TY - BOOK
T1 - Design Feeds the Planet
AU - Milligan, Andrew
AU - Van Geetsom, Nansi
AU - Collins, David
AU - Fassi, Davide
AU - Gavin, Giuliano
AU - Gong, Miaosen
AU - Meyer, Marion
N1 - Andy Milligan is an international coordinator and co-editor of GIDE the Group for International Design Education. GIDE is an international network of art & design institutions who have, since 2003, collaborated annually in an EU city and delivered shared project themes which integrate flexibly into art school and university curricula. GIDE exists to enrich the creative and intercultural experiences of students’ and staff by providing regular interdisciplinary symposia, workshops, exhibitions and publications designed to help students engage with ethical design challenges and in operating effectively in future, global markets. As a model of engagement, GIDE offers a far more effective, democratic and academically integrated alternative to Erasmus by reaching greater numbers of student’s (and staff) through exciting events which encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge exchange and the sharing of design methods and creative processes. A core feature of any GIDE experience involves ethical and site-specific projects which address societal challenges in collaboration with sponsors, local industry, researchers and creative & cultural organisations linked to the host city in which the workshop event occurs. GIDE currently consists of eight partner institutions (in alphabetical order) from leading schools in;
Dundee, (Scotland)
Wuxi, (China)
Ljubljana, (Slovenia)
Leeds, (England)
Mechelen, (Belgium)
Magdeburg, (Germany)
Milano, (Italy)
Lugano, (Switzerland)
Each institutions nominates an International Coordinator for that country to contribute to strategic planning of events and exchanges. Recent GIDE guest schools and professors have also included collaboration with:
UNTexas, College of Visual Arts (USA)
Ryerson, School of Interior Design, Toronto, (Canada)
AKV|St.Joost, School of Fine Art and Design, Breda, (Netherlands)
PY - 2015/10/23
Y1 - 2015/10/23
N2 - “Design Feeds the Planet” continues GIDE’s ethos of delivering dynamic interdisciplinary and intercultural experiences that reflect the ethical, social and cultural dimensions of 21st C design education. Food security is widely accepted as a critical global challenge filtering into the research strategies of global institutions. As a sustainable issues, how we feed the planet is embodied in the 2015 Milan EXPO, (the 34th universal EXPO and its core theme os “Feeding the planet, energy for life” drives new global scenarios focused on health, wellbeing and food security, and is expressed through tangible architectural touch-points, exhibition and design. But the relationships between the growth of food and the growth of cities is relatively new. How might we introduce such security issues to future generations of practicing designers’? GIDE annually brings together students, academics, researchers and stakeholders together to investigate contemporary social-ethical-cultural problems through intercultural design collaboration. From February 2014 till October 2015 students and educators, from eight countries worked on (local) food-related design concepts across a range of city sites – conceptualised as ‘urban left-overs’ to reflect the theme “Design Feeds the Planet”. The intellectual edge and the research thrust driving the GIDE Mechelen workshop week (in Feb 2014) was delivered by key note Carolyne Steele, author of ‘Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives’. This e-publication represents outcomes from interior architecture / design, visual communication, industrial design, interaction and service design related disciplines from the eight GIDE partner schools’. It outlines the research themes driving the collaboration and discusses the creative responses initially triggered at the experimental workshop hosted by the Interior Design, Thomas More University College Mechelen, Belgium in Feb 2014..
AB - “Design Feeds the Planet” continues GIDE’s ethos of delivering dynamic interdisciplinary and intercultural experiences that reflect the ethical, social and cultural dimensions of 21st C design education. Food security is widely accepted as a critical global challenge filtering into the research strategies of global institutions. As a sustainable issues, how we feed the planet is embodied in the 2015 Milan EXPO, (the 34th universal EXPO and its core theme os “Feeding the planet, energy for life” drives new global scenarios focused on health, wellbeing and food security, and is expressed through tangible architectural touch-points, exhibition and design. But the relationships between the growth of food and the growth of cities is relatively new. How might we introduce such security issues to future generations of practicing designers’? GIDE annually brings together students, academics, researchers and stakeholders together to investigate contemporary social-ethical-cultural problems through intercultural design collaboration. From February 2014 till October 2015 students and educators, from eight countries worked on (local) food-related design concepts across a range of city sites – conceptualised as ‘urban left-overs’ to reflect the theme “Design Feeds the Planet”. The intellectual edge and the research thrust driving the GIDE Mechelen workshop week (in Feb 2014) was delivered by key note Carolyne Steele, author of ‘Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives’. This e-publication represents outcomes from interior architecture / design, visual communication, industrial design, interaction and service design related disciplines from the eight GIDE partner schools’. It outlines the research themes driving the collaboration and discusses the creative responses initially triggered at the experimental workshop hosted by the Interior Design, Thomas More University College Mechelen, Belgium in Feb 2014..
KW - food
KW - cities
KW - future
KW - Internalisation
KW - interiors
KW - urban left-overs
M3 - Anthology
BT - Design Feeds the Planet
PB - GIDE Group for International Design Education
CY - Mechelen, Belgium
ER -
