008—The Start of Summer: Deem at LA Design Festival
Come join us at Helms Bakery District on Saturday June 24.
Hello!
LA Design Festival is happening June 22-25, and Deem is curating two conversations at Helms Bakery District on Saturday, June 24.
Our programming puts Deem co-founder and creative director Nu Goteh in dialogue with Radha Mistry, on the practice and industry of foresight, and Sekou Cooke, on the theory and emergence of Hip Hop architecture. LADF creates a place for members of the design community to explore, collaborate, and engage with one another. These conversations will consider how community interests can be prioritized in design pathways that both hypothesize the future and reexamine the past.
Admission is free.
Conversation 01: Nu Goteh + Radha Mistry
Foresight, futuring, and prospective design
Who
Nu Goteh in conversation with Radha Mistry about foresight as a practice and an industry.
When
Saturday June 24, 2023
3–4pm
Where
Helms Design Center
8745 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
About the Speaker
Radha Mistry is Arup’s Americas Foresight Leader and an Associate Principal in the Los Angeles office. Radha’s background spans architecture, narrative environments, and strategic foresight and she has been a leading voice in the development of foresight both in professional practice and academia, building foresight fluency across organizations like Autodesk, where she served as Foresight leader, and working with executive leadership to drive key foresight-led initiatives. Radha serves on the Foresight Advisory Council for the Middle East Institute and teaches as part-time faculty on the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at The New School (Parsons) and the DesignMBA program at the California College of the Arts.
Conversation 02: Nu Goteh + Sekou Cooke
Curator Interview
Who
Nu Goteh in conversation with Sekou Cooke about Hip Hop architecture and his traveling exhibition “Close to the Edge.”
When
Saturday June 24, 2023
5–6pm
Where
Helms Design Center
8745 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
About the Speaker
Sekou Cooke is an architect, urban designer, researcher, and curator. Born in Jamaica and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, he is the Director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte, the 2021/2022 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.
See you there!
Sincerely,
the Deem Team