RCA - Glocal Product Design February 23, 2006

Thursday 23rd February, 6.30pm ?Glocal? Product Design

In today?s globalised world, designers need to understand how their design languages and fabrication strategies relate to specific markets. Who are they designing for and what qualities of industrialised products make them acceptable in specific local cultural contexts?

Speakers:
Professor Ron Arad, Design Products, Royal College of Art
Ed Annink, industrial, furniture and interior designer, and co-director of the design consultancy Ontwerpers, The Hague
Jurgen Bey, industrial designer, Amsterdam
Luke Pearson, industrial designer and co-director, Pearson Lloyd, London
Gioia Meller Marcovicz, furniture and lighting designer, founder of gioia, Venice and London

http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/news/shared_territories_lecture_series_3165.html

Shared Territories: Anglo-Dutch Debate Series

The School of Architecture + Design at the Royal College of Art is hosting a series of Anglo-Dutch evening debates in the spring of 2006 called Shared Territories on contemporary issues in design and architecture. Free of charge, these evenings give the public and students an opportunity to hear a distinguished selection of Dutch and UK based or connected practitioners discuss critical themes relevant to contemporary design and architecture. These include the challenges their disciplines are facing internationally, not just at home or in Europe. Individual events will tackle urban design strategies and procurement processes; the qualities of ?glocal? product design; pinpoint new directions in ?inclusive? design, and explore what happens when you put design, people, technology together and envision the future. The debates will be chaired by Lucy Bullivant, curator, critic and author.

The Shared Territories design series is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, the Netherlands Architecture Fund and the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

In addition to the series, lectures and workshops involving Dutch practitioners will be staged at the Royal College of Art in 2006. Details to be announced.

Tel: 020 7590 4322/4274
Debate venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7.
Please use Jay Mews Entrance