Design Day at the Yard

DESIGN DAY AT THE YARD 

With partners NYCxDESIGN, Smart Design, Methuselah Foundation, and featuring NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge

Design Open Studios: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

OVERVIEW
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a vibrant ecosystem of design – all phases of the design process from concept to prototyping to refinement unfold across our 300-acre campus. Step inside the Yard to meet entrepreneurs defining the future of design from production realization to sustainably sourced food and explore diverse design fields from fashion to photography to applied design and more.

The Yard is one of the city’s most iconic innovation centers with a legacy of supporting technology, invention, innovation, and workforce development for more than 200 years. As we undergo plans for expansion, the Yard is increasingly a hub for design and thought-leadership attracting local, national, and international brands.

This event is geared towards design professionals and innovation leaders – individual designers, business owners, and design-focused media outlets – as well as customers and clients looking to buy direct and collaborate with local designers. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is where the fortune 500 come to work with the most future-facing organizations.

DESIGN OPEN STUDIOS: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

Featured Partner: Smart Design
Smart Design helps ambitious organizations build the future. We are an independently-owned strategic design company that humanizes products, services, and experiences through deep research, insights and design strategies. Powered by passion and purpose, we design to help people and businesses thrive.

Featured Partner: Methuselah Foundation

Methuselah Foundation is a biomedical charity established to extend the healthy human lifespan. The Foundation incubates and sponsors mission-critical ventures, scientific research, and open innovation challenges that accelerate breakthroughs with the goal of making 90 the new 50 by 2030. In coordination with NASA Centennial Challenges, the Canadian Space Agency, and Impact Canada, the Methuselah Foundation administers the Deep Space Food Challenge.

Featured Guest: NASA Centennial Challenges

NASA Centennial Challenges were initiated in 2005 to directly engage the public in the process of advanced technology development. The program offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation. The program seeks innovations from diverse and non-traditional sources. Competitors are not supported by government funding and awards are only made to successful teams when the challenges are met.

Featured Presentation: NASA Deep Space Food Challenge Innovation Showcase at Smart Design 

NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is an international competition where the agency offers purse prize awards to U.S. teams and recognition to international teams. Teams are invited to create novel and game-changing food technologies or systems that require minimal inputs and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food outputs for long-duration space missions, while having the potential to benefit people on Earth. Come meet the teams and see their projects from Phases One and Two of the Deep Space Food Challenge.

Explore these additional open studios: 

Smart Design
5Ten Visuals
ECCO
Evan Z Crane
Fydelity
HUSH Studios
Kirrin Finch
MARCO BAGA
Matthew Grandin
Naval Cemetery Landscape
Refoundry
Scott Jordan Furniture
SIN
Tarform Motorcyles
Urban Homecraft
Urbanstrong
Work at Hand 

Drop into these showrooms: 

Hip Hop Closet
Kirrin Finch
Scott Jordan Furniture
SIN
Urbanstrong 

Enjoy food and drink:
Kings County Distillery
Rooftop Reds
Russ & Daughters
Transmitter Brewing  

FEATURED PANEL: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
“The future of food on Earth on beyond” at Smart Design 

Designing new solutions for deep space and local communities
Join John Anderson, Executive Director of Technology at Smart Design, and a selection of panelists working at the forefront of innovation as they discuss the future of food. Supporting the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge, they will discuss the systems needed to meet spaceflight demands that have not yet been established, how these new innovations might be used to fight food insecurity, and the effects of climate change on our global food supply.

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CHECK-IN 

Building 77
141 Flushing Ave (at Vanderbilt Ave)

OR

Sands Street Gate
399 Sands Street (at Navy Street)

Register for “Design Day” open studios from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-day-at-the-yard-tickets-588187975067

Register for “the future of food on Earth and beyond” panel from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at https://go.smartdesignworldwide.com/future-of-food

Learn more at https://brooklynnavyyard.org/visit/programs-tours.