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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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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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Eco.Villages Congress 2013

September 16, 2013 by VisionArc

During late August 2013, VisionArc Founder, Toshiko Mori, and Director, Landon Brown, were invited to the Swiss alpine village of Les Diablerets to participate in the eco.villages 2013 Congress. From the organizers: “eco.villages focuses on finding a sustainable future for Switzerland’s mountain villages – and by extension for rural communities around the world – with […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Design, ecological, landon brown, strategic design, Sustainability, switzerland, System, toshiko

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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 + 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. […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Archrival, Biennale, Design, Venice, visionarc, visualization

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Aesthetics / Anesthetics

September 5, 2012 by VisionArc

VisionArc was recently featured in a group exhibition entitled Aesthetics / Anesthetics at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. The exhibition included a diverse group of other designers and practitioners in the field(s), all departing from the question below with a nod to a vital institution to contemporary design discourse. (Text from […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Design, drawing, storefront for art and architecture, strategic design, toshiko mori architect, visionarc

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Micro-Community Infrastructures, Helsinki

September 5, 2012 by VisionArc

At the end of May VisionArc director Landon Brown along with principal, Toshiko Mori traveled to Helsinki to sit down with a group of students from the Creative Sustainability program at Aalto University to discuss the notion of Community Micro-infrastructures and systems in their city. Over the course of the last year VisionArc has trained […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Community, Design, Infrastructure, strategic design

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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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04.12: Re:Think Design Outputs

April 19, 2012 by VisionArc

On April 12, VisionArc participated in a panel discussion organized by the AIANYC New Practices Committee. The event, entitled Re:Think, Design Thinking Outputs was held at the Center for Architecture and brought together individuals from various design Think-Tank groups to reflect on the following statement: “Over the past two decades the prevalence of the design […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: AIA, Center for Architecture, Design, landon brown, strategic design, visionarc

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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

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 […]

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Why Design Practice?

February 24, 2011 by VisionArc

When the concept for VisionArc was developed in 2009 we immediately focused on the ambition to locate design opportunities in areas in need of systemic change. Since then we’ve been fortunate to have had opportunities to work on globally relevant challenges where this ambition could be realized through formal collaborations and partnerships. At the same […]

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