William Drenttel

William Drenttel|Essays

Periodic Table of Swearing

This is a favorite intersection of ours: periodic tables and swearing.

William Drenttel|Event-Bellagio

Bellagio Design Symposium: Participants

Bellagio Design Symposium, April 12-14, 2010, sponsored by Winterhouse Institute with support from Rockefeller Foundation, involved 21 participants — curators, educators, designers, writers, and representatives of NGOs and foundations. …

William Drenttel|Event-Bellagio

Bellagio Design Symposium: Call for Participation

Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the "Museum" was a symposium sponsored by the Winterhouse Institute and held at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Bellagio Italy, April 12-14 2010. This is the initial …

William Drenttel|Projects

Sustainability Posters

Six leading designers make posters of the word Sustainability.

William Drenttel|Projects

Design for Change Contest

Kiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.

William Drenttel|Essays

After the Volcano, the First Flight Out of Healthrow (or Shame on American Express and British Airways)

Stuck in London by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökul, I flew one of the first flights out of Heathrow. Sadly, the flight was empty.

William Drenttel|Miscellaneous

Design Matters Wins People’s Choice Design Award

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced the People's Choice Design Award — and Design Observer's own Debbie Millman, the creator of the popular Design Matters series of podcast interviews, was the surprise winner.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, August 2011, where 28 participants from a variety of design and education programs discussed the challenges of social change initiatives within their schools, museums and …

William Drenttel|Essays

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William Drenttel|Books

Design + Craft: The Brazilian Path

Adélia Borges, a Brazilian curator has now published a remarkable book on the intersection of design and craft, artisanal objects and social innovation.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse Third Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program Description

The original program description for the Winterhouse Institute symposium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, August 2012 on social design in education.

William Drenttel|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: Background

As background to the Aspen Design Summit November 11-14, 2009, each participant was given a briefing book that included the following background, history, program and schedule.