Dezeen promotion: international style conference What Style Can Do is launching its very first ever occasion in São Paulo from seven to eight December 2015, with a series of talks based on problems dealing with urban environments.
Despite the fact that the occasion is held yearly in Amsterdam, the organisation is now set to stage its first satellite edition at the Faap Theatre in São Paulo. It will focus on three themes: WDCD for Cultural Consciousness, WDCD with Nature and WDCD for Urban Issues.
Faap Theatre in Brazil
Speakers like Indian architect Rohan Shivkumar, interior and solution designer Marcelo Rosenbaum, and journalist Tracy Metz will examine troubles in the fields of housing, mobility, food provide, employment, care, security, air pollution and power supply.
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“São Paulo is exemplary for the mega cities all around the world that increasingly entice men and women from the countryside,” said the organisers. “Currently half the world’s population lives in cities – a figure that will improve even further more than the next decades.”
A Gente Transforma by Marcelo Rosenbaum –photography by Tatiana Cardeal
“With so several folks residing closely together – 20 million in São Paulo alone – it is apparent urban society has to cope with a increasing variety of pressing concerns,” they additional.
What Style Can Do was founded by Richard van der Laken in 2010 in hopes of solving social troubles by way of the medium of design.
Marcelo Rosenbaum
“We commenced as a platform for the discussion of layout with a social influence,” van der Laken informed Dezeen. “Amongst the tasks we’ve noticed presented have been Fairphone, developed by Dutch designer Bas van Abel, a severe solution that should alter our attitude to throwaway smartphones”.
“Kees Dorst came up with ‘designing towards crime’, a strategy to make our streets safer,” he added. “These designers are amongst the several speakers we’ve heard from who have established that style has a essential role as a force for adjust, and adjust is badly needed proper now”.
Single day tickets are priced at R\$ 400 (around £68), while a two-day ticket is R\$ 690 (roughly £118). The two are offered to obtain from the event website.
Rohan Shivkumar
What Style Can Do’s Amsterdam conference took area earlier this 12 months at the Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam.
Amid the specific guests and speakers had been architect Ole Scheeren, graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and humanitarian architecture champion Cameron Sinclair.
Dezeen and Dezeen Jobs are media partners for the São Paulo event, which takes location from the seven to 8 December 2015. Uncover out a lot more about the conference on the website, and study on for more information from the organisers.
WDCD for urban troubles
São Paulo is exemplary for the mega cities close to the planet that increasingly appeal to people from the countryside to the cities.
Currently half the world’s population lives in cities – a figure that will increase even further in excess of the subsequent decades. With so many individuals residing closely together – twenty million in São Paulo alone –, it is obvious urban society has to cope with a increasing number of pressing troubles. Concerns in the field of housing, mobility, meals provide, employment, care, safety, air pollution and power supply. Not to mention the social challenge of maintaining up a sense of solidarity and connection.
Each technical and social answers are attempted and tested in cities about the globe. In several cases with some kind of involvement of designers. Architects, by the nature of their occupation, are considering thoroughly about the notion of the city and how they can contribute to make the urban surroundings a liveable area. But solutions may come from graphic, item, and digital designers and artists as properly, as WDCD has demonstrated a lot of instances and will show yet again in São Paulo once again.
Speakers within this theme contain Rohan Shivkumar, Marcelo Rosenbaum and Tracy Metz.
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