Switchyards: The Podcast, Brings You The Future of Atlanta...As Recorded In Front of A Live Studio Audience!

One more time, we are blown away by the response this event got. The first two hundred seats were gone almost before we posted the event. We found a second venue that was twice as big and it sold out even faster, and we had a waiting list of 1,000 people who just wanted to hear people talk about design. 

Our partner, MODA, coordinated this recording with Switchyards. If you weren't there, its a great listen. If you, were, kick back and just groove on the good ideas again.

Thanks To MODA who did most of the heavy lifting.

Thanks to our Moderator - Thomas Wheatley

Thanks to the Panel, Tim Keane, Ryan Gravel, Lisa Gordon, Jim Irwin, and Greg Burbidge.

Thanks to all the volunteers and staff at all the organizations. Fantastic.

 

Help the Architecture and Design Center Do What it Does, Only Better.

This is your chance to become a philanthropist at an affordable price. We'll be rolling out a full blown fundraising campaign in the new year, but you can give us a big head start by polishing up that monocle and clicking the "Donate" button bellow. Any $25 donation up through the end of the year will get you a shout-out in our next news letter and on Facebook. (Its also tax deductible)

You can see what we're all about and some of the things we've done by reading below.

Anyone interested in sponsoring ADC in a more intensive manner, you can reach us at 

contact@adc.org

And thanks to our board, our 2015 Sponsor, HL Strategy. 

Thank you,

Nathan Koskovich, Chair of ADC.

  

Atlanta needs great urban design to attract the best and brightest, remain a global business center, and grow as a center for culture and innovation. With great design, we can develop buildings, infrastructure and communities for better place to work and live. The Architecture and Design Center (ADC) is working to be Atlanta’s design champion.

ADC believes that the practice of design is a fundamental part of creating a healthy world. Before we can make anything, we first have design it. We can design well and make our cities and towns healthy, convenient, and beautiful, or we can design poorly and make them, inefficient, ugly, even sickly. I know many of you share this belief in design. I know that your belief is based in your understanding of the power of design.

ADC is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing an understanding of design and its impact on the world to the general public. Our board and volunteers are drawn from the wide range of individuals who care about and understand the power of design. We are Architects, Landscape Architects, City Planners, Engineers, Community Leaders, Design Fans, and Business Leaders contribute to our efforts.

In just under two years of full operations ADC has launched several impactful programs:

Accomplishments

Georgia Design Archive Partnership

ADC, the Georgia and Atlanta chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Georgia Tech have initiated the Georgia Archive Partnership. Together we have recognized the pressing need to create an expanded archive of significant architecture and other design documents and objects in order to record the culture and history of architecture and related fields in Georgia. The archive will afford opportunity for research and for the organization of exhibits, lectures and other activities centered around the collection.

Shoptalk Podcast

The ADC conducts a series of interviews with local design professionals and advocates that are released regularly through our blog, Facebook and newsletters. The purpose of the program is to raise awareness of Atlanta’s design heritage and to provide an insider look at how designers see the world and their role in shaping it.

Design+Dining

A new joint program of ADC and AIA Atlanta creates fun and educational events that provide opportunities a venue to celebrate Atlanta’s thriving and nationally significant restaurant scene while exploring the role of design played in creating those environments.

Bridgescape Competition

In order to help raise the quality of design in Atlanta, ADC, Central Atlanta Progress, the Midtown Alliance, and AIA Atlanta partnered to create and manage a design competition that will result in a real improvement to the built environment. It is well known that freeways divide major parts of our city. ADC and its partners created a design competition in which entrants were asked to design pedestrian environments over this highway system. The winning entries will be built.

Turning Point: Atlanta on the Verge Public Panel

The Architecture and Design Center (ADC) and the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)co-hosted Commissioner Tim Keane and other members of Atlanta's design and development community for a public conversation on the future of Atlanta; its design needs, challenges, strengths and goals.

We've had great success in a short period of time. Now we aim to build on this success by cultivating a progressive design movement in the Atlanta region. We need your help to engage people from all walks of life who demand better design and better communities. Please join us in our efforts to promote higher standards of design for our communities.