DesignInquiry ’09

Topic: Design-LESS

Date: June 21 — 26

Place: Vinalhaven, Maine

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DesignInquiry 2009 Program Schedule

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DesignInquiry is a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in intensive team-based gatherings. An alternative to the design conference, it brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic.

Each year, DesignInquiry selects a topic to explore at an intensive week of presentations, discussions, and workshops. We invite professionals, educators and students of diverse disciplines to respond to the topic in any way they think is appropriate. We share these responses during the week, while working toward a publication that binds the outcome: a free-to-download boost of information, meant to inspire and inform its readers.

Our aim is to build an alternative to the one-way delivery of a standard conference: each participant contributes and is equally responsible for the content of the gathering. This is a week of collaborative production where we both learn and teach the aesthetics and ethics that are central to Design (and life). Days become nights; the program doesn’t stop when dinner is served.

Maximum number of participants: 24

Contact: DesignInquiry

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DesignInquiry 2007 Documentary Video

DesignInquiry 2007 Documentary Movie

This documentary video of the 2007 program shows the environment, explains the idea and offers a look at some of the unique aspects of DesignInquiry. (Running Time: 19:58)

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