WHAT: A room full of talented people ready to rock. We will see individual presentations from the speakers and hold two roundtable discussions.
WHERE: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, MA. Check out the map.
WHEN: SPACE ROCKS will go from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, November 10th, 2007. MK12 will give a kick-off lecture Friday, November 9th at 6pm.
YOU: We want you to be involved! SPACE ROCKS will be lively and conversational. We encourage people to take part in the event by asking questions and postulating connections between the work we see.
SPONSORS: This event is brought to you by AsiaGSD, a student organization, with generous support from the Department of Architecture, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and the Harvard University Asia Center. Thanks also to Archinect, our media sponsor.
SPEAKERS:
Brooklyn Foundry's website →
Museum Plaza animation →
The Brooklyn Digital Foundry is a full-service digital media firm offering creative solutions for graphic design, brand identity, custom websites, computer visualization, marketing materials and video production. Most notable works include their collaborations with OMA/REX for a project in Louisville, TN and their video for the new Gucci flagship store in Ginza Japan designed by James Carpenter.
IDEO's website →
The New York Times on IDEO's Smart Space group →
Dana Cho is a part of the Leadership Group for the Smart Space practice at IDEO. She plays the role of the content lead, spanning multiple projects, multiple industries and enabling teams to create user- centered, innovative experiences for clients including Mayo Clinic, Nike, Gap Kids, Banana Republic and Stanford University. Combining empathic, in-the-field research with strategic design thinking, the projects range from creating the next generation retail experience to rethinking models of patient care delivery for the future of healthcare.
Before joining IDEO, Dana Cho has worked as an architectural designer for a wide range of projects, ranging from new materials research and prototyping for Kennedy and Violich Architecture in Boston to the H-Project Museum in Seoul, Korea for Mario Botta Architects. Dana Cho has also taught at the California College of Arts, Architecture Department, as a visiting professor.
Dana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Her master's thesis was carried out under Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, exploring alternative models o.f accelerated urban growth and production.
Groovisions's website →
An interview with Groovisions →
Animations on YouTube →
Leading Japanese graphic designers, Groovisions is a design group that freely expands their creativity in graphic designs, motion graphics, art directions mixed with music, films and fashion. Their work often whimsically lies between the area of commerce and play, their most successful project to date being “Chappie”, a sexually ambiguous mannequin that was first exhibited in 1994. Of other particular interests is their adaptation of traditional japanese forms of 2D-2.5D representation in both print and video formats.
Irene Hwang is an editor at Actar Editorial, a publisher of architecture and design publications with offices in Barcelona and New York. Prior to joining Actar, Irene spent three years working as an architect in Madrid at the offices of Rafael Moneo and Luis Rojo (Rojo + Fernandez-Shaw). While in Madrid, Irene also worked as a design consultant in both the architectural and graphic design capacity.
Since moving to Barcelona in 2004, Irene has acted as both copy and managing editor for several book projects, which include joint and in-house publications such as the Actar VERB architecture series. In addition to her editorial work, she continues to collaborate in architectural design projects, teach, and write a bi-monthly architecture column in Barcelona.
Irene received her M. Arch from the GSD and holds a B.A. in International Relations and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania.
David G. Imber writes for Casa BRUTUS and BRUTUS, two of the most influential design and lifestyle magazines in Japan, and, along with his wife Mika Yoshida, are US correspondents to the Japanese editions of GQ, Esquire and other Japanese publications. Together they have written, edited and contributed to several Japanese anthologies in the fields of film, literature, design, and photography.
From the artist's website: For over ten years, I have been exploring the world around me through drawing, photography, video, and mixed-media work. My work can be thought of as an archeology of the moment: a visual document of some details of everyday life, hopefully evocative enough to allow viewers to imagine their own stories of how things came to be the way they are.
I'm interested in the everyday - in the things that we see too often, and then forget to see. I try to pay attention to this sort of detail wherever I go, in both public and private space. My work is an attempt to make these things visible.
MK12's website →
Interview with MK12 →
MK12 is a full-service lateral hyperthreaded tactical design and research bureau. MK12 maintains adequate expression when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech. MK12 does not understand temperance fanatics or hole-in-corner philanthropists of any imaginable kind. MK12 provides antisectarian multiglobal theoretical conclusions and property relation guidance. MK12 is not a proponent of indignant accumulated labor or the maintenance of human reproduction thereto.
Theme Magazine →
Rain's website →
N. Rain Noe is a thirtysomething NYC-based freelance writer and industrial designer. He performs fiction readings at spoken word venues and lectures at colleges, typically to Asian student groups, on the subject of working in fields requiring creativity.
To keep rice on the table he has been an ambulance driver, a bartender, a furniture designer, a Trend Forecaster, an English teacher in Japan, and host of an online news show, among other things. He currently serves as Executive Editor of Theme Magazine and design blogger for Core77, as well as working as a freelance product designer and manager of a photography studio. He has written an urban dating column, film reviews, social commentary and design criticism for magazines in America, Europe, Scandanavia, and on the World Wide Web.
Whilce's website →
Whilce's blog →
Whilce Portacio is a Filipino-American comic book artist. Portacio started out as an inker at Marvel Comics in 1985. Over time, he was given assignments as a penciller as well. Portacio became noted for his work on such titles as The Punisher, X-Factor, and the Uncanny X-Men. However, in 1992, Portacio left Marvel to co-found Image Comics with six other high-profile artists. But, Portacio quickly withdrew from his partnership in this enterprise due to his sister's bout with lupus, eventually publishing his title Wetworks through Jim Lee's Wildstorm imprint in 1994. Other notable series that