From June 24 to 30 George Brown College, hosted the 2007 Interdesign Forum that ambitiously approached four separate design charrettes surrounding the issues of sustainable housing and water in the Greater Toronto Area. Groups of design students and professionals collaborated to find design solutions to four local challenges including revitalisation, sustainability, capacity building and resource conservation.
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Design for the Coffee Industry: Product & Territory
Icsid member, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia will host the 43rd Interdesign workshop from August 21 to September 1, 2007.
The Interdesign, entitled ‘Design for the Coffee Industry: Product & Territory’ will explore the role of design in the development of the coffee industry in Colombia. The workshop will address questions such as:
- How are economic production, the creation of value chains, product development, urban development, and the formation of territories interrelated?
- How are new territories built and new products created in this era of mass world market globalisation and of integrated world capitalism?
- What is the role that professional designers within such dynamics?
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