The Daily Eckardt: Candy Chang

Candy Chang: With a background in graphic design, urban planning, and architecture, Candy likes to make cities more accessible and engaging.

Candy Chang, Berlin, 2010 (© Marc Eckardt)

She recently founded an organization called Civic Center that champions civic engagement through stories, services, products, and public installations. She is a 2009 TED Global Fellow and has worked in Johannesburg, New Orleans, Vancouver, Nairobi, and New York City on collaborative projects. She was an art director at The New York Times, a fellow at the Spatial Information Design Lab, a researcher at the Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab, and a project associate for Global Studio. For the past year, she’s been living in Helsinki developing the future of Nokia Money through ethnographic field research and design thinking. She’s performed mediocre minimal technopop and synth in NYC, Detroit, and Grenoble.

Candy Chang: Die ausgebildete Grafikerin, Stadtplanerin und Architektin Candy Chang will die offene, zugängliche Stadt. Ihre Initiative Civic Center engagiert sich für Geschichten, Services, Produkte und öffentliche Installationen in Projekten „von unten“. Candy Chang ist 2009 TED Global Fellow und arbeitete an Community Koproduktionen in Johannesburg, New Orleans, Vancouver, Nairobi und New York City. Sie war Art Director bei der New York Times, Fellow am Spatial Information Design Lab, Wissenschaftlerin im Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab und Projektbeauftragte für das Global Studio. Das Jahr 2009 verbrachte sie in Helsinki, wo sie in ethnografischer Feldforschung und Designtheorie die Zukunft für Nokia Money entwickelte. Candy Chang war außerdem eine eher bescheidene Performerin von Minimal Techno Pop und Synthpop in NYC, Detroit und Grenoble.

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Candy Chang

Candy Chang

With a background in graphic design, urban planning, and architecture, Candy likes to make cities more accessible and engaging. She recently founded an organization called Civic Center that champions civic engagement through stories, services, products, and public installations. She is a 2009 TED Global Fellow and has worked in Johannesburg, New Orleans, Vancouver, Nairobi, and New York City on collaborative projects. She was an art director at The New York Times, a fellow at the Spatial Information Design Lab, a researcher at the Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab, and a project associate for Global Studio. For the past year, she's been living in Helsinki developing the future of Nokia Money through ethnographic field research and design thinking. She's performed mediocre minimal technopop and synth in NYC, Detroit, and Grenoble.