Year after year, Industry City has become a premiere destination for the international design community, showcasing Brooklyn’s vital importance as a hub for diverse, multidisciplinary thinkers, makers, and entrepreneurs. In addition to the main WantedDesign Brooklyn exhibition in the Factory Floor and the Design Schools Workshop, IC Design Festival by WantedDesign will feature art installations, campus wide activities and IC Open Studios.
Camille Walala is a purveyor of positivity, expressed through vibrant color and bold pattern. Commissioned by WantedDesign and sponsored by Industry City, Walala will create a permanent monolithic mural wrapping the facade of a prominent building at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Part of Oui Design, an initiative of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and its partner Foundation FACE.
Bring your Young Designers for a series of activities with Project Kid and build houses inspired by Mathy by Bols designs. Founded in 1985, Mathy by Bols is an innovative company, eco-friendly combination of unique style and high quality manufacture creating kids room furniture made by expert craftsmen who work hand-in-hand with passionate designers. May 17-21, 11am to 6pm, free.
We have reached a point where all design must become conscious. ‘Conscious Design’ is design created from a space of interconnected awareness with a mission to help the natural world and our communities flourish. The exhibition, curated by WantedDesign, will showcase innovative design projects and products from around the world that not only push the boundaries of our creativity but also embody our shared responsibility.
Students from Appalachian State University are embarking on a project called “Conscious Furniture Design” working with sustainable development students to thoughtfully harvest and cut lumber from a 350 acre farm. Using this lumber, they’ll create prototypes using the Japanese philosophy Ma. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
The Biodesign Challenge is a university competition that pairs art and design students with scientists to envision future applications of biotechnology. Students focus on a range of sustainable theme areas including biomaterials, energy, food, water, medicine, transportation, and more. Four projects will be exhibited. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
This is an experimental shelter prototype assembled from interlocking plastic bottles that are intended for water supply in the event of natural catastrophe. The goal was to use the patented interlocking bottles of Friendship Bottles LLC to construct and test prototypes for emergency shelters and transitional shelters for displaced populations under conditions of distress and to create innovative strategies for material upcycling. The installation is the product of an architecture design studio led by Lydia Kallipoliti at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
As part of the “Bamboo for Paris” project, 10 students from EnsAD participated in a workshop on the valorisation of bamboo as a material of the future, at the Domaine de Boisbuchet, a research center in design on environmental issues. The students worked on the realization of bamboo pieces in the idea of an implementation on an industrial scale. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
It is estimated that by 2025 250 million metric tons of plastic could end up in the ocean. Our waste is unmanaged. Water, wildlife, food supply, health, climate and air quality are all affected by this growing and grave problem. As designers, what can be done? Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
The RIT Hope for Honduras initiative, directed by Assistant Professor Mary Golden highlights the partnership between Herman Miller and RIT’s interior design program to outfit a 12,000 square foot expansion for Hospital Escuela’s NICU, the largest public hospital in Honduras. The exhibition curates work from a multidisciplinary effort aimed at providing an accessible model of medical care for critically ill newborns with the goal of reducing infant mortality. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
Save our Souls is a response to the current global refugee crisis that the world is facing. It proposes the re-use of a by-product of this crisis which is the common life jacket to provide low-cost temporary shelters to help refugees. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
This exhibit is a colorful collection of hand fabricated furniture and textiles. Each year a group of designers led by Pratt Professor Rebecca Welz travels to Guatemala to collaborate with local artisans. We work for 2 weeks with weavers, woodworkers, leatherworkers, a shoemaker, a welder, seamstresses and a silversmith. Each year we create a collection of unique products, including furniture, textiles, tabletop ceramics and silver jewelry. Part of the Conscious Design exhibition.
