Grounded and historically aware 21st Century design practice

Join us for a fascinating discussion with Matt Nish-Lapidus.

Design practice needs to evolve to address the new connected world we live in, one where people and objects augment our capabilities like never before. As designers of these platforms, devices, and services, we need to reframe and redefine the nature of design foundations, practice, and theory to represent the skills and knowledge required.

Strong foundations are grounded in the history of practice and theory, pull from related fields, and make connections between the craft skills of practice and the understanding of why we do things the way we do. Foundations give us the basis for a shared practice and critical language for the complex and entangled thing that is design in the 21st century.

About Matt Nish-Lapidus

Matt is an independent designer and creative technologist based in Toronto, Canada, a design instructor at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), and an active musician and artist.

His work has included everything from a digital library catalog in use all over the world to enterprise software, video games, and large-scale public installations. He spent the first few years of his career assisting international new media artists including Stelarc and David Rokeby while developing his own art and design practice. He has since worked with organizations as big as Coca-Cola and as small as un-funded startups.

Over the past 10 years Matt has focused on developing a design practice that addresses the opportunities and challenges of living in a networked world, and how we can use beauty and expressiveness to make better products.