For this DesignPhiladelphia 2020 event, please join us on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 6:30pm for a virtual discussion about navigating your career in the midst of uncertainty. How has the pandemic changed the design industry and how can we adapt and embrace these changes?
Join our speakers, Lucinda Sanders (MLA’89), chief executive officer of OLIN and adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School and Carissa Lim (C’16 MPD’17), senior service designer at Kaiser Permanente, Innovation & Design, Jack Conviser (MCP'09), city planner at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and others as they engage with these important questions. The talk will be moderated by Sarah Rottenberg, adjunct assistant professor and executive director of the Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. We hope to motivate and inspire designers entering the workforce as well as current designers preparing for the next chapter of their career.
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About the Speakers:
Lucinda Sanders (MLA’89) is the CEO of OLIN and Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School, and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Lucinda’s recent prominent projects include the Carnegie Hall Rooftop in New York City and the Delaware River Waterfront Master Plan in Philadelphia. Lucinda also led an entry for the 2014 Presidio Gateway Competition in San Francisco. Under her leadership OLIN/LABS was formed. OLIN/LABS is focused on research-based, public interest design that positively impacts the people and environments of the 21st century with solutions that create a more just, humane and livable world. She co-authored the book OLIN: Placemaking, published by Monacelli Press, which features a selection of the OLIN's most celebrated landscape architecture, urban design and planning projects. The book includes a transcribed conversation focusing on the future of the landscape architecture profession. In 2008, OLIN received the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design. Lucinda is the former President and the current Vice President of Leadership at the Landscape Architecture Foundation. In her role, she is working to identify and develop venues and partnerships to cultivate the next generation of leaders.
Carissa Lim (C16’ MPD’17) is a Design and Innovation Lead at Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in the USA. In her role, she focuses on using service design to amplify the voices of patients, providers, and staff to design solutions for complex healthcare challenges. Carissa has tackled projects ranging from designing ways to improve firearm safety and education, integrate telehealth into the hospital and home space, curating the technology experience for the KP School of Medicine, and developing curriculum to spread human-centered design across the organization. She holds a Masters in Integrated Product Design from the University of Pennsylvania and has held roles at the Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation, University of Vermont Medical Center, and more.
Sarah Rottenberg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Executive Director, Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's program that bridges design, business, and engineering. Sarah specializes in bringing people together to design products and experiences that are desirable, meaningful, feasible, and viable. She is adept at articulating design processes and methods, teaching Design Thinking and Design Process to students across the university. Sarah is a cofounder of Lia Diagnostics, a company that has developed a flushable pregnancy test - a sustainable product that puts women in control of their own experience. Sarah began her career as a design strategist at Doblin, Inc. and was a directing associate at Jump Associates. She has a MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BS from Georgetown University.