Women of Impact Presentation Video Highlights
Women of Impact presentation The Women of Impact project consists of a book, museum exhibition, and presentation. Here are the presentation highlights with the inaugural group […]
Peter Schoonmaker is Designing for the Future
I want to design from the future, and for the students to design with their heads in 2050. What would it be like to time travel back to 2018, 2020, 2025 from that future to anticipate the needs and understand resources trends, so that we can all live well together long into the future.
Future AD&A Museum and impactmania Projects Announced
In January 2018, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara (AD&A Museum, UCSB) partnered with impactmania and launched a unique collaboration. To cement this partnership, Paksy Plackis-Cheng, impactmania’s founder, was named Senior Fellow of Research and Media.
Women of Impact Exhibition at AD&A Museum, July 19th – September
Most media would like us to believe that women have taken a backseat in driving cultural, social, and economic impact. In two years, impactmania featured more than 125 female change makers in 30 countries including ambassadors; impact investors;
impactmania’s Presentation to AD&A Museum interns, UC Santa Barbara
Initially, I found these numbers alarming. Now I look at these and am excited. These numbers also mean there will be many new opportunities. We’ll need Chief Productivity Officers, nano-medics, robot-counselors (matching people w/ robots), 3D body part makers. Apart from wealth mangers, you will also have crypto-currency managers. But also non-technology jobs such as a nostaligst: someone who recreates familiar living places for the elderly.
AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara Partners with impactmania!
In January 2018, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara (AD&A Museum, UCSB) will partner with impactmania and launch a unique collaboration. To cement this partnership, Paksy Plackis-Cheng, impactmania’s founder, is named Senior Fellow of Research and Media.
Design with Cultural, Social, and Economic Impact – A Conversation at PNCA
December, 2017 PNCA’s MFA Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems welcomed impactmania’s founder Paksy Plackis-Cheng for a conversation about design with cultural, social, and economic impact. […]
impactmania Bridges Another Partnership
The impactmania and Jaipur Rugs Foundation co-produced video story has been featured at the United Nations Global Compact Conference 2017.
Dec 6. impactmania’s founder in Portland: Design w/ Cultural, Social, and Economic Impact
PNCA’s MFA Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems are excited to welcome impactmania’s founder Paksy Plackis-Cheng for a conversation about design with cultural, social, […]
United Nations (UN) Foundation Features impactmania Video
United Nations (UN) Foundation features impactmania’s video story!
Living in the Creative Zone: Ivy Ross, Vice President at Google
Living in the Creative Zone, Transforming the World One Idea at a Time is a collection of interviews with international figures driving change forward through […]
Innovator Daan Roosegaarde on Being Future Proof
Innovator Daan Roosegaarde on Being Future Proof BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Daan Roosegaarde, the global impact maker, designer, and innovator, has made a name for himself with […]
Building the First 3D-Print Canal House: Co-founder of DUS Architects, Hans Vermeulen
DUS is currently leading an international team of partners in “research and doing,” connecting science, design, construction, and community by 3D-printing a canal house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Master Designer, Marcel Wanders, Designs To Connect Cultures
Marcel Wanders spoke with impactmania about what design can do in a political and social context. His whimsical design seeks to serve as a new connection between people beyond borders and across cultures.
Akte01 – After Chrysler Abandons an Engine Plant
Sandra Arndt and Lasha Brown, architects and founders Akte 01, discuss their upcoming entry for the Oslo Triennale and their winning proposal for the UD4U International Urban Design Competition for the abandoned Chrysler Engine Plant in the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin.