Nelly ben hayoun has been interviewed by slowe magazine for their future issue. Holly fraser, editor in chief will chat to nelly ben hayoun founder of the university of the underground nick eagleton cofounder, saboteur and alice bowsher londonbased illustrator and get real about the maddening, mysterious and messy place where ideas grow. Nelly ben hayoun appointed wetransfers first head of. Eileen and the soyuz chair, nelly ben hayoun mixed media contemporary physics exists at the crossroads between science and science fiction, testing our. Nelly ben hayoun is a fusion between andy warhol and albert einstein. Seti institute, nelly ben hayoun, joins wetransfer to design cosmic. Wetransfers and the university of the underground creative branch, wepresent, collaborated on a series of articles with the tutors and the advisory board of the university. In 2014, wired magazine awarded her with a wired innovation fellowship for her work to date and its significant. In the interview nelly talks about the university of the undergrounds 2019 new york summer school programme, boxing, the politics of sport and her own family history.
Watch wetransfers head of experiences nelly ben hayoun s mainstage presentation designing the impossible at the 2015 aiga design conference in. Nelly ben hayoun will be a keynote speaker at the primer conference in june 2020. Nelly will talk during the conferences main speaker event in atlanta on the 25th and 26th of june, an event dedicated to activating futures. Led by designer and wetransfers chief of experiences nelly ben hayoun, the university of the underground, run in collaboration with amsterdams sandberg instituut, offers a postgraduate curriculum that encourages students to use multidisciplinary design thinking to make a difference in the world. It isnt easy to pin down exactly what nelly ben hayoun does for a job. Too often when i do talks i make it sound like a very easy process. Led by designer and wetransfers chief of experiences nelly ben hayoun, the.
Nelly, who is our chief of experiences here at wetransfer, is never short of. The willy wonka of science and design, nelly ben hayoun brings subversion and chaos to the scientific world. The database tables have a simple structure with several child tables containing things like download details and file metadata belonging to a single parent table called transfers. Oh, and importantly, the university of the underground is free. She has previously been described as a social sculptor, a fusion between andy warhol and albert einstein and an inexhaustible source of renewable energy that, if harnessed, could eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, to name just a few. Nelly ben hayoun, designer of experiences seti institute.
A wetransfer link connects ideas, and does not lock them in. Dubbed the willy wonka of design, nelly ben hayoun, ph. Students will get twoyear scholarships, funded by partners like wetransfer, and some government money. We were all on the communication art and design course together at th.
Thats exactly the kind of atmosphere nelly ben hayoun is hankering after in her. Head of experiences at we transfer and a member of the space outreach and education. Now, as the scheme looks to expand its reach internationally, we catch up with designer nelly ben hayoun and arjun appadurai fresh from a summer programme in new york. Filesharing company no morewetransfer is aiming to become the pillar of creative communities. Nelly ben hayoun on her theory of total bombardment. So is it a quick process or a very slowburning one. Nelly ben hayoun france ten years experiences directing, leading and sustaining projects of large scale, large teams in and out institutions, and working and managing complex productions often described as impossible productions, designing and programming experiences that bring together the public with the sublime in their everyday and in. Debbie millman some of the best companies today are showing quite a lot of courage and supporting nonneutral stances. Gilles peterson on why music has never been more important.
There, she demonstrated where scientists had discovered one of the most hardcore organisms in our history. Debbie millman speaks to wetransfers cio georg petschnigg. June 12, 2014 summarytoday, wetransfer partners with head of experiences and collaborator, nelly ben hayoun, to launch politics. Wetransfer announced as one of the founding partners of. Nelly ben hayoun there is a creative instinct thats. Today, wetransfer partners with head of experiences and collaborator, nelly ben hayoun, to launch politics. How can you move from being a rat to becoming the president. Including, peaches, peaches christ, thomas greenall, paola antonelli and nelly.
