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This Wednesday I'll be hosting the monthly Baltimore Design Conversation at The Wind Up Space in Station North with the rest of the design convo gang and it promises to be a fascinating evening (City Paper picked it as one of their weekly critic's picks for events!)
The theme for the night is “invention” and we will look at how we can spark Aha! moments and create new creative connections. Invention will be explored from three angles: the brain, materials, and collaboration.
Image of Charles Limb by Marshall Clarke for Urbanite Magazine, Read an interview with Limb in Urbanite by clicking here.
Neuroscientist Charles Limb will discuss his breakthrough research on the brain as it relates to creativity and jazz.
Ellen Lupton, designer, writer, teacher, and curator of contemporary design at New York’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Inna Alesina, product designer and teacher, will showcase projects from their new book, Exploring Materials : Creative Design for Everyday Objects (a spread from the book is pictured above). They will encourage us to see everyday materials in new ways while expanding our materials vocabulary.
Rendering of the virtual learning environment in a Baltimore public school.
David Peloff from the Johns Hopkins Center for Emerging Technology will tell us how he collaborated with the Applied Physics Lab to bring NASA technology to the creation of a cutting-edge virtual learning environment being piloted in Baltimore public schools.
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Special thanks to the Baltimore Community Foundation for its support of these conversations and to The Wind Up Space for being our gracious host.
For those of you not yet familiar with the design conversation or D:center Baltimore:
D:center Baltimore is a new organization composed of a broad cross-section of disciplines and individuals invested in improving and encouraging design—in all its iterations—in the Baltimore region.
Each month the group hosts a Design Conversation at the Wind Up Space in Station North. The event is a casual gathering that is free and open to the public. It is supported by the Baltimore Community Foundation as well as the hard work of a core of dedicated volunteers. Each Design Conversation is curated by an individual or a team of people and is organized around a theme related to design, architecture, community building, urban planning, and city life. (For a list of upcoming themes visit the D:Center Baltimore blog)
Local and national participants are invited to address the evening’s theme in order to stimulate a dialogue among audience members. Since it launched in 2008, the Design Conversation has spurred creative projects across the city through a number of collaborations born at the event. It has also stimulated a recognition of shared interests and existing projects around the city and the country.
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