WantedDesign co-founders Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat present the vision of three emerging French designers: Julie Richoz, Ionna Vautrin, Pernelle Poyet and the role of color in their work. This exhibition will display a selection of pieces by these three designers, all based around an original and inspiring color palette while giving visitors an opportunity to discover three French rising talents and their sensible exploration of color, its role in the creative process and how it connects with its perception when applied to different materials and textures. New York–based exhibition designer STUDIO M NY will design the Exhibition. Part of Oui Design, an initiative of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and its partner Foundation FACE
Can the sausage be a solution to reduce the consumption of meat and to increase the diversity of our diet? Can it make a considerable contribution to a sustainable food culture? To answer these questions, product designer Carolien Niebling teamed up with a molecular chef and a master butcher to challenge traditional production techniques and experiment with new ingredients – like insects, nuts, legumes, and flowers – to invent the sausage of the future. Join Carolien Niebling at her booth at WantedDesign Brooklyn with the butchers from Meat Hook for sausage tastings, talks and to check out her new book The Sausage of the Future. The program is presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland and swissnex in New York, supported by ECAL and Lars Mueller Publishers.
The Master of Design(MDes) in Product Design at the University of Arts Philadelphia is a two-year, 60-credit program that has at the core of its curriculum a focus on human-centered design and maker culture. The program explores the nature of materials, products and manufacturing from a regional and global perspective, using Philadelphia’s urban core as a laboratory for design intervention and innovation. On view at WantedDesign will be projects by MDes students in collaboration with a local metalworker.
DARKTIC presents the work of 12 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland, Finland, with the support of the VARPU research project. The VARPU research project provides technical expertise in Augmented and Virtual Reality, whilst we demonstrate our proficiency in Arctic Design with the combined knowledge from Industrial, Interior & Textile, Clothing, Audiovisual, Graphic and Service Design.
The Product Ceramic and Industrial Design Program at Central Saint Martins will be presenting current thinking, student life and recent projects at WantedNYC Brooklyn 2018. PCID brings ideas to life through processes informed by curiosity, community engagement, making and transformation. The Program is the recipient of Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher & Further Education 2013 for Product & Industrial Design’s contribution to the creative economy.
Soft Studio is output from the coursework of Professor Melissa Dawson from the Industrial Design (ID) Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Professor Dawson has devoted her career to exploring the intersection of textiles and technology manifest in functional product design. This selection of works represents a cross-section of work-product covering typologies from footwear to soft toys, home goods to functional apparel to healthcare and sporting goods, the student work is connected by a single thread: presenting ideas that move humanity forward.
The evolution and accessibility of digital fabrication is enabling the creation of products and product platforms increasingly customizable by the end-user. From furniture to prosthetic devices, Auburn University graduate and undergraduate students are focused on exploring such possibilities.
In Radical Times, the graduate students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts explore speculative pasts and futures to produce seventeen product proposals for the present day – each 3-dimensional manifestation of their year-long thesis, and each attempting to reconcile their points of view with their imagined, preferred states.
A creative practice needs space to create, to grow, and to thrive. It demands a world made better by art and industry and seeks out a place where a community nurtures and supports the realization of a vision. By offering a glimpse into the workspaces of designers and makers at Industry City, we reveal the heads and hands creating human-scaled industry within. This exhibit, curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken, will feature the works of creative people based at Industry City.
Drexel University’s Product Design students will showcase works that explore pattern, texture, and form with an exaggerated expressiveness. Focusing on interactivity within design, the pieces allow for the user to play with and explore the possibilities of function and form.
The Douglas Glass Series was born in 2007 during designer François Azambourg’s research at the glass research center CIAV in Meisenthal, France. For its 10th anniversary, François Azambourg and Meisenthal Glass workers have decided to revisit the Douglas Glass Series during a one week workshop to make numerous variations. Part of the Oui Design 2018 program, the experimentation around the Douglas Glass Series comes to New York where Francois Azambourg and the CIAV glass makers will collaborate with glassmaker and designer Leo Tecosky and the Brooklyn Glass team to revisit and explore new ideas to use the Douglas pine as a mold for producing the vases, playing with new scales and shapes. The result of this collaboration and the Douglas 10th Anniversary will be exhibited along with the original series produced at CIAV and documentation about the process.
