THEME
Design Interventions
Perspectives Shaped Through and By Design
The 2017 WYDF topic of "Design Interventions" was selected to provoke a dialogue examining the perhaps the truest nature of design. With a specific focus on how the forces of nationalism and globalism which dominate the contemporary world conflict, and how today's emerging designers are challenged to tap into new ways of viewing their processes, ideologies and the world at large. This was intended to prompt participants to explore how to innovatively and responsibly harness the power of design to proactively shape the future.
PARTICIPATING DESIGN LEADERS
Practitioners/ Educators/ Industry Professionals
Co-Founder + President, GloWD/ Founding Partner, THE SC COLLECTIVE/ Visiting Professor (New York, USA/Scotland, UK)
Director - Design Center/ Associate Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas/ Practitioner, Regeneration::LAB (Las Vegas, USA/Canada)
Managing Partner, FXFOWLE Architects (New York, USA)
Founder and President, Glenn Gissler Designs (New York, USA)
Founder, Veritate Designs/ Feng Shui Master (New York, USA)
Senior Account Executive, Milliken | Constantine/ Architect (New York, USA)
Principal/ Senior Project Interior Designer - Hospitality, HOK (New York, USA)
Principal - Interior Design, Environetics ( New York, USA)
Emeritus Professor of Design, University of Edinburgh/ Education Adviser (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Founding Partner, ESKYIU/ Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong/USA)
Chairman - Informatics/ Professor, University of Edinburgh/ Practitioner (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Associate Professor, University of Auckland/ Artist (Auckland, New Zealand)
Founder/Design Strategist, Design Connects (London, England/Ireland, UK)
Senior Lecturer/ Programme Leader, University of Lincoln (Lincoln, UK/South Africa)
2017 MEETING GALLERIES
Design, by its nature, must approach the world with new insights and interpretations. The World Youth Designer Forum (WYDF) is conceived to help to do this. Appropriately, in its inauguration, the WYDF itself serves as an intervention, while it supports designers to review design and their individualistic design interventions.
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