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  1. City Share: Meet PlayLab Wednesday, November 09, 2011

    On November 16th, City Share will feature The Office of PlayLab, Inc., founders Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin, who met several years ago as undergraduate Architecture students at Virginia Tech. After moving to New York and working with well-respected design firms, they quickly realized, they were bored and wanted to pair fun with work. They wanted to work towards solutions that the world didn’t know it needed. “PlayLab is here to explore, discover and learn. We can’t do that without play. Human innovation starts with human imagination.”

    Since forming PlayLab, they’ve been exploring social innovation projects around the world. Archie and Jeffrey have a background in graphic design, illustration, printmaking, architecture and industrial design, and they never view them as exclusive. “They are all related: they are working to solve problems, and helping the people involved. Graphic design and architecture may differ in their scale, scope and result, but they both have constraints and require working towards a solution,” Archie explained in an interview.

    Based out of Brooklyn, New York, PlayLab is currently engaged in building a floating and self-filtering pool in Manhattan’s East River, an interactive exhibition in Stockholm involving magnification, and Artypes, an informational, inspirational, educational, and economical art resource. Pie Lab, located in Greensboro, Alabama and one of their first projects, developed out of a two week Project M session as “an incubator for dispelling racial tensions in the surrounding areas.”

    Chattanooga Stand is excited to have Archie and Jeffrey bring a fun and innovative approach to community-focused design.  We hope to see you on Wednesday the 16th.

    CityShare is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
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    Posted by Dave Walker in Economy