We had a great time in Chinatown on the March 13th, thanks to our many wonderful speakers, guests and visitors. Pictures of the evening’s events, can be found on the events page of this website. Take a look and see if you can find yourself in the huddled crowd or corner of a reflection.
Even more thanks goes out to our speakers, Jason Burton, Brett Himmel, Tom Sandonato, Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Phillips, and Kim Karlsrud, who gave an enlightening talk moderated by Shibui Designs’ own Randall Wilson.
If you weren’t there, our gracious speakers covered a variety of concerns regarding design for outdoor spaces. Modern Outdoor’s Brett Himmel touched on competition in the outdoor field regarding well designed goods, the incorporation and integration of materials from other previously unexplored applications, and the implications of material awareness on local manufacturing, and environmental impact.
Tom Sandonato, of kitHAUS, talked a bit more about designing for a competitive marketplace, and breaking through by using the outdoors as a designable space to elevate and enhance lifestyle, expanding interior space to incorporate the surrounding exterior, and what it means to be in the garden and closer to God.
Jason Burton stressed material awareness as an approach to designing for new spaces, and how experience working with the land can yield inspiration for how one sustainably approaches the life cycle of a specific material.
Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Philips, and Kim Karlsrud closed the talk with a bit about urban reclamation and how human intervention can heal human decimated environments, using seed bombs (a compound of worm castings, clay and seeds) to easily plant unused and unpaved spaces..
