Designers Accord Town Hall at CCA in San Francisco: Reflections and Photographs
Posted in: Uncategorizedpimg alt=”CCAtownhall1.jpg” src=”http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/CCAtownhall1.jpg” width=”468″ height=”1267″ class=”mt-image-center” style=”text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;” /emThe first student-led Designers Accord Town Hall took place on Friday, March 12th, at a href=”http://www.cca.edu/”California College of Arts/a in San Francisco. It was the perfect setting for this rainy evening, and the hangar-like space filled quickly with over one hundred design students and community leaders ready to engage and discuss their thoughts surrounding the timely topic of design for social change. Thanks to Stacy Barrett and Mike Funk and for the detailed recap and photos by a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/faraz”Faraz Shah./a/em/p
pa href=”http://www.linkedin.com/in/mfkekoa”Mike Funk/a, a first-year graduate student in CCA’s a href=”http://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/design-mba”Design Strategy MBA (dMBA) program,/a emceed the event and set the stage by communicating how this unique program is taking a new approach to developing future business leaders. He stated, “By combining the domains of design strategy, research, innovation, sustainability and finance, the program is helping to define a new framework for problem solving within a business context.” /p
pa href=”http://www.designersaccord.org/”Designers Accord/a Town Hall Coordinator and first year dMBA student a href=”http://www.linkedin.com/in/sofferdesign”Elysa Soffer/a followed with an introduction to the Designers Accord mission and a brief description of several upcoming initiatives including the a href=”http://www.fastcompany.com/1576191/what-would-you-ask-nature-submit-to-the-biomimicry-institutedesigners-accord-challenge”Biommimicry Challenge/a and the a href=”http://www.designersaccord.org/initiatives/school-by-design/”School: By Design/a youth mentoring program. Fellow dMBA student a href=”http://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedriaz”Ahmed Riaz/a concluded the introductions with a quick discussion about what it means to “design for social change” and the importance of continuing the conversation through Twitter by using #designchange./p
pa href=”http://www.stanford.edu/~kmd/”Krista Donaldson/a, CEO of a href=”http://d-rev.org/”Design Revolution (D-REV)/a, took center stage as the evening’s keynote speaker. D-Rev’s mission is to create economic growth for the impoverished by developing products and services that are reliable and cost-effective, simple, scalable and sustainable. She began by asking the audience for examples of bad design and followed quickly with “Bad design is unsustainable design and rarely, if ever, has the power to create positive long-term impact.” Krista went on to say, “In order for a design to be effective there needs to be market opportunity, design, integration into the market, and scale.” /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/designers_accord_town_hall_at_cca_in_san_francisco_reflections_and_photographs_16224.asp”(more…)/a
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