Be Open Creative Think Tank

Fostering creativity and innovation



BE OPEN INSIDE THE ACADEMY
BASEL, SWITZERLAND, June 12, 2012

TALKS EDUCATING TOMORROWS INNOVATORS
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY RON ARAD

BE OPEN TALK EDUCATING TOMORROW’S INNOVATORS

June 12, 2012

BE OPEN is hosting a conversation between renowned designer-architect Ron Arad and distinguished curator and educator Daniel Charny.
Arad and Charny worked closely together for ten years at London’s Royal College of Art, developing the master’s program for the Design Products Department.

Thanks in part to their efforts, many acclaimed designers have emerged from the RCA. In addition to their work with students, both have made significant contributions to today’s design culture – from Arad’s international architectural projects and ground-breaking design works, which are found in museums and private collections around the world, to Charny’s influential curatorial projects, which have helped to shape the discourse around contemporary design practice.

Ron Arad, Designer and architect
Daniel Charny, Independent curator and Director From Now On
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BE OPEN TALKS: EDUCATING TOMORROW’S INNOVATORS

Leading design teachers Ron Arad and Daniel Charny, who have taught at the Royal College of Art in London and Jurgen Bey, from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, winner of the BE OPEN Inside the Academy Prize, came together today to discuss their approaches to education. The talk was moderated by former professor of design and architecture schools in Berlin and Rotterdam, Lucas Verweij and hosted by BE OPEN as part of their Inside the Academy collaboration with Design Miami/ Basel.
June 12, 2012

Curator

Wava Carpenter

 

Wava Carpenter is a curator and programming developer specializing in 20th-century and contemporary design.. At Design Miami, she curated numerous exhibitions and commissioned projects and was responsible for, among other things, orchestrating the show’s programming, including Design Talks, Design Performances and Design Awards.  Formerly, Wava held a Curatorial Fellowship at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, working on exhibitions such as Second Skin and New Design from Israel.  She has also taught Critical Theory at Parsons The New School for Design, where she earned an M.A. in the History of Design and Decorative Arts, focusing her thesis work on the emergence of Italian Design in Postwar America.

Topics of discussion 

  • Is it possible to teach students to innovative and think creatively? If so, how?
  • How can educational environments prepare students to be successful designers in years to come? How might success be defined differently in the future?
  • What new paths are opening for designers? How is the field of design broadening to meet the challenges of tomorrow?
  • How are changes to traditional economic and social systems impacting the way designers need to work?
  • What are the most urgent demands of tomorrow’s world and how can designers help us to meet them?


Date&Time                                                                          

12 June, 2012                                                                                      2.00 — 3.00 PM, coffee will be served

Place

Design Miami/ Basel
Hall 5, Mezzanine Level, Design Talks Stage Messe Basel