The workshop for IAED 402: Interior Design Studio VI, titled “Three-Dimensional Design, Form and Space Methodology”, will be made on January 26, 2026, Monday, at 10:30, in FFB-22. The organizers of the workshop are Karen Stone, adjunct associate professor from Pratt Institute, and Münire Kırmacı, visiting instructor from Pratt Institute. All students and staff are welcome.
Karen Stone is former Director of Design for Knoll, Inc., responsible for the design of Knoll Showrooms, Knoll Retail Shops, exhibits and trade shows worldwide; for bringing sustainable design, new materials and technologies to Knoll product design; and for establishing direction for new finishes for Knoll products. Starting at Knoll in 1991, her awarding-winning design work spanned more than thirty years, it has been cited in publications including ID, Domus, Interiors, and Inside Design Now. She created a new line of products for Knoll Shop retail store and established the Knoll Design Student Internship program.
An Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, Karen has taught courses in Three-Dimensional Design and Furniture Design, she has conducted workshops at Bauhaus Universitat-Weimar and Tsinghua University, Beijing and Visiting Professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute. Karen has led projects with Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Keio University and Folkwang University of the Arts. She served as Pratt Faculty Advisor to the IDSA Student Chapter for 15 years, has lead design workshops at New York City High Schools.
Karen has served on the board of the Brooklyn Arts Council, has been a panelist for Design for Social Impact May 2016, Women x Design May 2017, and Design50 October 2018. She holds a BS in Industrial Design from Ohio State University, an MID from Pratt Institute, and has studied at Oxford University, England.
In 2018 she received a Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement from OSU, was a recipient of IDSA’s 20/20 Recognition, and received the Rowena Reed Kostelow professional design award in 2021.
Münire Kırmacı received a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2001. She continued her design education in New York, studying Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology and graduating with an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2006.
Kirmaci made her design debut at the New York city MoMa Design Store in 2008 with Salt and Pepper Shaker in One, a popular product that quickly sold out and gained her recognition in the design scene. Soon after, Wounded Vase appeared at the Guggenheim Museum in 2010 as part of an exhibition entitled Haunted. In 2011, she was honored by the inclusion, along with nine other designers, to exhibit at the prestigious Talents at Ambiente in Frankfurt, Germany. Kirmaci’s following project Co-Cane Walking Stick was invited to join the Arigato Projectin 2011 during Tokyo Design Week. The project and subsequent book published by Gestalten World-Wide were created to support Japan after the devastating tsunami.
Kirmaci has enjoyed the privilege of working with Ferhat Dorkip, Benza Design, Harry Allen, TZ Design, Chelsea Architect, Ralph Lauren, ASA- Selection, Pratt Institute, Birsel+Seck, Knoll and top museums like MoMA, Guggenheim, Walker Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Moca Cleveland.