Add an eventGlobal Design Forum schedule
Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Welcome
by Brendan Walker, Sir John Sorrell and Professor Jeremy Till
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Design/Global
by Anab Jain, Anders Byriel, Christine Losecaat, Ellen Kiss and Alberto Alessi
Our speakers explore a world in which multinational corporations and the world wide web conspire to render idea, brand, product and service meaningful for the ‘global market’, while a strong current of opinion places the emphasis on the individual, the local and the personal. How can design contribute to a creative confluence of these apparently inimical trends?
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Design/Conversation #1
by Thomas Heatherwick, Aidan Walker and daniel charny
Thomas Heatherwick, multi-disciplinary designer, artist and architect, with Daniel Charny, curator, industrial designer and educator
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Design/Digital
by Tom Dixon Studio, matthew d siskin, Ben Terrett, Charles Leadbeater and Tom Cheshire
The ‘digital space’ holds another apparent conflict for design, which just may turn out to be the starting point of a happy marriage. Digital technologies are our everyday tools, influencing every imaginable area of life, work and recreation – but it’s not yet apparent how their ubiquity supports the need for sustainable production and consumption. The panel explores how industry, politics and entertainment are changing in the digital age, and what this means for the ‘connected society’.
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Design/Business
by Doug Richard, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, Frank Stephenson, Kathryn Firth, Mirkku Kullberg and Sarah Wyse
It wasn’t always like this; design’s inextricable relationship with business, in the UK at least, came much later than its affect on our cultural, political and social awareness. Rushing headlong into redefining the character of commerce itself, we muster evidence that although design is crucial to that redefinition, it continues to sharpen the competitive edge in business models old and new.
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Design/Innovation
by Yves Behar, Richard Seymour, Monica Dalla Riva, Mat Hunter and Deborah Dawton
Closely allied with the business process, innovation in design means much more than another idea to make more money more quickly. This session gets to the heart of the complex relationship between companies and ideas, and examines how a business can benefit from blue sky thinking while keeping its metaphorical feet firmly on the ground.
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Design/Thinking
by Astro Teller, John Thackara, morag myerscough, Paul Priestman and Tom Hulme
For the last panel session of the day, we asked a disparate collection of design luminaries, all renowned for their individual and original take on design’s roots and responsibilities in the world at large, to give a first-hand demonstration of ‘design thinking’ by explaining… what they have been thinking.
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Design/Conversation #2
by Zaha Hadid and joseph grima
Zaha Hadid, architect, in conversation with Joseph Grima, Editor of Domus
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Summary and Conclusions