Reinventions: Insights 2008 Design Lecture Series - Lorraine Gauthier and Alejandro Quinto

Inspired by their shared experience as part of the inaugural team of designers at Bruce Mau’s Institute without Boundaries program and its Massive Change project, Lorraine Gauthier and Alejandro Quinto formed their interdisciplinary studio, Work Worth Doing, in 2004 with the simple yet complicated goal of creating positive social and environmental actions for corporations, governments, and communities. Recent projects include: Now House, a demonstration project for green housing, which will turn a post–World War II house into a near-zero energy home; an installation and research project that asks the question “What if Greenland was Africa’s water fountain?”; a proposal for civic participation in discussing democratic solutions to terrorism in Madrid involving text messaging and public projection; and Hyperborder, a research and book project about the U.S.-Mexico border in collaboration with architect Fernando Romero. Prior to Work Worth Doing, Gauthier operated her own successful communications design studio for more than 10 years, and Quinto studied new media and design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at the University of Brighton, England, and recently served as designer-in-residence at North Carolina State University.

Series tickets: $70 ($48 AIGA and Walker members).
Individual event tickets: $20 ($15).
Student individual: $10.
Student series: $40.

Lectures:
March 04  Marian Bantjes
March 11  Lorraine Gauthier and Alejandro Quinto
March 18  Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels
March 25  Ed Fella

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This lecture will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel.

Please join us for a cocktail before the lecture from 5 - 7 pm at 20.21.

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To watch last years series go to Walker Channel archives.
Lecture 01, 02, 03, 04.