Automotive design expert Richard Barrett
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British Council China 2013

Automotive design expert Richard Barrett delivers a series of car inspired presentations in a motor-themed month for East China

With the Formula One Grand Prix as well as the Shanghai Motor Show coming to East China, Smart Talk brought automotive design expert Richard Barrett to deliver a series of car inspired presentations.

Dr Richard Barrett is the Associate Head of Industrial and Automotive Design at Coventry University; his department is highly regarded in the UK and his student’s car designs were also showcased at the Shanghai Motor Show. Richard himself has collaborated with a diverse, wide range of companies and institutions, including automobile manufacturers Ford, Nissan, SAIC and Bentley, the British National Health Service (NHS), Electrolux, Xerox, Hitachi and Herman Miller.