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LEAP Dialogues

May 3, 2016 by VisionArc

In 2016 VisionArc Director, Landon Brown, was featured in the publication LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways for Designers in Social Innovation, published by Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design. LEAP Dialogues illustrates how the role of design and designers in society and the marketplace is changing. Why these changes are happening, what skills are needed to […]

Categories: All • Tags: careers, Design, impact, impactdesign, Innovation, landon brown, LEAPDialogues, socialimpact, socialinnovation, strategic design, toshiko mori

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Re-envisioning Branch Libraries

August 7, 2014 by VisionArc

Over the course of the next few months VisionArc will be working with a collaborative team called UNION to study the systems, challenges and opportunities for New York City’s branch libraries. Read more about the study from the Architectural League below as well as the other teams selected for this exciting study here. Lastly, make […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: architectural league, Architecture, center for urban futures, cuf, landon brown, libraries, new york city lpublic library, strategic design, toshiko mori

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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, […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Architecture, landon brown, oceans, Oman, Sailing, strategic design, toshiko mori

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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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AR 130: Ultradisciplinary Futures

September 16, 2013 by VisionArc

No doubt inspired by the success of their collaborative Arena Calcetto installation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, our friends Claire McCaughan & Lucy Humphrey from Archrival put together this piece “Ultridisciplinary Futures” featuring VisionArc and others for issue 130 of Architecture Review Asia Pacific. As it describes, the piece seeks to offer profiles of […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Architecture, Archrival, Biennale, Design, landon brown, strategic design, systems, toshiko mori, Venice

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VisionArc Brief 2010-2011

December 1, 2011 by VisionArc

Now that 2011 is just about on its way out, we wanted to take a moment to look back on some of our projects, preoccupations and ongoing initiatives- to take stock, as it were- of where VisionArc has been in the last 12 months or so, and where we hope to be going in 2012. […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: BMW, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Challenges, GSD, Guggenheim, Harvard, Japan, landon, landon brown, natural resources, strategic, strategic design, toshiko, toshiko mori, visionarc, wef, world economic forum

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VisionArc at Bilbao Bizkaia B Awards Design Festival

March 23, 2011 by VisionArc

From March 23rd to the 25th VisionArc will be participating in the first edition of the Bilbao Bizkaia B Awards Design Festival in Bilbao, Spain. Visionarc Founder and Principal Toshiko Mori will be presenting recent VisionArc research and design collaborations and serving as jury member for the Bilbao Bizkaia International and Regional Prize. Projects have […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Conference, Design, GSD, Harvard, toshiko mori, visionarc

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The Ocean Energy Institute

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the Ocean energy Institute to produce a report on the broader potential of its mission and programs.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: maine, ocean energy institute, renewable resources, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc, wind energy

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Brooklyn Public Library

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

VisionArc worked with the Brooklyn Public Library to rethink and remap their system of materials circulation in its Central Branch.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: brooklyn public library, circulation, diagrams, mapping, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc

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World Economic Forum: Re-map

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

The World Economic Forum sought VisionArc to design a plan encouraging new connections between Global Agenda Councils.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: diagrams, mapping, re-map, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc, wef, world economic forum

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Welcome to Visionarc.org

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

A couple of months ago we passed the one year mark since we began operating out of our New York office as VisionArc. We thought it was about the right time to create an online presence for ourselves. Welcome to VisionArc.org. The idea is that this will become a place to communicate our ongoing work […]

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