The Nordic Consulates in New York, Scandinavia House and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum present the panel debate Design Policy - Lessons Learned. Scandinavia House in New York hosts the event on November 11th at 7.00pm.
How does policy cultivate the right conditions for design markets to be competitive on a global scale and still be socially minded? The Nordic countries have set a precedent for design policy in the global design community. Today Nordic design and business increasingly go hand-in-hand. Promoting good design that creates solutions to social, ethical, and environmental problems has proven over time to be good business for the Nordic design market.
The Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Trond Giske, will be the introductory speaker at the panel debate.
Moderated by Bradford McKee, Editor-in-Chief, Landscape Architecture Magazine, this panel also includes up-and-coming and major designers, focusing on architecture and design policies in the Nordic countries and the knowledge acquired in carrying out those policies.
Panelists:
Christian Scherfig -CEO of the Danish Design Centre
Sanna-Mari Jäntti - Development Director, World Design Capital Helsinki 2012
Halla Helgadóttir - Managing Director of the Iceland Design Centre
Lavrans Løvlie - co-founder of London-based service design agency live|work.
Robin Edman - SVID, The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, Sweden
The Nordic Culture Fund provided support for this event.