Saving the World and Stuff
Flowe Auditorium (Flowe 110)
15 East Peace Street
Raleigh, NC 27604-1149
The Journey from Sustainable Design to Practical Action with K. McArthur and Marc Alt
AIGA Raleigh invites you to join the global discourse on sustainable design, with special guests K. McArthur and Marc Alt.
First, K. McArthur, the Vice-President of Free Range Studios in Washington, DC, will discuss the lessons learned by a design firm committed to creating social change through progressive non-profits and socially-responsible businesses for over a decade. Through an introduction to "The Story of Stuff", an award-winning and massively popular collaboration with filmmaker Annie Leonard, a number of social and environmental issues are shown through patterns of production and consumption.
Next, Marc Alt, the founding co-chair of the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design in New York, NY, will present accounts of his and AIGA's activities in such wide-reaching initiatives as the Center, the Designers Accord, the Grow conference, and Greener Gadgets. By bringing design and ecology together into the realms of industry and commerce, Alt explores the increasingly urgent challenges designers face as stewards of awareness and environmentalism.
Then, it's your chance to participate in the dialogue, as Alt and McArthur open the floor for questions to them and to each other. Bring your thoughts and ideas for personal, professional, and cultural growth and change. Learn how to better sustain good design by engaging the community here, nationally, and around the world.
Note from AIGA Raleigh: Unfortunately, Marc Alt will not be able to join us because of a personal emergency. We are lucky to have Dr. Kate LaMere, an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at East Carolina University, fill in for the event. Dr. LaMere is well-versed in sustainability and green design issues.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Peace College
Flowe Auditorium (Flowe 110)
15 East Peace Street
Raleigh, NC 27604-1149
Reduced Admission
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Student Members: free
Student Non-Members: $5
Speaker Bios
McArthur has worked in design and communications for fifteen years and loves to create smart blends of aesthetics and effective ideas. Along the way she has fundraised, organized, and developed on behalf of hundreds of non-profits and favorite causes. At Free Range, she managed the organizational growth from a small, two-person design studio to a highly prestigious, 25–person strategic communications firm with offices in two cities. Currently, as one of the firm’s partners and Vice President, McArthur leads Free Range’s business development and client relations team. Her communications background, business acumen and non-profit experience combine to make her a valuable asset to any communications project and a sought-after consultant and speaker. Among other venues, she has spoken at American University’s “Filmmakers for Conservation” event on new media and environmental issues, University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamp’s Distinguished Visitors Program, and The Art Institute of Washington. Driven by her passion for real world change, McArthur continues to push Free Range’s level of service and commitment to quality.
Marc Alt speaks frequently to a wide variety of audiences and companies about green design, sustainablility and creating value by aligning corporate strategy with environmental and social benefit. As an advocate of business transformation, Marc develops environmental conferences, including Grow, the first conference dedicated to the intersection of design, sustainability and commerce, and Greener Gadgets, a conference exploring the challenges, possibilities and trends in the greening of the consumer electronics industry. Marc serves on the advisory board of The Designers Accord and is founding co-chair of the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design.
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Do you have the materials the 2nd speaker was going to make available to us (the slide she had up) thanks
Posted by: ashley moore on April 14, 2008
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