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Gdynia Design Days
Gdynia Design Days
On July 7 at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, we had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Edyta Sadowska from our LAB 60+ as part of Gdynia Design Days. 4 inspiring women talked about the future, technology, business and new approaches to design. We were looking for answers to questions such as: - How to convince an Investor that it is worth investing in additional research in the creation of a project? - How to create a research group in the design process? - What competencies of a designer are important? In addition to Edyta, we could also listen to: Katarzyna Jaros-Puzio - Interior Design Leader IKEA, who spoke about how IKEA "walks with shoes" into our homes to create the best possible products Natalia Olszewska - talking about how you can design based on neuroscience and data science. Justyna Puchalska - a great presenter of the whole discussion, complementing it in virtually every aspect.  
SAS textbook
SAS textbook
Students of Architecture Faculties in Poland, we recommend you an unusual textbook - "The Essentials of the School of Community Architecture", which you can download free of charge: here
 
What's unusual about SAS:
✅makes you curious, inspires you, tells you about the design of public spaces in an interesting way
✅ online and free
✅ contains 8 stories about other design, care, climate, aging, biodiversity and interdisciplinarity
✅ invited to co-create it with people who expand definitions of what architecture and design is
✅ you can find specific examples from the world, recommendation of the most interesting publications, podcasts and films, as well as a glossary of the most needed definitions and non-obvious timelines
✅ the whole thing designed like an intricate jigsaw puzzle of building blocks that can be put together like a lego set
 
 
If you want to know how to think more broadly about design and more responsibly, this is the indispensable book for you! You absolutely must download this unusual manual if you want to be in the mainstream of thinking about contemporary design and architecture! - publication concept: Ola Litorowicz, Martyna Obarska, Marta Żakowska - authors: bal_architektek (Barbara Nawrocka, Dominika Janicka, Dominika Wilczyńska), Jacek Grunt-Mejer, Agnieszka Labus, Ola Litorowicz, Bartłomiej Kruk, Adrian Krężlik, Aleksandra Kurkierewicz, Martyna Obarska, Monika Popkiewicz, Nina Tomczak, Jakub Węgrzynowicz, Marta Żakowska - Editing: Martyna Obarska, Marta Żakowska - language editing: Justyna Chmielewska -graphic design and typesetting: Karol Koszniec
Gdynia Design Days 2022
Gdynia Design Days 2022
As part of the panel "Neuro-mosaic. Three Emerging Profiles of Design to Prosper in a New World" will feature Edyta Sadowska - board member of LAB60+ and an expert on the future in our LAB, and the panel with Edyta will also feature notable experts: - Katarzyna Jaros-Puzio - Interior Design Leader IKEA. At IKEA since 2000, she started as an interior designer in Katowice, Poland, and now works at the main office in Janki. She is responsible for a group of IKEA interior designers throughout Poland, creates advertising sets and takes part in photo and film shoots. - Natalia Olszewska - Theorist and practitioner in the field of architectural design based on neuroscience and data science (neuroscience & evidence-based design). She gained experience in this field, among others, by working with Hume, an avant-garde architecture and urbanism studio founded by architect Itai Palti. - Justyna Puchalska - Having worked in the international design field for 10 years, Justyna has had a deep insight into both international trends and local market requirements. During this time she has gained extensive knowledge of designing brand strategies and delivering solution-based projects that combine creativity and strategy for industries such as retail, beauty, fashion, and food&drink.
 
It's on July 7 at 6 pm - be sure to sign up for the event: here
See you at the seaside!
GreenerAge Newsletter
GreenerAge Newsletter
The NEWSLETTER of the project implemented under the Erasmus+ program "GreenerAge", in which the 60+ Architecture Laboratory Foundation is a partner, has just been released - be sure to sign up and you will find out what's new in the project!
 
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Interview TVN24
Interview TVN24
f you want to listen to why Vienna has won the ranking of being the best city to live in (The Global Liveability Index 2022), I recommend the material, in which you will find many interesting insights from different angles. Vienna is first and foremost a 'Fair Shared City' policy - that is, a city of equal opportunity, one that gives everyone and anyone a sense of fairness and fulfillment of potential relative to opportunity! Agnieszka Labus I even committed two articles a few years ago on examples from Vienna, I recommend to those interested: 🟩 Gender-sensitive housing and what's behind it: read here 🟩 the 'gender mainstreaming' strategy, which in Vienna has evolved into the 'equal opportunity city' strategy: read here
LAB60+ x GZM Metropolis
LAB60+ x GZM Metropolis
Today we officially concluded the project, which lasted from September 2021 to May 2022, on developing a concept for the renewal of 41 municipalities of the GZM Metropolis in the context of demographic change, including in particular aging-friendly.
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