Archive for December, 2009

Designing for the Future: From Singapore in 2050 via Copenhagen, « à la co-creation »

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:53 2 Comments

24 November 2050. Singapore. Planet Earth. ICSID Conference opening. The meta-interplanetary meeting of designers
Alok Nandi

ICSID World Design Congress 2009 Singapore and Co-Creation, Copenhagen, August 29 2009
Arnold Wasserman, the Master of Ceremonies at this unique gathering, invites the audience to cast their minds back to 2009, for a « flash-back » to how designers and experts [...]

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A Conversation About Thinking Design for Systemic Solutions

Monday, December 21, 2009 16:39 1 Comment

Interdisciplinary collaboration and rapid prototyping for design-driven innovation at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
It is widely acknowledged that design is a powerful tool for changing human behaviour and shaping our environment. This realization has revolutionized the design sector in recent years, not only offering innovative business models and opportunities for post industrial economies but [...]

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Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art

Friday, December 18, 2009 17:40 No Comments

Playlist, an exhibition on the relation between videogames, music and art kicks off this afternoon at LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creaciòn Industrial in Asturias, Spain. The exhibition will run through to May 17 2009.

Images from PLAYLIST courtesy LABoral
Playlist traces a paths through the works of those creators that, during the 90s, worked with obsolete [...]

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People Changing Places

Friday, December 18, 2009 16:27 No Comments

The collaboration that turned a city square into a giant interactive performance and forum for changing public spaces. 

Aiming to encourage engagement with the arts, cultural space and public realm, YourSpace a recent temporary transformation of Exhibition Square in York was the exciting culmination of a collaboration between architects of the award-winning architectural studio DSDHA [...]

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INDEX: design to improve life reaches another milestone

Friday, December 11, 2009 18:15 No Comments

The Danish humanitarian design program Index: Design To Improve Life, reached another important milestone on December 4 2009 when the network’s CEO Kigge Hvid took home to Copenhagen the prestigious Hong Kong Design Centre’s 2009 Design Leadership Award, confirming its position as one of the worlds fastest growing design organizations.
Kigge Hvid was the first [...]

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