Cause/Effect:Design As Change Agent

Cause/Effect:Design As Change Agent is one-day event that looks at the intersection of design and social responsibility in its current and historical contexts. When designers respond to local and global crises, design becomes their causal force and change their endgame. In this arena, good design is held to breath-takingly high standards. It is judged instantly ineffectual if it only serves as aesthetic anesthesia and fundamentally flawed if it does not garner real-time results. A wide range of creative practitioners will demonstrate how they have embraced this challenge, tackling the causality of reform in their work while keeping their formalist integrity intact. Join them for an inspiring examination of accountable design that embodies the beautiful solution, the intentionally humane and the ethically sound.

Moderator
Steven Heller

Confirmed Speakers
Marc Alt
Frank Baseman
Nicholas Blechman
Seymour Chwast
Carin Goldberg
Chris Hacker
Randy Hunt
Alan Jacobson
Kristin Johnson
Jacqueline Khiu
Seth Labenz
Bobby Martin
Lara McCormick
Phil Patton
Mark Randall
Roy Rub
Haruko Smith
Scott Stowell
Lisa Strausfeld

TIME AND PLACE
Saturday 15 December 2007 8:00AM–6:30PM
Tishman Auditorium
The New School
66 West 12th Street
Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

Register HERE!