
Part of a series: How Storytelling Can Change the World, Fall 2009 — Fall 2010
5D | Design is Change – Event 1: Imagination at Play: Replay Your World
6:30 pm, Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York
RSVPs CLOSED Oct 21, 2pm EST
PLEASE RSVP and email inquires to 5D AT designischange DOT org
OVERVIEW: 5D | Design is Change
Design is Change (DisC) explores and nurtures entertainment and narrative cross-media’s role and impact as social change and humanitarian designers in world building.
DisC is creating conversations and questions about dynamic, mission-driven design, emerging technologies and narrative media. These conversations also investigate influences and responses, and perceived and real-world outcomes resulting from convergent media’s accelerating shift towards a scenario-driven immersive world.
5D is producing a year long event series starting Fall 2009 called, “How Storytelling Can Change the World,” scheduled at venues across the country including the MoMA in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, bringing together designers and thinkers with leading humanitarians and social change organizations, to create innovative and previously unimagined collaborations.
DisC 1: Imagination at Play: Replay Your World
The first Design is Change event at the MoMA on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 is entitled “Imagination at Play: Replay Your World” and features speakers from an array of disciplines including game design, architecture, education, and design of cities today and of the future. Speakers will engage in dynamic discussion with the audience exploring conceptual and contextual narratives for “(re)play(ing) our worlds,” and how play in digital space inspires new ways of imagining our communities.
Students at Quest to Learn, Katie Salen’s new school opening Sept 9 in New York City, where students (12-18yrs) learn through interaction with digital media and games, will be presented with a project to design games to do just that: “Replay Their World”. Details to follow.
Speakers:
Katie Salen
Professor, Design and Technology Program, Parsons the New School for Design
Executive Director of
Institute of Play www.instituteofplay.com
Quest to Learn www.Q2L.org
Quest to Learn is a new taxpayer-funded school opening in NYC on Sept 9 and is featured in The Economist on Sept 3
www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14350149
Diana Lind
Editor in Chief and Publisher
Next American City http://americancity.org
Next American City is a national quarterly magazine about making cities better; observing, documenting and conceiving realistic solutions about how to improve cities-how to ensure that future generations’ lives are improved.
Paola Antonelli
Curator, Architecture and Design
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art www.moma.org
Notably, in 2008, Ms. Antonelli curated Design and the Elastic Mind
www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
featuring “New City” by Alex McDowell (co-founder 5D), Peter Frankfurt and Greg Lynn
www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/175
Moderator:
Clifford Pearson
Senior Editor
Architectural Record archrecord.construction.com
Credits and Information:
5D | Design is Change (DisC) curated by Paulynn Cue, www.paulynn.com and produced by 5D.
DisC’s Presenting Sponsor: Unified Field Corporation www.unifiedfieldbank.com
DisC’s Media Sponsor: Next American City www.americancity.org
The 5D: Future of Immersive Design Conference is a leading entertainment industry design, technology and innovation conference and is the platform for exploring the present and future of immersive design, and its impact on all aspects of the creative media space. www.5Dconference.com
The Museum of Modern Art — MoMA
Bartos Theater
4 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
info AT moma DOT org
Time: Doors at 6:30pm, Talk starts at 7pm. Please arrive on time. Seating is limited.
RSVPs CLOSED Oct 21, 2pm EST
PLEASE RSVP and email inquires to 5D AT designischange DOT org
Image Credit: Used with permission from the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts. www.thatgamecomp














