Talks and Lectures
Reform Sustainability Seminar
Michael Braughart, Brian O Brien, Tim Allen
Update
The ‘Reform 08’ was well attended by the students of St John’s College and CIT with inspirational talks by speakers like Brian O Brian. Michael Braungart was disappointingly short and abrupt. The talk on Curitiba by Jim Harrison was enlightening as was the intimate conversation with the panel including Pat Ledwidge, Brian O Brian, Jim Harrison and Kevin McCartney on the future development of the Cork Docklands. The three way video conferencing was an interesting sustainable way to do this series of talks between Carlow, Germany and Cork. All parties brought a lot away from the event. It was such a shame there were so few industry participants. Many thanks to Orla and Deborah for organising in Cork.
Sustainability is a topical subject in contemporary society, so often however the rhetoric is overwhelming and knowing how to integrate it into our professional lives appears difficult.
The one –day ReForm 2008 Conference (run as part of Design Week Ireland 2008) offers designers (both professional and student) and those working in the design realm, the opportunity to explore new concepts and to learn how to implement sustainability principles into their daily practice. Lectures from a variety of experts will be linked with participatory workshops where pragmatic tools and skills will be demonstrated. The topics will include Cradle to Cradle thinking for designers and business, Sustainable Product Design Innovation & Sustainable Development for the Cork Docklands.
Parallel sessions will be held in both IT Carlow and the Cork IT where the expert speakers
will link in via video conferencing, this allows us to not only share the knowledge but also to
bring experts closer without the negative ecological impact.
- The IT Carlow venue will focus on Sustainable Product Design, Innovation and Product Service Systems.
- The Cork IT venue will focus on Sustainable Architecture/Interior Architecture and the sustainable development of the Cork Docklands.
It is intended that the mix of design disciplines will facilitate cross disciplinary collaboration and give designers and business people the opportunity to look at how sustainability thinking can be a core part of their practice.
For more information on Reform email: reform@designweekcork.com
Reform will feature:
PROF. DR. MICHAEL BRAUNGART-author of Cradle-to-Cradle
PROF. DR. MICHAEL BRAUNGART has been a professor of Process Engineering at Universität Lüneburg (Germany) since 1994, and he is also serving as director of an interdisciplinary materials flow management masters program. He is the scientific director of EPEA International Umweltforschung GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), which was founded in 1987 and co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) in Charlottesville, Virginia. He co-founded the Hamburger Umwelt Insitute (HUI) in 1989, as well. These organizations share a common set of values that embrace intelligent, aesthetic and eco-effective design and seek to optimize products with the Cradle to Cradle framework. Through these activities, Professor Braungart has developed tools to design eco-effective products and business systems and has worked with a number of organizations and companies in a range of industries. He has accepted a visiting professorship at the Darden School of Business, lecturing on such topics as eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness, Cradle-to-Cradle design and Intelligent Materials Pooling, and he continues to teach at universities all over the world.
Brian O Brien- Is a Partner in Solearth.
He is a passionate advocate of Ecological Design and intelligent architecture. Brian is originally from Co Cork and studied in DIT Dublin and Berkeley California.
Tim Allen- Life Cycle Research
Tim Allen is head of Locus Research Locus Research™ is a company that creates insight through a unique research driven approach to product development. Our process is holistic and incorporates technical, consumer, economic and environmental factors to deliver an integrated solution.
Click here to download the registration form
Cork Green Map - http://www.corkgreenmap.org
Science Week 2008 - http://www.scienceweek.ie/sw2008/index.asp
RIAI Lecture: Richard Horden
St. John's College Lecture Theatre, Weds Nov 5th, 6pm
Richard Horden - Background on the Architect
Richard Horden is an English architect and yachtsman. Horden became well-known in the Eighties for light simple buildings that used yacht technology and yacht iconology. His modern rectilinear buildings were part of the Hi-Tech style that swept England, key architects being Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Chris Wilkinson.
Richard Horden Architects tried to transfer the elegance of sailing and the beauty and technology of the modern aircraft into architecture, in a way reminiscent of architect Le Corbusier's extolling of the modern technology of cars and planes. However, unlike Le Corbusier, Richard Horden aimed for light prefabricated buildings.
European Millennium Tower Competition, Glasgow
Richard Horden Architects were awarded first prize for their ‘Wing Tower’ but controversially the project was essentially taken over by BDP Architects, Glasgow.
The Glasgow Tower brief required a 100 metre high tower. The Tower was to include a viewing platform, restaurant and exhibition space. Richard Horden worked with aeronautical engineer Peter Heppel, to design a vertical wing that rotated with the wind direction. Being visible for miles around, it allows Glaswegians to tell which way the wind is blowing! The Glasgow Tower was the first of its kind to rotate to reduce the aerodynamic forces on the structure.
Candy Collective: A Sweet Talk lecture
The Roundy, Thursday Nov 6th, 8pm
Update
The ‘Candy Collective C#1’ was sold out with 100 people (and a waiting list) coming to see Richard Gilligan, Alan Clarke and Ian Anderson in the Roundy. The gig had great contrast. Richard stole the show with his skater photography and gritty story that struck a chord with the Cork crowd. Alan’s true natural talent and witty illustration had people both laughing and inspired. Ian who was suffering from a bad man-flu really challenged the crowd and perhaps it was a general lack of knowledge and the lateness of the evening that left his presentation a little flat. Many thanks to Aidan Kelly and Rose McGrath for organising.
