2.11.10 | Events
Scanning the Transdisciplinary
| February 23, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
2010 Stephan Weiss Lecture Series
Design Dialogues: Scanning Transdisciplinary Design
To mark the launch of the new Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design, this year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series in The School of Design Strategies is dedicated to the theme of transdisciplinary design. The series will explore the shifting of boundaries of design in a complex world. Designers are rethinking their practices as they increasingly confront a world in which the complexity and interconnectedness of its people, infrastructures, networks, and economies challenges traditional, disciplinary responses. Designers are increasingly designing businesses, services, experiences, policies, and even emergent social forms; and along the way they are inventing new methods, new tools, and new ways of conceiving design. This year’s series will include a diverse range of designers and design thinkers who are reflecting on these new conditions and envisioning future practices. Staged as a series of four moderated conversations, the Stephan Weiss Lecture Series for 2010 will present multiple vantages on the state of design today and the possibilities for design tomorrow.
All events are free and open to the public.
Transformational Networks
Tuesday, February 23, 6-8 pm
Theresa Lang Student & Community Center, Arnhold Hall, The New School
55 West 13th Street, New York
How are networks—global, immediate, and decentralized—changing the way we live, work and design? What are the possibilities and challenges of working and living in an always on, always connected global marketplace? And how can we leverage the power of these networks to transform lives for the better?
Yochai Benkler
Author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Anna Valtonen
Rector, Umea Institute of Design
Head of Design Research and Foresight at Nokia
Transfiguring Practices
Thursday, March 25, 6-8 pm
Theresa Lang Student & Community Center, Arnhold Hall, The New School
55 West 13th Street, New York
What are the pressures on design consultancies and businesses as the rules of the game are shifting in unpredictable ways? How are design-led businesses succeeding at defining new territories to work in and new ways of operating?
Andrew Blauvelt
Design Director and Curator
Walker Art Center
Marije Vogelzang
Eating Designer
Principal, Proef and Studio Marije Vogelzang in Amsterdam
April 6, 2010: Transitional States
Tuesday, April 6, 6-8 pm
Theresa Lang Student & Community Center, Arnhold Hall, The New School
55 West 13th Street, New York
Can design play a role in governmental and non-governmental delivery of things like infrastructure, education, and health care? What kinds of alliances and collaborations are forming to bring design-led practices into large scale social and technological services?
Natalie Jeremijenko
Associate Professor of Visual Art, NYU
Director of xdesign Environmental Health Clinic
Nigel Snoad
Lead Researcher, Microsoft Humanitarian Systems
Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation
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[...] “To mark the launch of the new Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design, this year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series in The School of Design Strategies is dedicated to the theme of transdisciplinary design. The series will explore the shifting of boundaries of design in a complex world. Designers are rethinking their practices as they increasingly confront a world in which the complexity and interconnectedness of its people, infrastructures, networks, and economies challenges traditional, disciplinary responses. Designers are increasingly designing businesses, services, experiences, policies, and even emergent social forms; and along the way they are inventing new methods, new tools, and new ways of conceiving design. This year’s series will include a diverse range of designers and design thinkers who are reflecting on these new conditions and envisioning future practices. Staged as a series of four moderated conversations, the Stephan Weiss Lecture Series for 2010 will present multiple vantages on the state of design today and the possibilities for design tomorrow.” (Parsons, MFA Transdisciplinary Design) [...]
Are you going to record these lectures? It would be much appreciated by those of us that can’t attend in person.