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. In 2014, wired magazine awarded her with a wired innovation fellowship for her work to date and its significant. Nelly ben hayoun appointed we transfers first head of experiences. Today, wetransfer partners with head of experiences and collaborator, nelly ben hayoun, to launch politics. In the us she learned how to deal with the unfamiliarity of. Every week wetransfer features an entry from ben hayouns visual diary, documenting her.
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. Born in valence, drome, france, ben hayoun now resides in london, united kingdom. 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. Nelly ben hayoun, designer of experiences seti institute.
Nelly ben hayoun there is a creative instinct thats been. The file transfer service is proud to announce that it is one of the founding. Nelly ben hayoun is an awardwinning french designer and filmmaker who creates multidimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theatre, politics, and design. Filmed on october 9, 2015 at the 2015 aiga design conference about this video. File sharing service, wetransfer, has today appointed experience designer and director, nelly ben hayo. Nelly ben hayoun has been interviewed by slowe magazine for their future issue.
Posts by guest author kieran yates ideas by wetransfer. Wetransfer turns it up with 10gb transfers for plus users. The weekly illustrations will comment on the recent european elections and the state of european politics in general through art and. 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. 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. We were all on the communication art and design course together at th. Wetransfer announced as one of the founding partners of. Nelly ben hayoun will be a keynote speaker at the primer conference in june 2020. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. 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.
Including, peaches, peaches christ, thomas greenall, paola antonelli and nelly. A wetransfer link connects ideas, and does not lock them in. Experiential designer nelly ben hayoun has been appointed as wetransfers first. June 12, 2014 summarytoday, wetransfer partners with head of experiences and collaborator, nelly ben hayoun, to launch politics. 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. Filesharing company no morewetransfer is aiming to become the pillar of creative communities. What things do you share as a group in terms of creative vision. Nelly ben hayoun appointed wetransfers first head of. For further information or to book nelly ben hayoun, call us. Nelly ben hayoun on her theory of total bombardment. Oh, and importantly, the university of the underground is free. 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.
Debbie millman some of the best companies today are showing quite a lot of courage and supporting nonneutral stances. Nelly, who is our chief of experiences here at wetransfer, is never short of. Nelly ben hayoun there is a creative instinct thats. Nelly ben hayoun appointed wetransfers first head of experiences. We didnt know wed arrive at this point, but were glad we did. Portions of content provided by tivo corporation 2020 tivo corporation whats new. Design week recently visited wetransfer hq to discover more about their design led business. 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. Gilles peterson on why music has never been more important. The world of extreme experience designer nelly ben hayoun. With wetransfer, each tool is designed to work by itself and function with other products, whether from wetransfer or not. In the video, nelly ben hayoun, head of experiences for.
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. 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. The international space orchestra, a project by nelly ben hayoun. There, she demonstrated where scientists had discovered one of the most hardcore organisms in our history. 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. An awardwinning director and experience designer, she works with scientists and engineers to devise events and experiences. Nelly will talk during the conferences main speaker event in atlanta on the 25th and 26th of june, an event dedicated to activating futures. 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. 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. As a girl at night, i felt uncomfortable with all the whispers. Watch wetransfers head of experiences nelly ben hayoun s mainstage presentation designing the impossible at the 2015 aiga design conference in. Eileen and the soyuz chair, nelly ben hayoun mixed media contemporary physics exists at the crossroads between science and science fiction, testing our. Seti institute, nelly ben hayoun, joins wetransfer to design cosmic. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use.
Since 2009, manufacturers of the impossible who think in action. Thats exactly the kind of atmosphere nelly ben hayoun is hankering after in her. After a threemonth trip to the us, photographer laura ben hayoun experienced her hometown, paris, in a whole new way. 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. 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. How can you move from being a rat to becoming the president. To celebrate this milestone, wetransfer doubled the transfer capacity of paidfor plus accounts from 5gb to 10gb. Despite the isolation nelly speaks about, in three years the universitys growth has been massive, welcoming hundreds of applicants.
Head of experiences at we transfer and a member of the space outreach and education. Students will get twoyear scholarships, funded by partners like wetransfer, and some government money. 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. Wetransfer is a cloudbased computer file transfer service. Led by designer and wetransfers chief of experiences nelly ben hayoun, the. Detailsfile sharing service, wetransfer, has today appointed experience designer and director, nelly ben hayoun, as the services first head of experiences. 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.
The willy wonka of science and design, nelly ben hayoun brings subversion and chaos to the scientific world. It isnt easy to pin down exactly what nelly ben hayoun does for a job. 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. She serves on the advisory council of meti messaging extraterrestrial intelligence. We talk to nelly ben hayoun, the willy wonka of design about harnessing volcanoes, collaborating with space scientists and dealing with disasters. So is it a quick process or a very slowburning one. I met a native american from the blackfoot tribe in a. Too often when i do talks i make it sound like a very easy process. Debbie millman speaks to wetransfers cio georg petschnigg. Nelly ben hayoun is a fusion between andy warhol and albert einstein. Dubbed the willy wonka of design, nelly ben hayoun, ph.
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