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GOOD magazine + Widgets & Stone: Design to Improve Life in Chattanooga Wednesday, June 10, 2009
On June 17, national biweekly GOOD magazine will team up with local design studio Widgets & Stone to hold a Design to Improve Life event in Chattanooga.
Building off of the success of GOOD design events in Los Angeles, the magazine’s creative director Casey Caplowe will present with John Bielenberg, founder of Project M, on the power of design to shape positive change.
The objectives of GOOD, as a content provider and communications platform, overlap with the mission of Project M, as an instigator of social action. Both organizations inspire and encourage conscious global citizens to band together around shared convictions and experiences of living well and doing good. The Chattanooga event will be the first time that the two organizations have partnered together.
Also presenting at the event will be a core team of Chattanooga designers, architects, urban planners, businesspeople, academics and more on the results of an intensive 12 hour design project, undertaken alongside GOOD and Project M. Inspired in part by Chattanooga STAND, the design team will select a single identifiable challenge facing downtown Chattanooga and apply its members’ experience and expertise to bring design-based solutions to business and city leaders, as well as to the public.
“The timing couldn’t be more perfect,” says Widgets & Stone senior designer Joseph Shipp, who met the GOOD staff in Luxembourg and proposed the collaboration. “STAND is asking Chattanoogans to speak up about challenges in our community, and then step up and take action. GOOD and Project M have proven a model that works around the world - from Los Angeles to Iceland. We’re delighted that they’ve agreed to visit our city, inspiring us all to help make Chattanooga a better place to live.”
The public event is open to all, at no charge; Wednesday June 17 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at green|spaces, 63 East Main Street Chattanooga.
Widgets & Stone is a design studio that connects business with creativity, designing tools and strategies that benefit economy, communication, innovation and brand. The Design to Improve Life project proclaims and heralds the End of Design (is to improve life).
Project M is an intensive program designed to inspire graphic designers, writers, photographers and other creative people to work for positive and significant impact on the world.
GOOD is an integrated media platform serving people, businesses and NGOs, providing content, experiences and utilities that push the world forward.
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