Filmed on october 9, 2015 at the 2015 aiga design conference about this video. We talk to nelly ben hayoun, the willy wonka of design about harnessing volcanoes, collaborating with space scientists and dealing with disasters. Nelly ben hayoun will explain the challenges she faces in her own practice, trying to defy and design in the gravity of the hyperreal, a world where fiction is. Portions of content provided by tivo corporation 2020 tivo corporation whats new. Wetransfer is a cloudbased computer file transfer service. I met a native american from the blackfoot tribe in a. Born in valence, drome, france, ben hayoun now resides in london, united kingdom. Nelly ben hayoun there is a creative instinct thats been. As a girl at night, i felt uncomfortable with all the whispers. Com in a desire to always look beyond, to inspire and to share multidisciplinary practices and the scales of innovation, wetransfer announces the launch of the power of ten series in collaboration with their head of experiences nelly ben hayoun. File sharing service, wetransfer, has today appointed experience designer and director, nelly ben hayo. Wetransfer s and the university of the underground creative branch, wepresent, collaborated on a series of articles with the tutors and the advisory board of the university.
Wetransfer turns it up with 10gb transfers for plus users. Since 2009, manufacturers of the impossible who think in action. Nelly ben hayoun appointed wetransfers first head of experiences. When nelly ben hayoun announces a new project, you can bet your bottom dollar that its going to be unlike anything you have ever heard before. The international space orchestra, a project by nelly ben hayoun. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use.
Dubbed the willy wonka of design and science, nelly ben hayoun creates space for thoughts, debate, and provocation around the sociological and critical impact of new technologies and the human condition. As a keynote speaker, nelly s enthusiasm and intelligence make her the perfect choice for any company looking for ways to bring innovation and change to their business practices. Dubbed the willy wonka of design and science, awardwinning director and designer of experiences nelly ben hayoun is a critical explorer, a fearless and passionate provocateur. An awardwinning director and experience designer, she works with scientists and engineers to devise events and experiences. The world of extreme experience designer nelly ben hayoun. Despite the isolation nelly speaks about, in three years the universitys growth has been massive, welcoming hundreds of applicants.
We didnt know wed arrive at this point, but were glad we did. To overcome one of the challenges, humankinds inability to breathe on the red planet, experience designer nelly ben hayoun took a trip into the bowels of the earth, a platinum mine in south africa. Wetransfer is proud to announce that it is one of the founding partners of the ambitious and innovative education program, the university of the underground. What things do you share as a group in terms of creative vision. In the us she learned how to deal with the unfamiliarity of. Nelly ben hayoun appointed wetransfers first head of experiences director of the international space orchestra at nasa ames research center and designer of experiences at the seti institute, nelly ben hayoun, joins wetransfer to.
The file transfer service is proud to announce that it is one of the founding. Every week wetransfer features an entry from ben hayouns visual diary, documenting her. In the video, nelly ben hayoun, head of experiences for. Nelly ben hayoun appointed we transfers first head of experiences.
Nelly ben hayoun is an awardwinning french designer and filmmaker who creates multidimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theatre, politics, and design. Posts by guest author kieran yates ideas by wetransfer. The weekly illustrations will comment on the recent european elections and the state of european politics in general through art and. Design week recently visited wetransfer hq to discover more about their design led business. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Detailsfile sharing service, wetransfer, has today appointed experience designer and director, nelly ben hayoun, as the services first head of experiences. With wetransfer, each tool is designed to work by itself and function with other products, whether from wetransfer or not. She serves on the advisory council of meti messaging extraterrestrial intelligence. For further information or to book nelly ben hayoun, call us. Warp magazine, mexico part designer, part performance artist, part space traveller, nelly ben hayoun is an inexhaustible source of renewable energy that, if harnessed, could eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. Experiential designer nelly ben hayoun has been appointed as wetransfers first. After a threemonth trip to the us, photographer laura ben hayoun experienced her hometown, paris, in a whole new way.
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