Ronald Jones_

Monday April 4 2005

Ronald Jones is an ciritc, artist, professor and innovator. As a principle at o-b-o-k (ord, bilder, objekt and kunskap), an office for experience design he formed with Laurie Haycock Makela, Jones provides cross-discipline research, creative development, and experience design through the integration of writing, art, design, and history.

At the Center, Jones presented a lecture "Next to Torture, Art Persuades Most."


Ronald Jones is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden, and is on the Visiting Faculty at the Staatliche Hochschule Fuer Bildende Kunste, Staedelschule Frankfurt, Germany, and The School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Jones also served as the first Provost at Art Center College of Design where he guided the design and implementation of a new transdisciplinary curriculum for the College. He came to Art Center from Columbia University, where he was Professor of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts, and Co-Director of the Interactive Design Lab. Before joining the faculty at Columbia, Jones was Senior Critic at the School of Art, Yale University for nine years. He has also served on the faculty of The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, The Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, New York, among others.