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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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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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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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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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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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