activate the differences

Exploring Design : thinking & making in a changing world
02.17.08 : chicago : art institute, fullerton hall

Moderated by Ben Nicholson
(in the Chair One by Grcic)

Jeff Kipnis
• nimrod chair by Newson
• (fuck the) puritanism of ideas

• "mood river" exhibit

Bruce Mau
• Ego Chair by unknown
• "radically surprising"

• designers don't just pick the color
• incomplete manifesto































Zoe Ryan
• unknown chair by unknown designer
• "the good life: new public spaces for recreation"
• i buy objects for the aic, here are a few examples





































Aaron Betsky

• eros, stark

• buildings are where architecture goes to die
• architecture and design are cultural
endeavors to better our experience
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