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Sur Center for Maritime Futures

August 6, 2014 by VisionArc

Oman’s maritime heritage stretches back more the 6,500 years. Its strategic position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, along with early advances in boat building, navigation and trade allowed it to emerge as one of the pioneering nations in seafaring. Today this heritage continues through the country’s active container port infrastructure, competitive sailing culture, […]

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yourdesignthinking.com

October 30, 2013 by VisionArc

On the occasion of the Innovative City Forum which took place in Tokyo on October 17th, VisionArc partnered up with our friends at The World Economic Forum and Necessary Projects to design a web-based crowd-sourcing tool to help launch the event’s discussions. At the event, members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Data, Design, Innovation, landon brown, toshiko mori, Urbanization, visionarc, visualization, wef

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Community Visioning

September 20, 2013 by VisionArc

The Community Visioning installation was installed in August, 2013 at the Poe Park Visitor Center in the borough of the Bronx, New York City. The installation was designed to provide members of the Poe Park area community and beyond, an opportunity to a weigh in on what’s working in their community, what isn’t, and what […]

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VisionArc + Archrival, 2012 Venice Biennale

September 10, 2012 by VisionArc

This year, for the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, VisionArc was invited to collaborate with Archrival, 1 of 6 teams exhibiting in the Australian pavilion, on their Arena Calcetto installation. The installation consists of a series of tall timber structures sited amongst the trees in the entry forecourt of the pavilion which house custom fussball tables. […]

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Visualized: WEF Design Council

May 18, 2012 by VisionArc

The World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils comprises 88 separate issue and region focused working groups. These groups bring together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders to develop and implement solutions to big picture challenges ranging from climate change to employment. Recently, the Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation asked VisionArc […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Design, mapping, visualization, wef, world economic forum

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Frameworks for Systemic Thinking: The Bay of Pasaia

July 25, 2011 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the Basque Government agency Bilbao Metropoli-30 to produce an analysis of an urban regeneration plan proposed in the Bay of Pasaia. Currently used for port and industrial activity, the Bay of Pasaia is a unique ecological zone within one of the few natural fijords on the Cantabrian coast. The regeneration is […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Basque Country, Bilbao, Design, ecology, ecosystem, oceans, Pasaia, remediation, strategic, System, systems, urban, urbanism, visionarc, Water

Teiden Kensaku

July 15, 2011 by VisionArc

In the Spring of 2011 VisionArc partnered with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design to brainstorm and develop energy monitoring concepts in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Japan is the only developed country in the world where household energy consumption exceeds industrial and business use. In […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: energy, Fukushima, Japan, Mobile, Network, Platform, Research, Resources, System, visionarc, world economic forum

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Design and Global Challenges

February 25, 2011 by VisionArc

In October, 2010 VisionArc collaborated with the World Economic Forum and Harvard University Graduate School of Design on a prototype for extending the Forums global dialogue format into the realm of design education and research. For the World Economic Forum at Harvard: Design and Global Challenges, a day-long event hosted within the Graduate School of […]

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