The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) announced its intent to launch on June 29, 2008 the first “World Industrial Design Day” recognising the profession of industrial design to be observed the world over.
Throughout 2007, a series of events are being hosted in collaboration with various Icsid Members around the world to celebrate the inception of the organisation on June 29, 1957. These ‘Icsid 50’ events are a testament to the industry milestones of the past fifty years, as well as to the contemporary vision and forward-looking direction of the profession in the years to come. During the closing ceremony held on Friday, June 29, 2007 for the Icsid Interdesign hosted by George Brown College at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Icsid President Prof. Dr. Peter Zec announced on the occasion of the organisation’s golden anniversary, that the creation and implementation of the ‘World Industrial Design Day’ will reflect on both the importance of industrial design in our world, as well as on the organisation that has played a defining role in the development of the profession.
A group of 40 students from different universities in Germany, designed three temporary buildings for a diploma party.
Better known as the LC2 Phase 3 workshop, the assignment was to develop and realize a temporary building for the diploma party of the RWTH university in Aachen. The assignment was set up by Netzentwurf.
Netzentwurf is a web platform that exchanges workshops from several faculties and institutes in Germany. The platform allows students to both develop and participate in workshops. Students cooperated with this project came from Bauhaus University Weimar, University of Karlsruhe, RWTH University Aachen and the University of Applied Sciences Aachen.
The temporary buildings were built in five days, using only a small budget and sponsored materials. All pavilions were made of wooden slats with different principles of support structures. The flooring inside was made of euro-palettes covered with used fair-floors. Two temporary party pavilions were covered with transparent PP-foil and one was completely wrapped with cling film.
Coloured spots inside the walls ensured the buildings of a glowing and striking appearance at night during the party.
After the party, the buildings were deconstructed and recycled by the students.
MoMA’s ‘Design and the Elastic Mind‘ opens tonight with over 200 objects on display exploring the relationship between design, science and innovation. The exhibition focuses on the role of the designer to help the general public adapt and understand rapid technological advancement and the changing human condition in the contemporary world. (Whew!) Here’s the pitch:
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.
Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24 - May 12, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street (btwn. Fifth & Sixth ave.)
New York, NY 10019
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