Candy Collective & Design Week Cork proudly present SweetTalk, a night of presentations from some of today's leading irish and international creative talents at The Roundy, Cork.
Website: http://www.candycollective.com/
Sweet Talk will feature:
Ian Anderson
Born in Croydon (City of the Future) sometime before England won the World Cup; now, Ian’s lucky enough to be here with you. Raised near Bracknell (Satellite New Town of the Future) from glam to punk he escaped to the fertile post-steel post-punk electronic Promised Land of SoYo™, North of Nowhere™ (The Future), where he studied Philosophy at The University of Sheffield in between forming Sexual Lotion / Bedroom Athletes (which evolved into Chakk / FON Records); DJ-ing’ promoting one-nighters, all-nighters and gigs, running mediazines Grey Matter &Voodoo Voodoo and signing Sheffield super group Person to Person (ex-ABC) to Epic Records. Tired of nurse-maiding other people’s creativity and on the back of DIY self-taught and self-initiated thinking and doing brain-stormed across flyers, fanzines, set / interior design and record sleeves, Ian announced The Designers Republic on Bastille Day 1986 as a universal declaration of independence from the mid-80’s-mediocre-media-blahs mainlining shandy on the streets of Thatcher’s Soho. Exploiting the conceptual freedom free-thinking and record sleeve / video game design afforded them, The Designers Republic established a reputation for cutting edge, idea-sparked, Brain Aided Design™ fuelled by their trademark triple-A –Attitude, Approach and Application. Searching out new challenges, relentlessly driven by something somewhere between the shock of the new, a low boredom threshold and a 10,000 CD music addiction to feed, TDR moved from outsider comfort zone into twisting and redefining the corporate twilight zone. TDR has been heavily involved as branding and strategic consultants in the extensive regeneration of Sheffield partnering developers such as Urban Splash, Deutsche Bank / Rreef, and Creativesheffield. Now applying bespoke Big Thinking Magic Dust to global (re) branding, sequential graphics, remixes and reduxes for clients from Coca Cola, Nokia, MTV and invitations to help rebrand Ecuador’s capital Quito, submit designs for a new Slovenian flag and brand Bosnia’s Ministry of Culture; to Autechre, Jarvis Cocker, Gatecrasher and Ian’s own Pho-Ku Polluted Rockers. TDR now Thinks Differently and delivers Big Ideas in over 15 languages to clients around the world in 80 days. In recent years Ian has lectured to over 65,000 people in Britain, Europe, US, Japan and Australia at events such as Fuse Berlin, T/Hype Rotterdam, Creative Futures London, AGIdeas Melbourne, Instituto Europeo di Design Madrid, Graphic Europe Tokyo and The Pompidou Centre Paris. Ian was visiting Interactive Multimedia and Design Lecturer, tutor and external examiner at Designskolen Koldoing Denmark 1997-2000 and has been invited to be visiting professor at ECAL Lausanne, Switzerland. He was the design juror responsible for selecting fellows and recommending fellowship awards for the 2003-2005 program at Akademi Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and has been invited to contribute to programs at institutes such as Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and Sarajevo Fine Arts Academy, Bosnia, as well as being external moderator at LJMU for the last 3 years.
Richard Gilligan
Rich Gilligan is a Dublin based photographer who has been shooting photos for the past 12 years. His work ranges from documenting subcultures, such as skateboarding to photographing items of lost property. He has been exhibited worldwide and has also had work published internationally. He loves the smell of film and is currently working freelance from South Studios in Dublin, mixing commercial work alongside his own documentary projects.
Alan Clarke
The Pen is mightier than the sword... and paper beats rock. Therefore pen and paper is a pretty mighty combination. Alan Clarke wields both with uncommon deftness, conjuring scenes of magic and whimsy, of the grotesque and the ridiculous. He employs a range of media but always with drawing as the bedrock upon which his images are built. His work is divided between commissioned work and personal projects. HIs commissioned work includes illustrated books (for example: Something Beginning with P, Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic, and the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.), Posters, pictures for newspapers and magazines, and character design for animation. His personal work has been widely exhibited in Ireland and also in Italy, Japan, and the U.S. He is currently preparing for a solo show in London in November.
RIAI Lecture: Patrick Mellett: A talk by the Architect Designer
St. John's College Lecture Theatre, Friday Nov 7th, 6pm
Patrick Mellett - Background on the Architect/Designer
Mellett Architects was created in 1986 by Patrick Mellett. After completing his studies at Bolton Street College of Technology in Dublin, Mellett went to Paris to work on the Musée d'Orsay and then to Milan to work with Ettore Sottsass. The Paris-based office has achieved international acclaim.
Mellett Architects have designed the Dublin Habitat Store, Irish Consulate in Paris, and the Podium design for the Tour de France. Patrick was responsible for trying to get the Irish government to purchase the apartment of Eileen Gray from the National Museum.
