Art Center Design Conference
May 1, 2004 | bengisu
Art Center College of Design hosted the first of a biennial conference series at the school's new south campus last month, with an all-star lineup and an enthusiastic crowd. The event's theme, "Stories from the Source: Design Excursions Out of the Ordinary," sought to capture design as the essential medium in which stories are told. Tales of failure, innovation, social change, past inspiration and future vision were all elements in the storytelling.The conference served as the inaugural event for the college's new facility. Originally opened as the Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel-a joint venture of five aerospace companies-the 19,000 square foot facility served as a dramatic backdrop for the new South Campus.
Below is a roundup of some of the presentations-not fully comprehensive, but conferences are intense and unrelenting, and we had to take the occassional break!
Conference Program Chair Chee Pearlman sought to position the conference with a coherent theme of exploration and understanding. She tied together loose ends, talking about seemingly simple things such as innovation in the shopping bag (paper producers feeling threatened by plastic bag manufacturers; the introduction of the paper shopping bag with handles), and the oft-cited invention of 3M's
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