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Tue, Apr 07, 2015 @ 02:00 PM   $11   Impact Hub New York, 394 Broadway, Level 5
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-large;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 107%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Designercise is the brain workout for flexible and agile thinking</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">D<SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">esignercise Ideation Workouts are quick productive distractions into your afternoon brain slump! Learn mental workout tools that flex your brain through fun and fast paced ideation techniques. Our boredom busting brain experiences develop critical and flexible thinking skills, explore rapid ideation and help brighten up your grey matter! </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">With a use it or lose it approach' to our grey matter, we have developed a series of techniques to bust brodom, stimulate creative thought and refine your problem solving skills. </SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;">Designercise is a mental workout and ideation process for stretching your thought patterns and building mental flexibility for maximum cognitive prowess. At a Designercise workout you get to massage, stretch and tone your thinking, ideation and solutioning capabilities.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="white-space: pre-wrap;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;"><STRONG STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-large;">What do you get out of Designercise session?</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">> Invigorate your brain and heighten your productivity</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Learn ideation processes for quick evaluations and idea generations</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Collaborate with strangers, solving problems, making solutions</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Understand decision making though interconnected thought systems</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Disassemble established ideas and put them back together in better ways<SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Figure out your cause and effect in our social and environmental systems</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;">> Make better decisions</SPAN></P>
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<P><IMG STYLE="float: right;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/120412133/leylastanding.png" ALT="Leyla Acaroglu" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="195"></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.leylaacaroglu.com/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">Leyla Acaroglu</SPAN></A>(A-jar-a-loo) is a New York based Australian designer, social scientist, sustainability provocateur and entrepreneur.She is the founder of<SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="http://www.un-schools.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">TheUn-School of Disruptive Design</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN>, and two design agencies; New York based<SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="http://www.disruptdesign.co/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">Disrupt Design</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN>and Melbourne based<SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="http://www.ecoinnovators.com.au/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">Eco Innovators</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN>,both multidisciplinary studios focused on pioneeringsocial and environmental change by and through design. Her work spans a variety of locations, fields and mediums,and is driven byastrong desire to effect, create, and see positive pro-sustainability change in the world. She has just completed her PhD on how to make effective change.</P>
<P>Leyla is a well-respected international speaker, having presented on the<SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="http://www.ted.com/talks/leyla_acaroglu_paper_beats_plastic_how_to_rethink_environmental_folklore" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">mainstage atTED2013 in Longbeach</SPAN></A></SPAN>, along with two other TED talks (<SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpoFHnELels" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">TEDx Sydney</SPAN></A></SPAN>and<SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lOSIHWOp2I" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">TEDx Melbourne</SPAN></A></SPAN>), key noted the<SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="http://www.aiga.org/video-HHH-2013-acaroglu/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">AIGA Design Conference</SPAN></A></SPAN>,<SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><A HREF="https://vimeo.com/74283382" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; letter-spacing: .4pt;">Bonier Grid</SPAN></A></SPAN>and a host of other keynotes. She is a highly skilled communicator and passionatepresenter with her writing being published in a host of design magazines and the New York Times. </P>
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<P><IMG STYLE="float: left;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/120412133/yvette1.jpg" ALT="Yvette King Disrupt design" WIDTH="200"></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Yvette King</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">is a creative producer and artist at<SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><SPAN STYLE="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><SPAN><A STYLE="outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px;" HREF="http://www.un-schools.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="outline: 0px; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px;">TheUn-School of Disruptive</SPAN></SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><A STYLE="outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px;" HREF="http://www.un-schools.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="outline: 0px; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px;">Design</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">.</SPAN>Before moving to New York in 2014 to start un-doing things she ran galleries, strange events and education experiences in Australia, while working in installation and fabrication across the arts community. She brings to the team an effervescent personality, her excellent curatorial expertise and an abundance of skills from welding to sewing (and conveniently bike maintenance abilities). At the Un-School she is responsible for member collaborations, running workshops and projects as well as making sure our program happens in an all-round amazing way.<STRONG></STRONG></P>
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