Designing design | Hannah Park | TEDxLangleyED

Design is a deliberate process that aims to find creative opportunities to resolve systemic problems. As the role of designers has been expanding from problem solvers to problem finders, current and future designers are required to demonstrate their systems thinking ability. By investigating the possibilities inherent in the process of design, innovative directions can be found for the better resolution of socially oriented issues. Drawing on one of her design projects entitled "SkyAct" for inspiration, Hannah will share the important emerging elements that are reshaping the contemporary design landscape along with taking you through a perilous and entertaining model of the creative process.

Hannah Park is an assistant professor and the head of the Graphic Design Program at Memphis College of Art, TN. Park received her BFA in Product Design at Parsons the New School for Design and her MDes at York University and has worked with various companies in New York City, Plano and Toronto. Her sustainable dinnerware design for Verterra was exhibited at the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She also designed educational iPad applications at Play:CES research labs at York University and worked as a committee member for Light Pollution Abatement at the City of Toronto. Hannah’s project “SkyAct: Remembering The Starry Night” explores the ways in which design can be an active mediator in the orchestration of innovative directions to support sustainable ways of living.

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