PAST EVENT: DESIGN/RELIEF PRESENTS RUEDI BAUR: WRITING OUR CITIES

As we mark Super Storm Sandy’s one-year anniversary, Design/Relief continues its series of conversation+action around creative placemaking. AIGA/NY is proud to invite inspiring leaders in community development and experts from around the world to present their stories and best practices in making places more visible, legible, navigable. Limited seating for this intimate conversation with Paris-based expert Ruedi Baur, Principal at Ruedi Baur Design, and founder of Civic City, a Geneva-based institute of critical research focused on the identity of places. Baur will walk us through a select number of case studies of his participatory design practice and academic labs, which often leverage the use of typography as a civic act.

RUEDI BAUR
Trained as a graphic designer at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zürich, French-Swiss designer Ruedi Baur settled in Lyon in the 80’s where he launched his first graphic design studio, before opening in 1989 in Paris Integral Ruedi Baur, with partners Pippo Lionni and Philippe Delis. His interdisciplinary practice specializes in exhibition design, as well as way-finding, identity systems and civic projects touching on creative placemaking issues. A prolific thinker, writer, critic and practitioner he has collaborated with a number of large cultural institutions, including the Centre Pompidou for which he redesigned its signage and identity system. He is close to the milieu of architecture and urban design and often intervenes in questions related to the cultural identity, branding and scenography of cultural infrastructures, cities and communities. As the ultimate European globetrotter, Baur has been teaching interdisciplinary design in schools such as Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zürich (ZHKZ), where he founded the Institute for Research Design2context. Most recently he has developed Civic City, a post-graduate research institute and is teaching at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva and at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris (ENSAD).

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