Hasta La Ideas

Tonight, Core77 welcomes Geoloqi for our bi-weekly creative speaker series: The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Geoloqi is a geo-location tagging app created by cyborg anthropologist and Curiosity Club alum Amber Case and Aaron Parecki. Come early and check out our shop or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Tuesday, April 5
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209
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“Ambient Location Apps and the Future of the Interface”

Wouldn’t it be nice if your colleague’s phone could SMS its location to you? If you know position and velocity, you know when they’ll arrive. The result: the interface disappears. No redundant actions or queries. The same software could turn your lights on as you approach the house. Or automatically “check in” to certain locations for you. Or leave a note for yourself the next time you’re at the store.

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Where can you attend a conference keynoted by architect Rem Koolhaas, sample locally brewed kombucha under a colorful canopy, take a flashlight tour of metal plates engraved by Italian masters, see Chinatown by bike, check out a new mural by Mary Heilmann, and leave with a rooftop garden ready for planting? The Festival of Ideas for the New City, a collaborative initiative announced today by the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the hundreds of downtown New York organizations that have signed on to participate.

“Three years ago, when we moved to the Bowery, we witnessed a dramatic transformation of this neighborhood,” said New Museum director Lisa Phillips at a press briefing held this morning at the institution’s SANAA-designed home (which somehow manages to look even cooler beneath a steady drizzle). Conversations between Museum staffers and neighboring organizations including the Architectural League, the Cooper Union, the Drawing Center, and Storefront for Art and Architecture soon developed into the two-year planning process for a festival that would, according to Phillips, “harness the power of the creative community to reimagine the city.”

Artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, and the public are invited to take part in the free festival, which will run from May 4 through May 8 in locations around downtown Manhattan. Things kick off with a three-day slate of symposia, lectures, and workshops exploring “big ideas that change the course of a city.” In addition to Koolhaas, the organizers have secured computer scientist Jaron Lanier and Antanas Mockus, a former mayor of Bogotá, Columbia, to give keynote addresses. Other panelists include architect Elizabeth Diller, Urban Genome Project founder Pedro Reyes, and Pennsylvania politician John Fetterman, who was recently dubbed “Mayor of Rust” by The New York Times Magazine. “Interestingly enough, he’ll be driving here, which I think is kind of great,” said New Museum curator Richard Flood at today’s press briefing.
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The University of the Art’s Corzo Center for the Creative Economy in Philadelphia partnered with DesignPhiladelphia to present a five-part free lecture series, Periodic Lectures on Design. Five leading and influential designers and design thinkers will discuss today’s innovative and exciting design world. “There’s a growing and palpable design energy in Philadelphia. Through programs like this, we want to foster design discussions that bring together the University’s design community and the creative and business innovators throughout the region,” says Chris Garvin, a University of the Arts dean.

Check the jump for details on upcoming lectures with Matt Owens, Ellen Lupton and Tucker Viemeister!

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Remember back around this time in 2009 how bummed Frank Gehry seemed to be about turning 80? Granted, that’s right as the architecture industry was struggling through one of its worst periods in decades, and in turn wasn’t treating the starchitect too well at all either. Between canceled projects and mass layoffs, it likely would have been a rough patch for most anyone. But what a different a couple of years makes, huh? The good people at Curbed have info on and a handful of photos from Gehry’s 82nd birthday bash. Held at the top of the Manhattan building baring his name, the Nicolai Ouroussoff-melting New York by Gehry, the guests included Bono and Ali Hewson, director Mike Nichols, artist Chuck Close, fellow starchitect Robert A.M. Stern, and many others. And in at least half the photos, he’s even offering up a big smile. So bravo for happier days and here’s to many more.

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Hey Mayor Bloomberg, doesn’t “Tim Brown Day” have a nice ring to it? The IDEO president and CEO (pictured) is in New York today to accept the first annual Havemeyer Award, an honor established by the local chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers’ Education Legacy Fund (ELF) in honor of Metropolis founder and publisher Horace Havemeyer III. At the direction of Havemeyer, the award will recognize “a major contributor to the global conversation about design and its growing importance.” First up is Mr. Design Thinking himself—Brown—who receives the award from its namesake tonight at “State of Design,” an event sponsored by ELF and Metropolis. Brown will chat with MASS Design Group cofounder Michael Murphy and Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy about what shapes twenty-first century design and how designers respond to our evolving culture.

In other IDEO-related event news, Bill Moggridge, co-founder of the global design firm and now director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will sit down with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley to discuss the role of the revolutionary video sharing platform within the changing world of mainstream media (see also: Moggridge’s new book, Designing Media). And fear not, non-New Yorkers, the museum has announced that this installment of “Bill Design’s Talks” will be webcast. Tune in here at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, to watch the event live. But be careful: watching an online video about the role of online video may make your brain explode.

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