Events

Design Revolution Road Show: Design+Business+Social Impact

Lecture, Workshop & Exhibit

Speaker(s): Emily Pilloton

Date & Time: Mar 29, 2010 12:15 PM - 1 PM

Location
Cleveland Institute of Art
Gund Bldg (next to PBL), Aiken Auditorium
Cleveland, OH
United States

Lecture, 12:15-1pm
Workshop, 1-2:30pm*
Exhibit (in Airstream located in CIA parking lot): 9-5pm

*RSVP required for workshop only.

The Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing “product design that empowers” to 35 high schools and university design programs across the nation. The featured work merges design with creative solutions in medicine, engineering and business.

A Project H Design initiative, the road show will feature an Airstream trailer exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions that have been showcased in the book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.

The programming will bring the evidence of and tools for design for social impact to the doorsteps of students, with the ultimate goal of enabling and empowering the next generation of creative problem-solvers to apply their skills to the world’s most pressing problems and improve life on a global scale.

This event is a collaboration between Cleveland Institute of Art, Kent State University's Center for Urban Design Collaborative and Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

Contact Information:

Matt Beckwith
Designer-in-Residence, CIA
mbeckwith@cia.edu

Mackenzie King
1st Year Chair, Student & Academic Affairs, GBSA-WSOM
mackenzie.king@case.edu