Talks

Design Miami’s Design Talks program presents the design world’s most compelling current topics, bringing together the creatives, collectors and critics actively influencing design discourse and production.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30/

10:30–11:30AM
Drawing Inspiration from Visual Communication/

12–1PM
Space as Social Catalyst/
Tony Chambers/ Editor-in-Chief, Wallpaper
Ole Scheeren/ Principal, Büro Ole Scheeren

1:30–2:30PM
Resilient Buildings/
United Nations and Design Miami/ Building LegacyTalk/
An Elliman Talk/
Paul Goldberger/ Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair
Jean Nouvel/ Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect

3–4PM
Design for Survival: Weighing Ideals and Realities for Sustainable Goals/
United Nations and Design Miami/ Building Legacy Talk/
Yves Béhar/ Founder and Principal Designer, fuseproject, and Co-founder, August
Aaron Dorf/ Project Director, Architect, Snøhetta
Weiping Wu/ Professor and Director, Urban Planning Program, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Kulapat Yantrasast/ Founding Partner and Creative Director, wHY

Moderated by Mitchell Toomey/ Director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign

6–7PM
Design Visionary SHoP Architects/
An Elliman Talk/
Gregg Pasquarelli/ Principal, SHoP Architects
William Sharples/ Principal, SHoP Architects
Christopher Sharples/ Principal, SHoP Architects

Moderated by Beatrice Galilee/ Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1/

1:30–2:30PM
Learning From the Past to Change the Future/
United Nations and Design Miami/ Building Legacy Talk/
Prasad Boradkar/ Professor and Director at Arizona State University, Design Lead at Google, Advanced Technology and Projects
Abrima Erwiah/ President and Co-Founder, Studio One Eighty Nine Terrol
Drew Johnson/ CEO and President, Tohono O’odham Community Action
Manvendra Singh/ Culture Conservationist

Moderated by Julian Rose/ Senior Editor, Artforum, Co-founder, formlessfinder

3–5:30PM
A Scientific Spirit: Symposium on Emergent Design Strategies/
United Nations and Design Miami/ Building Legacy Talk/
Nick Gelpi/ Principal, GELPI Projects LLC and Assistant Professor of Architecture, Florida International University
Andrew Kudless/ Associate Professor, California College of the Arts, Founder, Matsys
Jørgen Platou Willumsen and Stian Korntved Ruud/ Founders of Kneip
Oana Stanescu/ Founding Partner FAMILY New York, Friend of +Pool
Skylar Tibbits/ Co-Director, Self-Assembly Lab, MIT, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Architecture
Louisa Zahareas/ Conceptual Designer

Moderated by Steven Tepper/ Dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University

6–7PM
Color, Form and Space/
An Elliman Talk/
Piero Lissoni/ Italian Master Architect
Yvette Mattern/ Artist
Yvonne Force Villareal/ Co-Founder, Art Production Fund

Moderated by Rodman Primack/ Chief Creative Officer, Design Miami/ 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2/

2–3PM
Be Yourself/
Daniel Lismore/ Artist, Stylist, Designer
Paula Wallace/ President and Founder, Savannah College of Art and Design

Presented by SCAD

4:30PM
Beyond Borders/
Jerry van Ecyk/ Landscape Architect, Principal at !melk Landscape
& Urban Design
Michael Sorkin/ Architect & Author, Principal at Michael Sorkin Studio
Murat Tabanlioglu/ (Int’l. Assoc. AIA), Principal at Tabanlioglu Architects

6PM
Youth Culture and the Next Era in Design/
Virgil Abloh/ Designer and Chief Creative Director of Off-WhiteTM
Misha Kahn/ Designer
Philippe Malouin/ Industrial Designer

Moderated by Rosanne Somerson/ President, Rhode Island School of Design 

Free and open to the public
Location/
Design Talks Theater designed by DDG