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Designing Transformations
Introduction by Lauralee Alben, Principal, Alben Design LLC, DMI Muriel Cooper Fellow
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Lauralee Alben, Principal, Alben Design LLC, DMI Muriel Cooper Fellow |
To introduce the Muriel Cooper Prize winners, Lauralee Alben will reflect on the transformative nature of design, and its potential to be game-changing, culture-changing, and world-changing. During the decade since she received the inaugural Muriel Cooper Prize, Lauralee has accepted, as an integral part of her life, the challenge embedded within it: Keep questioning the boundaries of design. During the ensuing years, she discovered that designing on the edge requires us to clarify the core value of design and how it relates to what is meaningful, what is evocative, what is sustainable, and what is profitable. Only then can we surface solutions to the significant business, social, and environmental challenges we face today. Rest assured that Lauralee will urge us to respond to Muriel Cooper's insistent demand that we explore the quintessential questions. Try this one on: How can we design a life-sustaining world?
Biography: Lauralee Alben
Muriel Cooper Award
Muriel Cooper inspired DMI to create a coveted award to honor extraordinary people who “challenge our understanding and experience of interactive digital communication.”
The 2008 recipient of the prestigious Muriel Cooper Prize for ground-breaking achievements in advancing design, technology and communications in the digital environment will be honored at REMIX, the 33rd Annual Design Management Institute (DMI) Conference in Ogunquit, Maine. Join us to discover which pioneer is next in line and what affects their thought-provoking work has engendered.
Named for designer, educator and researcher, Muriel Cooper – one of the most influential modern designers of the 20th century – DMI created the award to celebrate mid-career professionals and add momentum to their explorations. Past recipients of the Muriel Cooper Prize are all renowned innovators who have expanded the possibilities of design and technology in powerful ways: Masamichi Udagawa (2006), John Maeda (2001), Dan Boyarksi (1999) and Lauralee Alben (1997).
Muriel Cooper was co-founder and director of MIT's Visible Language Workshop. Cooper and her colleagues in the Visible Language Workshop prototyped whole new ways to structure complex systems of knowledge in three dimensions. An inspiring mentor and innovator in the visual arts, Cooper died in 1994 at the age of 68.
The Muriel Cooper Prize is awarded based on six criteria:
Demonstrates original thinking and future promise. -
Challenges current understanding and experience of design and interactive digital communication.
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Work has improved or influenced the design profession, business, society or the environment.
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Recognized by their peers and through published work.
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Demonstrates a generous, generative, and enabling nature in their work.
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Inspires, communicates and speaks effectively as champions of the creative community.
As Muriel Cooper Fellows, Prize winners receive a financial award, a featured article in the Design Management Journal and the opportunity to deliver a major lecture at a DMI conference.
Learn more::Muriel Cooper Prize
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