In tribute to McLuhan and his upcoming centenary, Toronto designers from the fields of academia, landscape architecture, graphic design, communication design, interior design, and industrial design came out to share in the dialogue of Social Consciousness in Design. Here is a quick montage of Marshall McLuhan speaking about the global village.
Boom, boom, boom went the tribal drums of social consciousness at the Spoke Club this week as Cassie McDaniel, Hamid Samad, Andrew Ballenthin, and Dominique Scheffel-Dunand shared their perspectives on the idea of social consciousness in today’s Global Village.
Hosted by the team at Pivot Design Group, and sponsored by TAL Group and George Brown College’s Gaming Inc., the event was a great success (despite the NHL finals conflict)! Check out photos on Flickr and the video recap here:
View the speaker videos below…
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Cassie McDaniel on social consciousness vs social conscientiousness.
Hamid Samad on building environments around social stories.
Andrew Ballenthin on narcissism in today’s social sphere.
Dominique Scheffel-Dunand on McLuhan100 and social consciousness in academia.
Andrew Ballenthin
says on:Thanks for hosting a great event Ian. I enjoyed participating as a speaker and really enjoyed listening to Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, Hamid Samad and Cassie McDaniel. What a great diversity in speakers and topics.
Elwira Wozniak
says on:This was my first DesignMeets event and I am definitely looking forward to seeing the next ones in Toronto. The speakers at this event all left us with something to think about and topics were open to many of the different design disciplines—a great mix!