Jake Barton to speak at Pioneers of Change
September 1, 2009
Faculty member Jake Barton will be speaking at Pioneers of Change, a festival celebrating Dutch design, fashion, and architecture on New York’s Governors Island to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American friendship. Jake will be joined by fellow National Design Awards honoree Scott Stowell of Open, Arne Hendriks of Platform 21, in a panel “open talk” discussion moderated by Julie Iovine, Executive Editor of Architects Newspaper.
Details
Thursday, September 10
2:30-4:00PM
Governor’s Island
New York City
About Pioneers of Change:
Pioneers of Change encourages a more responsible and sustainable approach to living. The event celebrates the blurring of low- and high-brow, establishing new collaborations, encouraging involvement and valuing handcraft and the local context.
Since the economic downfall, the notion of luxury has come under attack. Pioneers of Change does not apply the luxury tag to an ethos of riches as such but to qualities now hard to come by, including space, fresh air, respect, care, silence, slowness and time.
The event will be kicked off on September 10th with open talks. Visitors can listen and debate, watch and participate, relax and think, eat and drink, play their music, be inspired, connect and, simply, enjoy. They can also shop at the pop up store of affordable Dutch design ware, all under 100 dollars.
