LECTURE: International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York Design Week
New York
May 19, 2008

Design Entrepreneurs: Make Good and Prosper

For its annual, exceptionally stimulating design think tank, Metropolis explores the fundamental human concern for Doing Well and Doing Good within the parameters of political, social, and personal values. A dazzling roster of speakers and moderator Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis editor in chief, explore the many and varied ways that successful business ventures can be good for the environment and society, as well as the individual’s body and soul.

Keynote speaker Fritz Haeg, the architect, educator, provocateur and author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, newly released by Metropolis Books, delivers the first ever Horace Havemeyer III Education Legacy Fund lecture. Established by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of ASID, the Legacy Fund recognizes Havemeyer’s abiding contributions to design, architecture, and sustainability as Metropolis’s founder and publisher.

Conference speakers have professional and personal agendas for both doing well and doing good and individual insights to share. In addition to Haeg, the line-up includes the always innovative Yves Béhar, founder of fuseprojects; Ron Sheldon, vice president, Development & Construction/Technical Services, of the imaginative and design-centric Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group; Nina Smith, executive director of RugMark USA, an international nonprofit devoted to building schools, programs, and opportunities for children by ending child labor in South Asia’s handmade carpet industry; Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design solutions to global communities in need; and Tanu Kumar, director of business services for the New York Industrial Retention Network, a citywide not-for-profit with principles of social and environmental justice that’s devoted to strengthening Gotham’s manufacturing sector, and researching and advocating on behalf of New York City’s manufacturing community.

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