Design Conversations

Constructive Maps Posted by Sharon Haar, on Thursday January 26, 2012 Descriptions of the world’s informal settlements are often filled with two kinds of figures – images of families living and working in deeply impoverished conditions are matched with global urbanization statistics. Mediating between these two types of information is the process of enumeration and community mapping. MAPS, map making, advocacy, citizen, enumeration, community mapping, Hull-House, Florence Kelley, interactive websites, living project, Ushahidi, Voice of Kibera, local
4 Questions 4: Matt Webb Posted by Seb Chan, on Wednesday January 25, 2012 Here’s the first installment of our new series, 4 Questions 4, which poses four questions to designers who work primarily in the technology and media space. Our first guest is Matt Webb, CEO and Principal of London-based design studio Berg. 4 Questions 4, Matt Webb, BERG, technology, media space
Frederic Church Collection featured at the Met's new American wing Posted by Gail S. Davidson, on Monday January 23, 2012 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s collection of over 2,000 oil sketches and graphite drawings by Frederic Church was mentioned recently in the New York Times in connection with the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing. Frederic Church, painter, sketches, oil, drawings, graphite, 19th century, landscape, American, Hudson River School, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Teens Create Socially Responsible Campaigns Posted by Marianna Siciliano, on Wednesday January 11, 2012 One of the exciting aspects of Design with the Other 90%: Cities is the ability to connect the international themes of the exhibition to a New York setting. In our second DesignPrep workshop held at the United Nations, teens examined key issues highlighted in the exhibition. designprep, program, Teens, youth, Workshop, United Nations, New York City, NYC, social, responsibility, issues, international, campaigns, iPad, teamwork, proposals, John Emerson
Favela Chic Posted by Adriana Navarro-Sertich, on Thursday January 05, 2012 With the unprecedented increase of informal settlements, or favelas, and a large percentage of the world’s urbanization happening informally, contemporary urban discourses and practices have re-centered their attention on urban informality. Design with the Other 90% Cities, Exhibition, urbanization, favelas, settlements, informal, urban informality
Miami Memories Posted by Debbie Ahn, on Thursday January 05, 2012 Design Watch Members from across the nation met in Miami for a memorable week of design. The seventh edition of Design Miami/ featured the world’s leading galleries specializing in 20th and 21st century collectible design. This year’s expanded fair included 28 galleries Design Miami, fair, 2011, Design Watch, tour, galleries, 20th century, 21st century, collectible
Preparing for Art and Design Colleges Posted by Monica Harriss, on Thursday January 05, 2012 New York City teens joined the DesignPrep program this fall for a series of school visits to local art and design colleges. DesignPrep introduces teens to colleges and career opportunities in design. designprep, program, Teens, youth, New York City, NYC, school tours, design colleges, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Cooper Union
Eva Zeisel's Playful Search for Beauty Posted by Bill Moggridge, on Tuesday January 03, 2012 Eva Zeisel was 105 years old when she died on December 30, 2011. She was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1906 and entered the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts as a painter in 1923, but soon decided that she wanted to become a “maker of useful things.” Eva Zeisel, in memoriam, pottery, ceramics, playful, useful, Playful Search for Beauty
Design by the Rest Posted by Carolina Vallejo, on Wednesday December 21, 2011 What does it mean to be a developing country? Among other things, it means that the country’s future is to become developed, or so it seems. Design with the Other 90% Cities, Exhibition, Design for the First World, Dx1W, competition, developing countries, developed countries, problem solving
Power Tools Posted by Benjamin Bradlow, on Friday December 16, 2011 It is time to rethink the significance of design in our urbanizing world. This is one of the many things that I have learned from communities linked to Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Design can be seen as a political tool to support the poor to bridge the divides that exist in cities in the Global South. Design with the Other 90%: Cities, Exhibition, cities, urban, urbanization, Shack/Slum Dwellers International, SDI, Cape Town, South Africa, Philippi, informal, informal settlements, community, government, partnerships