ICFF PROGRAMS • NY INSIDE

Louise Campbell with Sam Grawe

Sunday, May 18, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Sam Grawe, Dwell editor in chief, and Louise Campbell of Copenhagen-based Studio/Louise Campbel, discuss Campbell’s work. Anglo-Danish and educated in both countries, Campbell opened her design atelier in 1996. An experimentalist with a sense of humor, a social conscience, and a client that includes Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, Royal Copenhagen, and The Danish Ministry of Culture, Campbell tackles the problems of every day objects and situations, as well as materials and manufacturing processes.

Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation is Changing the World

Sunday, May 18, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Materials science is transformative. Smart substances, intelligent interfaces, and sensory surfaces are redefining our environment and changing our lives. Each successive generation of materials embodies new properties and potentialities limited only by the imagination and the ability of designers and manufacturers to harness the possibilities. Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation is Changing the World, Material ConneXion’s recent publication, documents the current state of the material world through groundbreaking products and interviews with designers. Join the book’s contributors as they elaborate on just how cutting-edge materials affect design today and life tomorrow.

Metropolis Conference: Rethinking Energy

Monday, May 19, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. For its annual, exceptionally stimulating design think tank, Metropolis explores the fundamental human concern for Doing Well and Doing Good within the parameters of political, social, and personal values. A dazzling roster of speakers and moderator Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis editor in chief, explores the many and varied ways that successful business ventures can be good for the environment and society, as well as the individual's body and soul. Keynote speaker Fritz Haeg, the architect, educator, provocateur and author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, newly released by Metropolis Books, delivers the first ever Horace Havemeyer III Education Legacy Fund lecture. Established by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of ASID, the Legacy Fund recognizes Havemeyer’s abiding contributions to design, architecture, and sustainability as Metropolis’s founder and publisher. Conference speakers have professional and personal agendas for both doing well and doing good and individual insights to share. In addition to Haeg, the line-up includes the always innovative Yves Behar, founder of fuseprojects; Ron Sheldon, vice president, Development & Construction/Technical Services, of the imaginative and design-centric Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group; Nina Smith, executive director of RugMark USA, an international nonprofit devoted to building schools, programs, and opportunities for children by ending child labor in South Asia’s handmade carpet industry; Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design solutions to global communities in need; and Tanu Kumar, director of business services for the New York Industrial Retention Network, a citywide not-for-profit with principles of social and environmental justice that’s devoted to strengthening Gotham’s manufacturing sector, and researching and advocating on behalf of New York City’s manufacturing community.

Theater

The ICFF Theater, is a stage for the latest in dramatic solutions. This year, the interior features Link, PearsonLloyd's new light-weight modular space shaper made of high-performance expanded polypropylene, a material commonly used in packaging and the automotive industry. The elegant components fit together in a snap for purely decorative purposes or for temporary structures. As for seating, star billing goes to the Bouroullec brothers' Magis Steelwood chair, an assemblage of steel and wood designed for ultimate comfort – and happy sitting for three act, plus. Here's to the human tragedy.