Marching on to day six. Today learn, see, and experience design as an agent for change.
Today’s Highlights
October 18, 2011
Renewed Urban Studio Tent (RUST)
Andy Walker & Andy Heisey
Connelly Auditorium, 211 S. Broad Street, 8th Floor
Tuesday October 18, 2011
8:30am-9:30am
If nature were allowed to reclaim the land in the city it would grow out of the refuse of man. Our waste would be incorporated into its new life. What Andy and Andy are illustrating in “Renewed Urban Studio Tent” is an example of recycling the materials found in the city into a new structure building on the contaminated urban soil. Andy and Andy will be giving a presentation on the history of environmental art, their reasons for building “RUST” and display of a detailed model of their project. Light breakfast will be served.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Cafe Cret, 16th & The Parkway
Tuesday October 18, 2011
5pm
Express yourself with four-foot, adult sized ‘sidewalk chalk’ crayons. Big Chalkers allow you to leave your temporary tag on Philadelphia’s urban canvas while invigorating your inner child. Coloring outside the lines is highly recommended! Come out and play!
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
http://www.playphilly.com
DuPont™Corian® Dialogues on Design
Organic Insight of Healing Environments
Presentation by Barbara J. Huelat, FASID, AAHID, EDAC, IIDA
Marketplace Design Center, 2400 Market Street
Tuesday October 18, 2011
5:30pm reception, 6:15pm presentation
Healing environments center on healing the body, mind and spirit. Healthcare design must focus on our human qualities. We are part of nature and as such we respond positively to elements of nature. Organic design is not just a trend or style, it is design based on programmatic needs of healing modalities.
This presentation explores healing environments that embrace nature as the teacher to solve complex issues in challenging spaces such as emergency medicine, cancer treatment, and behavioral care. Huelat will further discuss today’s design tools of color kinetic lighting, special materials, interactive video, music set to water, fractals, and human relationships.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
http://www.designphiladelphia.org
The Whole Site: Muralism and Public Art in Context
Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street
Tuesday October 18, 2011
5:30pm-8:30pm
In recent efforts to push our creative boundaries and redefine muralism in the 21st century, Mural Arts increasingly partners with design professionals in thinking about the WHOLE space – physical and social – that a mural or community-based public art project seeks to transform. Join us in a muralLAB conversation with design partners from nationally renowned design studios, including Interface Studio and the International Design Clinic, both from Philadelphia, PrePost from Brooklyn, New York, and Thoughtbarn from Austin, Texas.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
100 Ideas in 100 minutes
Digitas Health
100 Penn Square East, 11th Floor
Tuesday October 18, 2011
6pm
Philadelphia has always had a thing for visionaries. Really, what other city would celebrate a guy who flew a kite in a thunderstorm? Our town is the birthplace of America’s first type foundry and the home of Mother’s Day shopping sprees. The truly unique ideas haven’t stopped there, and thanks to creative thinkers all over the City of Brotherly Love, they won’t be stopped any time soon. Ideas (Heart) Philly, a gallery-style event about the longstanding flame between our favorite thing (ideas) in our favorite place, will feature ideas from thinkers, designers, educators, writers and architects all over the city.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Suds, Studs and Stories
UJMN Architects + Designers
718 Arch Street, Suite 5N
Tuesday October 18, 2011
5:30pm-7:30pm
Did you know UJMN designs everything from buildings to interiors, exhibitions, graphics, signage and many things in between? Come visit our studio to see our full range of work and what is currently on the boards; meet our creative team and tour the office. Enjoy beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres while catching up with colleagues and enjoying highlights of our projects in and around Philadelphia: including La Salle’s Science and Technology Center, the Quorum, PSEG Energy and Environmental Resource Center, the Stoogeum, Liberty Bell Center exhibits, and more.
Free and open to the public.
It’s In The Bag – Community Building Through Sustainable Design
Center City District, Baker Industries, the Art Institute of Philadelphia and SA VA
Café Crét, 16th and the Parkway
Tuesday October 18, 2011
6pm
The Center City District wanted to repurpose obsolete street flags into tote bags. When conventional methods did not pan out, they had to get creative. What developed was more than just a reusable bag. Come hear how partnerships with the Philadelphia Prison System, Baker Industries, a nonprofit factory in Kensington, fashion design students from the Art Institute of Philadelphia and SA VA created a wholesale program, job training and sustainable Philly street fashion.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
http://www.centercityphila.org
Philly Works in Partnership with The Commonwealth Lecture Series
Philly Works & The Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 South 18th Street
Tuesday October 18, 2011
7pm
The Fall 2011 season for PAA’s flagship lecture series, The Commonwealth, kicks off with the organizers of Philly Works in a panel discussion during Design Philadelphia. Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich and Will McHale will talk about their experience spearheading Philly Works, and what they have learned about Philadelphia as a city of makers both during its heyday as the “Workshop of the World” at the turn of the 20th century, and today as a magnet for designers and makers in search of space, resources and like-minded creative people.
Panel includes:
Daniel Garofalo, founding member of DVGBC + Environmental Sustainability Coordinator at UPenn
Danielle Denk, Dendritic Design
James Moustafellos, Fox School of Business at Temple University
Moderators: Will McHale + Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich
Wheelchair accessible.
Admission: $5, free for PAA members and students with valid ID
Show & Tell
PhilaMade
StupidEasy Gallery, 307 Market Street
Tuesday October 18, 2011
7pm
Show & Tell is a conversation led by Philadelphia area creative teams. Three teams will briefly present three project focused on the creative process (from client services to mood boards to code libraries) followed by an extensive Q&A. Look for more news in August via @PhilaMade as we announce the presenting teams. For more information about previous Show & Tell presenters, check the website.
Free and open to the public.
Beautiful Imbalance: Screening of Manufactured Landscapes and Talk Back
The Gershman Y
401 S. Broad Street
Tuesday October 18, 2011
7pm
Jennifer Baichwal’s provocative documentary Manufactured Landscapes features Edward Burtynsky’s striking “still life” photographs of China’s industrial landscapes – factories, mines, dams, and more – to illustrate humanity’s destructive impact on land and environment. Screening followed by presentation and Talkback by Barry Vacker, Associate Professor of media, utopian and cultural theory at Temple University.
Wheelchair accessible.
Admission: $6
Tomorrow be sure to check out Not a Vacant Lot, Curtis Institute of Music’s Lenfest Hall, Gray Area, a hat making workshop, and The American Swedish Historical Museum and The Philadelphia Art Museum.
Special Report, 50th Anniversary of Nylon, April 1988. Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections
The University of the Arts president Sean Buffington, DesignPhiladelphia executive director Hilary Jay, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, photo by Jason Chen
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