TAKEPLACE: THE FUTURE OF DESIGN

Saturday, March 5, 2011

THE FUTURE OF DESIGN

Hear from contemporary artists as they share their art-making techniques and sources of inspiration. Presentations are followed by a special Q&A.

Davin Stowell is founder and CEO of Smart Design, a design company with thirty years of experience creating things people use in their daily life. He has designed sunglasses, potato peelers, soup bowls, photo printers, kids’ toothbrushes, and software packaging, among many other products, and has worked with companies such as OXO, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and World Kitchen. MOMA

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TakePlace was made with you in mind It's about ideas and innovation, creative perspectives, and solutions. We're advocates for change, because change needs friends. We explore complex systems, adaptive agents, modeling, simulation, artificial life, and complex (information, biological, and social) networks. We especially focus on the Web as a complex information network in which we leave abundant traces of our social and semantic activities: what we do, what we are interested in, whom we talk to, what knowledge we acquire and contribute. Our research spans from modeling the dynamic processes that occur on the Web (how information networks grow and evolve, how individual and collective traffic patterns emerge, how attention bursts are generated and shaped by social and search tools) to designing tools that mine the Web to build better search, navigation, management, and recommendation tools (where ‘better’ means more intelligent, autonomous, robust, personalized, contextual, scalable, adaptive, and so on).