URBN Center ANNEX at 3401 Filbert Street. Friday October 12, 2018 How does design research create change in health, technology, and the environment? What are the leading-edge models of thought around creating change through design? Today, artists and designers are pursuing work and creative expression that push the boundaries of traditional disciplines requiring interdisciplinary collaborations, the mastery of new technologies, and intensive research to unearth new solutions to practical and aesthetic problems. Join The Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design for a symposium that examines the process of change and design through presentations by
IBM, Cityhealth in Brooklyn, and Healthify in New York, and Ballinger, discussions, and poster presentations at the Westphal College’s award winning facility The URBN Center and The URBN Center Annex.
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-research-symposium-2018-tickets-49062385917 SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: CHECK IN AND BREAKFAST 8:00-8:15 URBN ANNEX LOBBY MORNING SESSIONS PART OF THE DESIGN, HEALTH AND CHANGE SERIES SPONSORED BY THE SCATTERGOOD FOUNDATION AND THE ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDERS COMMUNITY CENTERED HEALTH CARE GUEST SPEAKER 8:15-9:30 AM URBN ANNEX SCREENING ROOM
Introduction: Lucy Kerman, Senior Vice Provost Drexel University & David Jones, Commissioner DBHIDS Melanie Bella, from Cityblock in Brooklyn will discuss their innovative practice in healthcare and health funding. This talk will focus on the challenging current healthcare space and alternate views of funding and agencies. In addition, the speaker will examine the collaboration between state, city government, universities, hospitals, and other private entities. The break-out sessions will use design processes to innovate on this theme. Funded by Alphabet (Google’s VC funding arm) among others, City block fits into the Alphabet mission of unconventional successful practice in health and life sciences, and bringing new creative ideas to market. Using this groundbreaking organization as a model we will examine the next wave of change in breakout sessions following the talk.
NETWORK AND CHAT NETWORKING BREAK 9:30-10:15 : COFFEE AND SNACKS PROVIDED PANEL SESSION ON HEALTH AND CHANGE: 10:15-11:30 URBN ANNEX SCREENING ROOM: EXPERTS FROM HEALTHIFY, DREXEL, AND BALLINGER WITH THE ALLIANCE MODERATING Introduction: David Jones, Commissioner DBHIDS Moderated by Alliance Executive Director,
Cherie Brummans The panel will be exploring how we can change the health and human services system by addressing the whole community and using technology and design. Issues and questions related to Barriers to change; Immunity to change and opportunity to change health and health care.
Manik Bhat Co-founder and CEO,
Healthify Loretta Jemmot VP Health & Health Equity, Drexel University
Christina Grimes Ballinger Architects
Kinnari Chandriani Get Healthy Philly
TECHNOLOGY GENEVIEVE DION: CENTER FOR FUNCTIONAL FABRICS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND LUNCH: 12:00PM-1:30 PM URBN ANNEX SCREENING ROOM GENEVIEVE DION: Design, Technology and Change: Drexel University Professor to speak on ground breaking functional fabrics and advanced manufacturing. Professor Dion now directs the Center for Functional Fabrics (CFF) at Drexel University and leads with the newly founded Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center (PA FDC). The PA FDC is a regional center affiliated with the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Manufacturing Innovation Institute (AFFOA) located in Cambridge, MA, aimed at facilitating growth in the advanced fabric space. Her research group receives funding from NSF, NHI and Keck Futures and AFFOA. INDUSTRY GUESTS: IBM RESEARCH GROUP 1:30-3:00 URBN Annex Screening Room Introduced By Kathleen Kingscott: IBM Vice President For Strategic Partnerships IBM Research Dr. Vikas C. Raykar, IBM Research AI for fashion: Data is the new black Fashion designers and fashion houses usually start conceptualizing and designing products for the new season six months to one year prior to the actual selling season–though in recent times this has been drastically reduced with the emergence of fast-fashion retailers. That’s why for most apparel retailers, and the fashion industry in general, knowing the trends customers would like to wear next season is extremely important. This talk will describe how modern AI based tools which can understand fashion images and articles can be used to provide a more data-driven approach for trend analysis and forecasting. Dr. Raykar will also describe some of our recent collaborations with various fashion designers.
For more details CLICK HERE Dr. Richard Goodwin, IBM Research Computational Creativity: AI for Flavor and Fragrance Design It takes 10 years to fully train a flavorist or master perfumer, through education and apprenticeship. Over their careers, each designer will produce 10s of thousands of formulas as trails, many with sensory results. We’ve created a system that, like a human apprentice, learns from the work of the masters. Unlike a human apprentice, the system can learn from 100s of thous
