Matt Cavallaro is multidisciplinary designer living and working in Providence, RI. His professional practice is primarily centered around the management of two of his own companies, Nest Homeware and Ares Iron. He is open to consulting and takes on freelance work from time to time as well.
Matt is an enthusiastic teacher and has been a professor at Rhode Island School of Design since 2014. He has taught a variety of classes within the Experimental and Foundation Studies division and Industrial Design department, ranging from Spatial Dynamics and Design Principles to Cast Iron, Investment Casting and Machining (on manual mills and lathes).
His interests are broad and varied, and his personal work often reflects those interests, such as space exploration, archaeology, ancient materials and manufacturing techniques, mythology and primitive survival skills.
Studio: Spatial Dynamics is a studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena. The study of Spatial Dynamics is rooted in the necessity to consider forces and their effects on structure. Force is the consequence of energy. In Spatial Dynamics the energy and resultant forces are studied in actual motion, stability, and materiality. The structures of physical, spatial and temporal phenomena are studied through additive, subtractive, transformative, iterative, and ephemeral processes both analog and digital. Mediums and materials that are commonly explored and utilized have a broad range of characteristics due to their organic and synthetic sources. Most assignments utilize methods such as preliminary sketches and diagrams in research, planning, and experimental processes. Assignments reference the histories and theories of art and design and include areas of inquiry that extend to disciplines such as the sciences, music, dance, film, and theater.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
This course is a continuation of Design Principles (ID-2464) with an emphasis on problem solving and design process and skills.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design
