Amy Leidtke, RISD Professor, Industrial Designer, Educator Spends the Day at CSH

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transportation.

  ~Enrique Penalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota

On December 11th, Amy Leidtke, RISD Professor/Industrial Designer/Educator, spent an action-packed and  fruitful day with Sacred Heart students.  Third and sixth graders participated in a hands-on workshop in the Makerspace designing and modeling chairs to scale using biodegradable packing peanuts. Middle and Upper Schoolers had the opportunity to talk to Amy about careers in Industrial Design.  To top off the day, Amy shared her expertise with CSH'S 8th grade Bus Stop Design Team in the art room.

After the students present their research findings, it is time to begin sketching preliminary design concepts.  Amy demonstrates model sketching, a quick and malleable way to represent design ideas in 3D.

Amy's scale model of a bus, some passengers, a tree, sidewalk and curb will help the girls visualize, ideate and role play with their own models.

Quickly assimilating Amy's tips on scoring cardboard and drawing graphic reminders of design concepts on the model, an 8th grader pens in a solar panel on her dome-shaped bus stop.