Hasta La Ideas

We’re really proud to announce that our friend and columnist Tad Toulis of Seattle-based design consultancy, Teague, will be chairing the upcoming IDSA International Conference taking place in New Orleans this September. This year’s theme, appropriate for both hosting city and industrial design, is Community. As Toulis outlines in the IDSA Call for Papers:

Catastrophe, whether natural or manmade, creates opportunity. Five years after Katrina stormed the Louisiana coast, and three years after the credit crisis tore a hole through the global economy–industrial design, like the city of New Orleans, finds itself ready to contemplate its future again. But as in New Orleans, where the conversation has progressed from mere recovery to envisioning a better city, industrial design finds itself contemplating what “can be” not merely “what was.” For both the city and the profession one factor seems to invigorate all possibilities: the power of community.

As all of us here at Core77 know Community is an integral part of innovation and we look forward to continue our contribution to the dialogue of our community. Congratulations to Tad and we’ll see you on Bourbon Street in September!

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