RE:designing Everything

At the ICSID World Congress in November 2009 in Singapore, the theme was Design2050. 700 Attendees took a memorable round trip forty years into the future led by nine Design Masters and their studio teams. For an overview of the design of the event, click here.

At the Norwegian Design Council’s Oslo’s Design Day, on 17 March, 2010, Arnold Wasserman, originator of the Design2050 theme and Special Advisor to the ICSID event, presented a rapid fly-through collage of the 3 day proceedings. The Design2050 web site that led up to the Singapore event has been retooled as a groupsite to support the continuing work of Design2050 by DesignSingapore. It is now open to all here.

The first degree-granting industrial design department in the U.S. was founded at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh in 1934. In 2009, the design school celebrated its 75th anniversary by asking a few graduates to reminisce about their experience as design students at Carnegie Tech and what made Tech a special place in their era. In 2010 these personal recollections will be published together with a more formal history of design at Tech and CMU.

In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world. This is must-viewing for anybody interested in the educational, social and cultural future of America.

Be sure to view not only the main 9 video segments but also the additional segments: “Living Ever Faster in a Wired World,” “Sherry Turkle’s Extended Interview,” and “How To Teach Students in a Wired World.”

This is the best documentary I have come across to-date on the positive and problematic dimensions of the crucial transformational phenomenon of our age.

Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier

Ged Davis, one of the world’s foremost future scenario planners, was a keynote speaker at ICSID Design2050 Singapore. Ged could not attend in person, so he sent this provocative and challenging pre-recorded presentation.

Note this is a lo-res version:

Ged Davis Presentation: “Thinking About 2050″

Arnold Wasserman’s Introductory and Concluding Addresses at ICSID Design2050

My job at ICSID Design2050 in Singapore was to be the voice from the year 2050. In my introduction I looked back 4 decades at the initiation of Design2050 in 2009. In my conclusion I summarized how Design2050 became a global redesign movement over the intervening 4 decades and where we had arrived by 2050.

Here are:
ASW INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS
ASW ICSID CLOSING REMARKS