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Tuesday, 9 January 2007 | Levent OZLER
Icsid Interdesign Workshop Canada 2007
This unique and exciting Interdesign Forum is being hosted by the Institute without Boundaries (IwB) in June 2007 in Toronto, Canada. In the World House Interdesign Forum, the IwB class of 2006 will share its research findings from the year and engage the international community in the development, refinement and application of these learnings in an international context. Leading design experts, design educators and students from around the world will join the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College to debate issues regarding the design of sustainable housing, water management, conservation and community development. Over the course of the week, participants will problem solve for a real case scenario, within the framework of one of four charrettes: capacity, sustainability, conservation, and revitalisation.
The objective of the World House Interdesign Forum is threefold.
* First, it will test whether design excellence can be built into a knowledge system that can address issues of global relevance (such as sustainable housing and water conservation) and be applied to local situations.
* Second, it will allow constituents from around the world to share the successes of their communities and workshop their specific design challenges using World House principles (sustainable, universal, balanced, technically responsive) and research.
* Third, the results of the charrettes will be developed into a workbook, case report and exhibition. The final documentation and exhibition will identify critical constraints and opportunities in designing, implementing and evaluating systems within local, community and global settings. They will also serve to launch the next phase of the World House Project - community development.
The World House Interdesign Forum is open to delegations from any country or region. Each country's delegation will include a representative from a design promotion organisation, a local designer, a design educator from a recognised design school and 2-3 students from that school. The workshops will be of interest to educators, community groups, government officials, and local suppliers involved in housing and water programs.
Well-designed communities and urban waterfronts enhance quality of life and drive economic resurgence. Water makes life possible, and no organism can survive long without it. In this Interdesign Forum we will re-map the flow of this fundamental resource into and out of our dwellings and communities, balancing its impact on other systems such as air, waste, food and energy. By engaging stakeholders from around the world in an open dialogue we hope to generate leading edge ideas around the design of these systems.
Applications must be received by May 31, 2007.
For more information, visit http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com
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