Less than four weeks to go before What Design Can Do 2014 kicks off. For those of you unable to wait that long, David Kester tops the bill at a special WDCD event this Thursday evening at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam.
The first speaker at WDCD last year and moderator of this year’s conference, Kester will discuss the themes of the upcoming event with Tim Vermeulen of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
He will also present new cases in an effort to answer the key question: What Can Design Do? The conversation will also explore whether policy-makers and governments are correct when they claim, as they so often do, that design is going to provide the solution for all sorts of social problems. Is design really the cure-all that so many people think it is?
A former director of the British Design Council, Kester is a non-executive director of Thames & Hudson, where he currently leads a strategic business review.
This week Kester is also taking part in a master class organized by the Sandberg Instituut and the Dutch Cultural Media Fund entitled ‘Quantified Reality: a story between data, power and reality’. The master class by invitation only, but admission to Thursday evening’s event is open to the public and is free. Reserve your place here.
If you missed Kester’s presentation at WDCD last year, you can watch it here: https://www.whatdesigncando.com/mediaitem/david-kester/
Information, in Dutch only, about the Quantified Reality master class is available online here: http://quantifiedreality.nl