Design with the Other 90%: Cities

The exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," organized by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has just opened at the United Nations in New York City. We are pleased to present curator Cynthia Smith's in-depth assessment, adapted from her catalogue essay, of the research that took her to Asia, Africa and Latin America. Exploring innovations in humanitarian design, she found many examples of hybrid solutions that work "to bridge the formal and informal city" and to make the planet's rapidly growing cities "more just and humane."
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In the late 1980s a group of American photographers created the collaborative project Water in the West. For a decade they focused on what project member Mark Klett describes as "the one natural element that for over a century has remained key to understanding Western geography: water." Here we present a slideshow of images from the project, which is now being archived at the Center for Creative Photography.
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WEEKLY EMAIL: OCTOBER 26, 2011
FEATURED THIS WEEK : CYNTHIA E. SMITH Design with the Other 90%: Cities The exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," organized by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has just opened at the United Nations in New York City. We are pleased to present curator Cynthia Smith's in-depth assessment, adapted from her catalogue essay, of the research that took her to Asia, Africa and Latin America. Exploring innovations in humanitarian design, she found many examples of hybrid solutions that work "to bridge the formal and informal city" and to make the planet's rapidly growing cities "more just and humane." READ MORE
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY & MARK KLETT Water in the West In the late 1980s a group of American photographers created the collaborative project Water in the West. For a decade they focused on what project member Mark Klett describes as "the one natural element that for over a century has remained key to understanding Western geography: water." Here we present a slideshow of images from the project, which is now being archived at the Center for Creative Photography. READ MORE DAVID ADJAYE, JORGE OTERO-PAILOS, NIKOLAUS HIRSCH On Architecture and Authorship: A Conversation What is the relationship of architecture to authorship? Is the architect an author of a building or provider of professional services? Can we develop more nuanced understandings of the idea of architectural authorship that acknowledge the complex and collaborative processes of making, inhabiting and preserving buildings? Architects David Adjaye, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos met recently to contemplate these issues; we're pleased to present the results. READ MORE FROM OUR SPONSORS Being sustainable has never been so profitable. See how the country's most innovative companies are improving their bottom line by staying the course on sustainability. Look into Sappi's paper mills that are setting a new standard for environmental responsibility. Find out more about Sappi here >> Order a copy of eQ003 >> Download a PDF copy >> Around the world, designers are creating better communities by working with nonprofits and citizen groups to improve the human experience. AIGA's Design for Good initiative encourages and recognizes pro bono and social engagement design projects. Learn more about "Design for Good" here >> GEORGIA TECH New Interactive Product Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech Students will design, prototype and test “intelligent” products and systems at interactive workstations. The public is invited to tour the new facilities at an open house on Friday, October 28. Read more READ MORE JASON GRIFFITHS Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing In October 2002 British architect Jason Griffiths set out to explore American suburbia. He drove 22,382 miles and took 2,593 photographs, and along the gently looping roads he found mass-produced evidence of the durability of the arcadian dream. READ MORE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards 2011 Winners and Finalists The awards competition, organized this year by Zerofootprint and the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto, honors green building projects from around the world and showcases newly evolving re-skinning design technologies. Read more READ MORE DENIS WOOD Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas In Everything Sings, geographer Denis Wood and his landscape architecture students mapped a neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, finding poetry in the distribution of wind chimes and the mailman's delivery route. “What neighborhoods do is transform the common, ordinary stuff of the city — water and sewer, electricity, streets — into the real stuff of our lives,” Wood writes. “If this weren’t such an ordinary, everyday thing, you’d think it was magic.” READ MORE		BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK \| FOLLOW US ON TWITTER A totally unvarnished and uncoated look at what goes on behind the glossy world of print production. Off Register >> It's never too late to start connecting. It's never too late to start connecting. MFA Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts >> Go on, tempt the fates. Enter the show celebrating the best design ever printed on Mohawk paper. Enter here >> Learn more about Design for Good. An AIGA initiative >> PLACES ARCHIVE: WINTER 2007 The Lost Public Art of Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark infiltrated the worlds of art and architecture, revealing deep complacencies in each. READ MORE PARTNER SCHOOL University of Minnesota, College of Design The University of Minnesota’s College of Design is preparing the next generation of problem solvers. Through a unique commitment to sustainability, creativity and advancing technologies, the college is improving the way we interact with our world by designing new systems, new environments, new products, and new ways of living and working. Located in one of the major design cities and in one of the largest research universities in the U.S., the College of Design is a leader in multidisciplinary research, creative production, teaching and public engagement. The college encompasses the full range of design disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, apparel design, graphic design, interior design, product design, retail merchandising and housing studies. RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED American Glamour Alice T. Friedman Reading the American Landscape: An Index of Books and Images Lex ter Braak, David Hamers, Anne Hoogewoning, Erik de Jong, Frank van der Salm, Dirk Sijmons and Hanneke Schreiber Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City Richard Weller
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