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We hope to share the inspiring power of creativity and art with the students of 'Casa da Criança Amor & Arte'; an arts and community center anticipated to open on July 21 in Jataí, Goiás, Brasil. The Arts Center was built by the Love & Art Children's Foundation. 
Our 5-meter high sculpture - named 'Reach' - aims to inspire the young students of the school as it represents an open stairway that reaches the sky. Fabricated with the generous support of Brazilian steel company, Mekal, the 1.5-ton sculpture is made from the assembly of QuaDror squares. 'Reach' was unveiled yesterday night at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture in Sao Paulo - It is now part of the exhibition curated and produced by Love & Art Children's Foundation to celebrate the opening of the center.

MuBE | Museu Brasileiro da Escultura
July 2-8
Avenida Europa, 218 Sao Paulo, 01449-000, Brazil

The piece was fabricated with the help of Industrial Origami folding technology with the generous support and the expertise of Brazilian manufacturing company MEKAL.
Thanks to BOOMSPDESIGN for initiating international creative dialogues in Sao Paulo and for introducing Studio Dror to Mekal.
 

"I feel like I never left the imaginary world in which I would find inspiration when I was a child. It was fed by images of Rodin's sculpture, paintings and colors from old European masters that I would find and collect. I was constantly drawing and dreaming. I am the same today actually. I only have more references and sources of inspiration, as well as more knowledge and access to execute and materialize my visions. I am an advocate and a true believer of the importance of artistic education for the healthy growth of one's mind. For this, I am honored and pleased to be able to contribute to the Love & Art Children's Foundation educative platform in Brazil. It feels great to know that my artistic expression can be part of the educational environment of the Love & Art school and that it may inspire the students and help them feel that sky is the limit.
My sculpture is a bridge between creative vision andtechnical execution, and metaphorically it means to bridge the ground to the sky as an open stairway. I wish to inspire children's creativity and dreams with it."

The sculpture piece consists of assembled QuaDror squares, clustered in a way to form an open stairway to the sky. The QuaDror geometry is one that Dror discovered in 2006 and which he has since investigated in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment. The unique geometry has unfolded a wide scope of advantages for construction that lead to design application ideas for product and architecture.

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Dror teamed up with legendary luggage design brand Tumi to create an innovative and transformative design for the renown luggage brand, whilst the Wapping Project's director Jules Wright was commissioned to create an unusual campaign for the launch of the collaboration. The result was a Dror for Tumi installation at Tom Dixon's MOST, featuring a short film entitled 'Passaggio' which documented a dark and surreal journey from Cambridge to Milan.

Tumi Tegra-Lite Campaign
Creative Direction

'Passaggio' is an installation marking the launch of the Dror for Tumi collection of bags. It is a dark, surreal thriller that begins in Cambridge then races across Europe, shot on location in France, England, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.
Direction: Jules Wright
Photography: Thomas Zanon-Larcher 

Read more on the event at MOST.

On March 15^th, Dror gave a sneak preview of his 11 piece luggage collection for Tumi, at the ILIVETOMORROW Gallery in Hong Kong.
See more photos of the event at Hypebeast.

Dror’s studio is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Peacock chair by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of Dror’s iconic pieces, the chair is now on display at the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of the museum.

For a video interview with Dror, Complex Magazine visited the studio and asked him about how his favorite childhood toys
inform his designs.

On October 12th, the Buckminster Fuller Institute and studio Dror together invited a small group of thinkers and doers of Architecture and Design to discuss the whole-systems design thinking and their efforts to push their practices towards a more ecological and socially-responsible place. The framework for these conversations was drawn by Buckminster Fuller’s thinking; informed by a critically important approach to solving our increasingly complex, interrelated global crises - an approach Fuller called comprehensive anticipatory design science.  This first conversation event aspired to trigger ongoing conversations in a group of forward thinkers and peers of the design and architecture fields. Guests and panelists included Bill Browning - founding member of the USGBC and founder-ceo of Terrapin Bright, and Hilary Brown - board member of the Buckminster Fuller institute - Hilary teaches sustainable design at the Princeton and Columbia University Schools of Architecture. 

See photos of the event on our Facebook page. 

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Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! is a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops. The two-day event brings together designers, architects, philanthropists, media and business representatives under one roof to talk about the collective challenges, goals and lessons learned in humanitarian design and how to move the field forward. A Design Open Mic allows emerging and established designers and architects to present their projects to an audience hungry to soak up new ideas. The seven-minute presentation format for Design Open Mic keeps the pace rapid-fire and engaging. One-on-one workshops with community development experts allow participants to go away with real lessons learned.

This year's Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! will take place on Oct. 21st and 22nd at the Steelcase showroom and the Center for Architecture in New York City.

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