The Museum of Vancouver recently had a Design weekend, featuring more than thirty designers from a variety of disciplines, a Fashion Symposium and a Fashion Avant-Garde: Now and Then Fashion Show, organized by Kat Sark. Goals of the Museum include connecting people with each other and connecting Vancouver to the world. These were such dynamic events that helped achieve these goals and many others.
On Friday night, more than thirty local designers showcased what they do and why they design, here.
So much energy, talent and skills and all presented interactively. The space was alive with music, conversation, photos and people actually playing the games, trying out the drums, opening the wooden panier/briefcases, trying on the jewelry, unfolding the canoe, following the easy instructions for repairing things, instead of tossing them into the landfill, practising techniques for increasing community engagement, and infinitely more.
This is the second time, Why I Design has been featured at the MOV and I hope it will become a regular event, possibly even featured every couple of months. We need to acknowledge and support our local talent. I didn't manage to visit each station, but a few more I can highly recommend are:
Jean Chisolm and Janine Merkel - Hometown Project - hometownproject.ca: These two have put together a set of tools and processes for involving people, especially teens and older, in appreciating what their communities have to offer and celebrating these resources. Their projects are in Prince George and Medicine Hat, currently.
David Schreiber, Founder, Uncle Skunkle Toys - uncleskunkle.com, featured a wooden toy with drawers from which pieces were taken out, sorted - a highly interactive game that had everyone playing. It was a cabinet that would look great in any living room. Simple to complex pieces for all ages, forever, classic, challenging, creative, toys. I want!
Suzi Webster, Designer, www.suziwebster.org - "...wearables that investigate intersections between object and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context..." So I saw a fabulous white shirt with pink lights that pulsed to heartbeats - cool and captivating.
More, always more, so I look forward to the next, Why I Design, event at MOV. They are very different and remind us to see our museums and galleries as places to connect and celebrate, rather than to look passively at unchanging collections.
On Friday night, more than thirty local designers showcased what they do and why they design, here.
So much energy, talent and skills and all presented interactively. The space was alive with music, conversation, photos and people actually playing the games, trying out the drums, opening the wooden panier/briefcases, trying on the jewelry, unfolding the canoe, following the easy instructions for repairing things, instead of tossing them into the landfill, practising techniques for increasing community engagement, and infinitely more.
This is the second time, Why I Design has been featured at the MOV and I hope it will become a regular event, possibly even featured every couple of months. We need to acknowledge and support our local talent. I didn't manage to visit each station, but a few more I can highly recommend are:
Jean Chisolm and Janine Merkel - Hometown Project - hometownproject.ca: These two have put together a set of tools and processes for involving people, especially teens and older, in appreciating what their communities have to offer and celebrating these resources. Their projects are in Prince George and Medicine Hat, currently.
David Schreiber, Founder, Uncle Skunkle Toys - uncleskunkle.com, featured a wooden toy with drawers from which pieces were taken out, sorted - a highly interactive game that had everyone playing. It was a cabinet that would look great in any living room. Simple to complex pieces for all ages, forever, classic, challenging, creative, toys. I want!
Suzi Webster, Designer, www.suziwebster.org - "...wearables that investigate intersections between object and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context..." So I saw a fabulous white shirt with pink lights that pulsed to heartbeats - cool and captivating.
More, always more, so I look forward to the next, Why I Design, event at MOV. They are very different and remind us to see our museums and galleries as places to connect and celebrate, rather than to look passively at unchanging collections.
Muraco Wolfe - Jewelry designer and metal-smith
Karen Byskov and Jayde Chang
(Jessica Beketa and Shea O'Neil, not shown)
Repair matters - http://repairmatters.ca/
Four young women who set up a repair is important
resource to stress the importance of reducing waste.
Lamps and jewelry made of glass - iconic and recycling
and upcycling
Benjamin McLaughlin - Design Jamin - designjamin.com
Interactive, musical furniture - African designs
Kim Cooper, Founder, Kale Creative
From her series Journey 1.0, this is a briefcase, panier
to take professionals from work to home, via bike.
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