[SPN-Discussion] GOOD Design: Innovations in Sustainability, Thursday, May 27, 6:30-9 P.M.

[Natalia Oberti Noguera]

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GOOD Design: Innovations in Sustainability

*According to New York Times journalist Alice Rawsthorn, "If you ask a
designer to name the most important issues facing design today, one is bound
to be sustainability, which is design-speak for helping the rest of us to
live responsibly, ethically and environmentally."*

Everyday all different kinds of designers join the sustainability community
using production techniques that positively impact the lives of consumer and
producers. GOOD Design is an open dialogue around what sustainability design
means today and how innovation is breaking the boundaries in social
enterprise, fashion, architecture, and education.

*Speakers include:*

*Debera Johnson*

Debera Johnson, started her career at Pratt as a student in the Industrial
Design program and returned to the department to teach and was selected to
chair the ID program from 1998 until 2005.  Currently she is Pratt’s
Academic Director of Sustainability and has been working across the
institute to implement Pratt’s strategic commitment to link the greening of
its campus with greening of its academic programs.

She is also director of Pratt’s Center for Sustainable Design Studies and
Research <http://csds.pratt.edu/> (CSDS), a hub and open source resource
center for environmental action. Deb founded and directs the Pratt Design
Incubator <http://incubator.pratt.edu/> for Sustainable/Social Enterprise,
now under the umbrella of CSDS. The Incubator, started in 2002,
supports Pratt’s
entrepreneurial alumni in starting design based sustainable/social
enterprises and has helped launch over 12 businesses. The Incubator also
takes on numerous for profit and non-profit projects, connecting a network
of faculty, alumni and students to work on world changing projects. Deb was
the chair of the NYC chapter of the IDSA and is the strategic director for
education for the “Designers Accord.” Recently, she established the
“Sustainability Cohort” an inter-institute group of educators envisioning
the future of design education.


*Rita Saikali*

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Lebanese American designer Rita Saikali <http://www.ritasaikali.com/>, is
currently the Director of Outreach and Advocacy at Architecture for
Humanity<http://architectureforhumanity.org/>New York and a Designer
at Samoo Architecture PC. Having grown up in Beirut,
and lived and worked in both Los Angeles and New York City, Rita's
philanthropic passions and dedication to design advocacy and education have
landed her in several leadership roles, and on projects of varied scales and
mediums.  At Architecture for Humanity, Rita has initiated and managed
several projects including AFHny
<http://www.afhny.org/>FlyNY<http://www.flyny.org/>international
design competition, among others. Working with Hoops for Hope,
she designed and curated the fabrication of a prototype container clubhouse
to be featured in the Spring of 2010. She has also taught the Architecture
Studio for Stickball Print Media Arts in the Summer of 2008, was invited to
partake in the Cooper Hewitt’s annual Teen Design Fair in the Fall of 2009.
Rita also recently invited to judge for The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
in the Winter of 2010. She received her Masters of Science in Advanced
Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2007, and her Bachelors in
Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona in 2005.


*She**ena Matheiken*

Irish born, Indian raised and Brooklyn based, Sheena is the founder,
creative director and public face of the Uniform
Project<http://www.theuniformproject.com/>.
In May 2009, Sheena challenged herself to wear the same dress for an entire
year and reinvent it everyday by way of accessorizing with vintage,
handmade, recycled or donated goods. The project’s social mission was to
raise funds for the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit organization that has
dedicated over 20 years towards the education of underprivileged children in
India.

A former Creative Director at a Publicis owned interactive agency in New
York, Sheena started the Uniform Project as a creative outlet to counter the
apathy inducing demands of her Park Avenue advertising job. With an MFA in
Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, NY and a BFA in Art
from Stella Maris College, Chennai, India, her experience in digital design
and online media has been key to the positioning and viral success of the
Uniform Project. Converging the unusual avenues of sustainable fashion and
digital philanthropy, the U.P is now a growing digital platform that puts
social responsibility at the center of consumer culture.


*Moderator:*

*Emily Spivack*

Emily Spivack’s work spans social innovation, culture, and fashion. She is
currently the Director of Dowser <http://www.dowser.org/>, a recently
launched media organization that highlights news and stories about social
innovation. Prior to Dowser, Emily spent six years as the Executive Director
of Shop Well with You <http://www.shopwellwithyou.org/>, a national
web-based organization she founded that helps women with cancer improve
their body-image and quality of life. Since 2007, Emily has curated a
collection of stories about clothing and memory from eBay posts for a blog
she maintains, Sentimental Value <http://www.sentimental-value.com/>.
Emilyserves on the board of Brown University’s Entrepreneurship
Program, is an
award recipient of Eileen Fisher’s Women Change the World Everyday campaign,
and was one of Glamour’s Top 10 College Women. She graduated from Brown
University with Honors with a degree in Art/Semiotics.



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