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David WalkerShort Biography: David Walker trained as an architect at the University of Bristol UK . His first career was in public housing design in London. After a period teaching in a school of architecture he moved to the Open University as a member of the Faculty of Technology in 1979. The Open University is the first largest and, arguably, the best Distance Teaching University in the world. There David was course team chair of pioneering courses- such as T263 Design; Processes and Products, and P791 Managing Design He was also a lead author on T362 Design and Innovation .Each of this projects is a 3- 4 year major undertaking: for example P791 took 10 person years and had a budget of 0.5 million pounds .Within the OU Business School David co wrote B881 Creative Management for the MBA. He has, in summary, 15 years experience of high quality distance teaching production (including print,kit,audio and video) within the Open University. He is the author of around 50 Open University booklets. He has published around 30 analytical business case studies. He was a long standing case writer for Cranfield University Business School. He is co author of Managing innovation Sage1991 and Creativity for Engineers Woodhill 1990. In 2000 with Robert Holdway he founded giraffe innovation consultants UK. Much of this work deals with environmental legislation through Envirowise DTI, a UK government department. Recent major giraffe projects include the 'WEEE man' and the 'Habbits' both for the RSA UK. Since the early nineties David has worked as a syllabus author and consultant at post graduate level on extended sabbaticals world wide - at ESCT Toulon France; University of Michigan Ann Arbor USA;DMI Boston ;UTS Sydney ;Hong Kong Poly U; Tongji University Shanghai. He has held PT positions at Brunel University, and the Royal College of Art as co director/author of PG programmes in Design Management In 2005 - 2007 he was Professor of Creative Industries at UCOL Wanganui NZ where he launched a new undergraduate degree and was post graduate director for the School of Computer Graphics for a short time. Since July 2007, he has been Research Associate at the University of Auckland working with Rainer Seidel and his team INNOVATIONZ. David continues to work as an independent consultant in the UK, NZ and elsewhere . Recent work in NZ includes co authorship of HUM Minds at work 2008 with altgroup . David has long standing research interests in visualisation, design management, innovation and sustainable products. Author's home page in this site… Latest content created by this user
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