Written by Nepal Asatthawasi
Images by Natalia Argüello and Colleen Rae Smiley
The theme of the Designers Accord Town Hall on October 28th, 2010 - organized by interactive design studio More Than Us and design entrepreneurship non-profit NYDesigns and held in the gallery space of the former in Long Island City, NY - centered around "Designs + Sustainability + Profitability." The speakers were given a pretty wide berth on what they could address between those lines. Moderator Neil Chambers, a green building expert, Treehugger blogger and author of the forthcoming book Urban Green: The Future of Architecture, captured it best in stating that "Green issues, design issues, money issues and their intersections are going to give us a good idea of what business will look like in the future."
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