Diary of a Solutionista: Form Follows Idea: Anticipating Change

A monthly event series, featuring ideas that are about designing to accommodate change. Featuring works by Andre Dettler and yours truly.

When: Wednesday January 28, 2009, 7pm-9pm
Where: 394 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY
Why: Because the Change Platform is here!

This event should make for some interesting dialogue, particularly because the design intent is similar in both instances, even though the way they are rendered is very different.

Here's the full blurb:

With rising environmental concerns and steadily decreasing natural resources, it is becoming more apparent that technology alone will not be able to solve our most pressing problems, and that there are some fundamental adjustments that will have to be made to our social and cultural practices, and our way of thinking.

Many designers are electing to use the current challenges we are facing as a means of moving us forward, by designing hybrid products with an empathic eye on the future. January's exhibit will feature the work of two such designers: Andre Dettler and Trudy Miller.

AD: "As long as we do not always look for the product solution, I believe design "thinking" is the only way to efficiently resolve future complexities". (More info at www.adettler.com)

TM: "We don't need nearly as much stuff as we have. We just need smarter product." (More info at www.trudymillerprojects.com)

The exhibit will feature a grouping of designs that are built for change, from trans-seasonal clothing to modular spacecraft units.