Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator

Friday, June 10th | 6-9pm

Location: Pratt Manhattan campus | XCDE 608| $305 | 2 sessions | .6 C.E.U.s

This course is an introduction to sustainable best practices in the diverse global landscape of design-driven business. From global to local, urban to rural we are questioning the social role of the designer. This course actively discusses design approaches that are sensitive to the changing culture of design and builds on the emerging opportunities to collaborate with artisan communities.

Topics Include: Methods for integrating a social design approach, research strategies for design practicioners, tools for collecting data and approaching new markets, the practice of design ethnography and the analysis of merging economies.

Class time will be spent working on individual case studies and critiques combined with group discussions.

Instructor: Carmen Malvar

Carmen Malvar holds a B.S in Interiors from Maestro Mateo School of Art and Crafts, Spain and a B.S in Architecture with honors from Pratt Institute School of Architecture. She is principal of Atelier Malvar+ Tusch .Llc in New York, where she specializes as a designer and brand/commerce consultant. Carmen has been head architect for the international brand Zara (Inditex), conceptualizing new prototype stores to be implemented worldwide with a team of experts. She also has overseen international brand expansion and construction management for brands like Camper (shoe company) , Mango (clothing company), Tous (jewelry company) and Desigual in the last past years. She has designed and supervised implementation of international stores for more than thirty locations worldwide. Carmen works regularly as consultant with the Trade Commission of Spain in New York among others institutions, where her aim is to implement and develop strategies for brands where the design production enables local suppliers to be part of the local and global process without losing identity. Carmen is working on the research department at Elisava School of Design in Barcelona to create a structure that allows all developed research to be applied in a center activity for the European retailers, as well as one step forward on sustainable approach.

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To Register:

Students with a domestic address can register online here, beginning April 4th. Please follow the directions below-

Select “Continuing Education” on the right hand side of the page.
Select “Registration & Pay for SCPS Courses”.
Where it says “Select Course Code” enter “XCDE”.
Click “Submit” at the bottom of the page.
You will then see all classes running for the CDE program.
Select the courses you would like to take and press “Submit”.

Alternatively you can register in person starting April 4th at the Office of the Registrar at Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus in Myrtle Hall. For additional information regarding registration, you can contact the Registrar at 718 636 3663.