wales. In 2007, Loughborough University awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, for outstanding contributions to design research.
Ken Friedman is an artist and designer active in the international laboratory of art, design, music and architecture known as Fluxus. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. His work is represented in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart.
The University of Iowa Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts is the official repository of Friedman's papers and research notes. The Silverman Fluxus Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Archiv Sohm at the Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Mandeville Department of Special Collections at the University of California hold extensive archives of Friedman's work from the 1960s and 1970s. (2019)
Lithograph has never been framed.