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 [...]
DESIS Lab Presents Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series SERVICE DESIGN: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS With Andy Polaine Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY Service Design is more than the sum of its methods, blueprints and customer journey maps. [...]
Sunshine Generation
Bruce Nussbaum brought Ziba’s Karen Reuther and founder Sohrab Vossoughi to Parsons on Monday the 7th. They open the presentation with “The revolution is underway.” The presentation was based around the “Sunshine Generation” in China, young urbanites that grew up not knowing Tian’anmen’s square and have only seen economy growth.
Karen Reuther [...]
DREAM:IN Conclave
To read the common dreams of India and develop big ideas for business, policy, development and sustainable change, and work towards realizing them, leaders and design experts from India, USA, Brazil and Italy will be joining us at the conclave from 16th to 19th February 2011. The DREAM:IN Conclave will bring together [...]
Earlier this year DREAM:IN, an international inititative was started by Carlos Teixeira and Sonia Manchanda in conjunction with idiom and support by Bruce Nussbaum. See below for original details.
DREAM:IN is a platform for engaging local design expertise globally.
The DREAM:IN Project challenges one and all, to begin the creation process, not from people’s needs but [...]
More photos from preparation and the reception
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 [...]
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 [...]
