Until 5/22/12 Design Week NYC

Design Week NYC is a grassroots initiative that celebrates design from the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Javits Center to the satellite fairs, including Noho Design District, American Design Club, Model Citizens and WantedDesign. The goal of Design Week NYC is to promote, celebrate and raise the profile of design.


Just a few highlights:

May 20, 2012,12:00pm
Conversation series at WantedDesign 0
Material Glass: from Craft to Industry, from Product to Architecture “Material Glass: from craft to industry, from product to architecture”.
The Tunnel at Terminal Stores: 269 11th Avenue at 28th street, New York, NY 10001
http://designweeknyc.org/reports/view/166

Sunday, May 20, 4:30pm

Recharging Communities is a pecha kucha-style presentation of four amazing 2012 collaborative projects, tackling tough urban issues, from human trafficking to children obesity, economic development to green infrastructure, followed by a brief panel discussion with “agents provocateurs” from the desigNYC community, including Michael DelGaudio, Leslie Boden, Zack McKown, and Bob Balder.

RSVP on Event Brite http://designweeknyc.org/reports/view/175

May 21 2012, 8:00am

FitCity7: Promoting Physical Activity through Design

The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY

The AIA New York Chapter, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will host the seventh annual public conference to examine how design of the built environment can create opportunities for increasing physical activity and access to healthier food and beverages. This conference will bring together architects, planners, designers, landscape architects, developers, and public health professionals to discuss how design, policy, and practice decisions can address the key health epidemics of our time: obesity and related chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, some cancers and asthma.

Conference participants will hear how the strategies included in the Active Design Guidelines (www.nyc.gov/adg), released in January 2010, are being implemented at New York City agencies, in the private sector, and in communities across the world.Registration opens at 8:00am. Program begins at 8:30am. FREE 7.0 LU, 7.0 HSW

Download the Active Design Guidelines: http://www.nyc.gov/adg
http://designweeknyc.org/reports/view/174

Design Express Bus Service
And don't forget to catch the Design Express bus May 19-21.
Two buses on a 35-minutes loop from 11 am to 6 pm.
It makes a loop from Javits Center, 11th Ave at 38th Street down the west side to Walker St, then circles up the east side.
http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/designweeknyc/051112-WantedDesign-Postcard-SV2.pdf?utm_source=MEM%3A+Membership+List&utm_campaign=14824f5f8a-2012_Design_Week_NYC5_17_2012&utm_medium=email

http://designweeknyc.org/