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Update #2: Sample Interview From the Cities x Design Trip
This interview is taken from the Cities x Design trip that is now in progress. Our anticipated 'we will be broke' date is 31 July. We feel like the project is a worthy endeavor keep an eye on the website if you agree we would very much appreciate your support.
Update #1: Thanks for the Support!
It was a nice surprise to wake up this morning to your messages and contributions. We are working hard on getting everything together for the tour. Thanks for joining this crowd funding and crowd sourcing experiment.
We are currently working on the media strategy. The press kit is coming together. We'll send to it the local media of every city we visit. We hoping to generate some local interest stories before and during our trip.
We are also working on a FAQ page for the website. We are starting to receive enough questions to actually have content for a dedicated page. If you have questions don't hesitate to send an email. We'll get the answers to you and online quickly.
Ok, the web calls.
Talk soon,
Jay
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The Producers
The traveling team are international experts in the field of design, design promotion, social and urban studies, cultural heritage tourism, and events management. Their unique experience in managing, initiating, creating or planning cultural and creative events positions them well to author an informed, intelligent and visually stunning overview of the state of the American creative economy.
Sali Sasaki
Sali Sasaki, born in Yokohama, Japan and raised in Paris, France, is the former manager of the creative cities program of the United Nation’s only cultural agency, UNESCO.
Sali is a founding partner at FCI, a design consultancy focused on the creative transformation of places through design. As a design researcher and practitioner, she positions herself at the crossroads of communication design, urban development and socio-cultural studies.
Her ongoing research “Retail Therapy” on the role of design in the souvenir industry led to the 2008 Design DNA workshop which took place at the International Design Center in Nagoya. Sali holds an MA in communication design from the Royal College of Art, London.
Jay Corless
Jay Corless, born in Miami, Florida and raised as a cultural nomad, has just returned to the USA after 15 years of living abroad. He held several positions with UNESCO in Paris, France in web development, communication and cultural diplomacy fields. Jay is author of the UN’s 2002 International Year of Cultural Heritage information kit and developed the cultural diplomacy communication campaign that lead to the United States return to UNESCO in 2002.
He has most recently provided consulting services to the London Design Festival and Design Miami, both internationally respected design fairs. His MA study, Creative Revolution, How British Creative Industry Policy is Changing the World, received a distinction of merit from the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He is founding partner of FCI. Jay is also a feverish photographer, writer and painter.
