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Double Duty: Re-Imagining the Public Value of Infrastructure

Azure Magazine

The street as public space — as site to reclaim for civic possibilities — gained new potency during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. How might one recapture the street as a site for design to help nourish belonging, inclusivity, and spontaneous interaction in our public spaces? New Public Hydrant.

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IDS Vancouver 2020 Gets Virtual – in a Vivid Way

Azure Magazine

Virtual Seminar: Natasha Hussein of Super Imaginary. Virtual Seminar: Ben van Berkel and Astrid Piber of UNStudio. Opening night Oct 1; open to public Oct 2 to 8. As for Azure ‘s picks, here are five we’re exceptionally excited about: 1. Friday, Oct 2 at 9AM PST, $20 (IDCEC 1.0 General Hour, AIBC 1 Non-Core LU).

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A Bank Relocates Its Office to an Unlikely Location – The Mall!

Design Milk

The benefit of being located at the Eaton Center is also accessibility to public transit. Employees enjoy generous amenities like a recreation room with stadium-style seating, foosball and ping pong tables, a wellness center for yoga/fitness classes and health seminars, two coffee bars, and an adjacent community hub on the roof deck.

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Handling the Business Side of Design

HONGKIAT

There’s a clear need for more comprehensive business education, covering areas such as: Diverse subjects like calculus, economics, history, and public speaking. Reach out to your chamber of commerce for seminars that could provide business insights or networking opportunities. Legal aspects, including contract creation.

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Your Step-by-Step Guide to Event Design

Canny

Workshops and seminars: These educational events are led by industry experts, providing attendees with learning experiences and practical skills. Going back to our earlier point about logistics, you also want somewhere close to nearby public transportation, making it easy for people to commute.

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Savvy Business School at Columbia

Azure Magazine

Another major attribute that the structures share is a circulation network centred on sculptural staircases that connect their ground floors to their top tiers, and every space in between — from intimate lounges and flexible seminar spaces to tiered seating. The space is part of the street level, which the school makes open to the public.

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Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in July

Design Week

AnswerLab – a UX research firm – is holding a virtual seminar on the topic led by its product lead Kristin Zibell and diversity manager Shakima Jackson-Martinez. In the free 45-minute seminar, they will be talking about how you can implement inclusivity into product design and how teams can take action together.