The 1st annual Contact Summit is a working festival of innovation where the net’s leading minds
and entrepreneurs can connect with the people who are building the social technologies of tomorrow.
The net of the future will not be fueled by ads, but by people solving real problems through distributed,
peer-to-peer solutions. [...]
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This lecture is part of Bruce Nussbaum’s Design At The Edge lecture series.
Bruce Nussbaum’s lecture on Design at The Edge is one of my favorite.
I’m not enrolled in it, but still feel obligated to sit in every Monday. Last week, Bruce mentioned to me that he is writing a book on what he calls CQ, or Creative Intelligence.
At Columbia Business School’s China Business Conference, [...]
Bjarke Ingels spoke at Parsons and presented his amazing works as well as a vision for the future.
See chunked notes for details.
Bjarke Ingels
proposing that we’re “not designers of 2d or 3d objects” but rather “designers of ecosystems” that
“channel not only the flow of people, but also the flow of [...]
LUXURY DESIGN + STRATEGY
For the past 16 years Parsons students have collaborated with MBA students from Columbia University to develop brand-strengthening design solutions for luxury companies.
This year, teams were chosen to research and design for Hermès, Bulgari, Maclaren, Loro Piana, Haviland. Each company had a unique case, requirements and goals. It is [...]
Part I: Remapping the Curriculum
One of Six Views of the AIGA Design Educators Conference
Quotes by Jon Kolko
Shelley spoke on “Described the changing qualities of culture and society and the new demands placed on design educators in driving specialization toward fields like service and interaction design.”
Christopher Vice – [...]
The first Service Design Network Conference in America took place in Cambridge on October 29th, 2010. Held at the Microsoft R&D Center at MIT, topics included institutional healthcare, personal healthcare, personal finance, and mobile interaction. The presentations and conversation also covered inhouse service design, service design as a discipline, and more theoretical models.
more photos at [...]
By Luxury Education Foundation at Columbia University, New York.
This year’s topic is “New Paths to the Luxury Consumer: Social Media & More”, with panelists:
· Pamela Baxter, President & CEO, LVMH Beauty and Christian Dior Inc.
· Michael Bruno, President & Founder, 1stDibs.com
· Emmanuel Perrin, President & CEO, Cartier North [...]
The Visualizing Finance Lab (VFL) explores the ways in which complex financial situations and dynamics can be explained through visual, metaphorical and narrative representations. The lab’s initial goal is to develop a vocabulary for describing illustrations and other visualizations of the recent financial crisis, and creating a searchable online database. These tools will assist designers [...]
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