what design can do 2012

an extremely biased and personal view

  1. FRIDAY - DAY 1 - VRIJDAG
  2. #wdcd Mayor vd Laan opens the conference after a short introduction by organizer Richard vd Laken (What Shoes Can Do for a designer)
  3. #WDCD ''You can measure the vitality of a city by its cultural activities'' - mayor of Amsterdam Van der Laan
  4. Mayor of Amsterdam opens with great fluency + civic insight into design potential: 'unconventional solutions to prevailing problems' #wdcd
  5. Piet Oudolf: planting design. "Tradionally it's decoration, for me it's a tool to express" Inspired by wild plants in derelict places #wdcd
  6. Interesting things at #wdcd so far. From Piet Oudolf: what if time was the essential element in planting design?
  7. "most food items need to be prepared, therefore we are all food designers" honey&bunny at #wdcd
  8. When you eat something you smell it. All 270 descernable scents (oposing 5 tastes) #fooddesign #WDCD
  9. Touch and smell more refined instruments than taste in experiencing food. Honey Bunny at #wdcd
  10. Interesting things at #wdcd so far. From Honey & Bunny: what if taste had little to do with the way we consume food?
  11. Great insights on symbols and function and cultural meaning of food by Honey & Bunny #wdcd
  12. The psychology of food design: people who bite into things, bite into problems. People who swallow, just swallow life. Honey and bunny #wdcd
  13. “@winasmeenk: KLM uses dutch design, what about #WDCD for ordinary people?” It will 'trickle down' (elite behaviour will be picked up)
  14. Hella Jongerius is interviewed by @tracymetznrc on the human connection of her designs #wdcd twitpic.com/9jdyk6
  15. It's the shoes AGAIN! Suzanne Lee on stage now on highest heels at #WDCD about BioCouture
  16. RT @hilmerthijs: #wdcd Suzanne Lee is developing new materials from sugared water. "bacteria are the factories of the future." http://pic.twitter.com/wZpHQoXi
  17. 'the bacteria is our factory' - combined with 10 weekly gallons of waste sugar water as raw material - Suzanne lee @ #wdcd
  18. Sick of fast fashion and the thread-mill. Bio textile potentially answers a lot of questions. Suzanne Lee #WDCD
  19. Making shit sexy by taking soccer stars to tell people to take à clean shit with games like world toilet cup briljant!! #wdcd
  20. Trending in NL op 10-05-2012 12:45:05: #wdcd-Pieter Huistra-Foeke Booy-#mds12-#AskJakeThrupp-The Pirate Bay-App ... bit.ly/LWAqGH
  21. India as an inspiring design nation is represented at #WDCD by speakers Rajesh Dahiya and Aditya Dev Sood.

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