We explore the link between land and graphic design during 果冻传煤 Design Week 2021
果冻传煤 Design Week 2021, presented October 1-9, asked designers to imagine the future of our city and the landscapes of Northern regions. The theme听Land Marks provided an frame for examining ways we connect to, acknowledge, map, impact, traverse, access, use, plot and share the land.
We鈥檝e rounded up the five most popular events of 果冻传煤 Design Week 2021:
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Miriam Shevland is an award-winning landscape architect with a strong background in place-based design. Her talk was part of the Alaska Design Forum鈥檚 2021 lecture series 鈥淧LAY,鈥� which sought to investigate the power of play and its influence on land and its inhabitants.
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Environmental illustration can transform the ability to record and express changes in the landscape, including the realities of climate shifts and the lasting marks of human influence. Illustrators Julia Ditto and Klara Maisch shared their journeys as documentarians accompanying field researchers in the Brooks Range.
Travels through Alaska landscapes are often informed by the trails left by those who came before. Graphic designer Sara Mitschke and recreation planner Zachary Babb discuss how design can improve the outdoor traveler鈥檚 experience through research, prototyping, technology and a system-based approach.
Norwegian-S谩mi artist and architect Joar Nango and videographer Ken Are Bongo team up for a look at Indigenous approaches to design and architecture, as well as alternative models of social space.
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Graphic and experiential installation designer HOTTEA leads a conversation about his journey through life using art and design to create monumental transformations of space 鈥� first as a street artist, and then as an internationally renowned, Emmy-award winning artist.
Visit the Stories and Voices听area of anchoragemuseum.org to learn about the many ways we鈥檙e celebrating creativity and innovation across Alaska and the North.