| The Design, Art & Technology Symposium began as the Digital Arts Symposium at the UNC School of the Arts in 2005, with funding from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. The symposium grew during the next three years to include collaborators in higher education and industry throughout North Carolina's Piedmont area.
As the seed grant wound down, the collaborators planned to sustain the event through an annual rotation among participating sites in the Triad. DATS continues to grow as a core event cultivating and promoting the region's creative economy. DATS 2010 explores how food-related designs can help to develop a sustainable culture of healthy lifestyles through good eating. Interdisciplinary teams are creating implements, furnishings and environments to promote thinking and learning about healthy food, in every aspect of our experience. Creative works featured at DATS'10 reflect consideration of nutritious food, sensible diets, appealing tables, creative kitchens, convivial dining spaces, local growing, conscientious farming, fair trade, efficient supply chains, equitable distribution, engaging education and vibrant regional growth. The legacy of Charles & Ray Eames informs appreciation of the power in considering different scales of experience for generating effective art and designs. Powers of 10 Day is part of the DATS'10 program and inspires many of the events and featured projects.
Signs at an early event captured the optimistic spirit of our economic development mission: There once was a place, just east of the mountains, where people grew plants they fashioned into cloth and furniture. They wove and stitched, hammered and carved, bartered and sold, until the region flourished. They created places to worship and learn, to dance and sing, and to dramatize age-old lessons about human condition. As materials evolved they continued to hone their arts, crafts and design – until one day, everyone could see that they were the seedbed for a new era of creative vitality. The designers exhibiting here demonstrate the Piedmont Triad's potential for transformative growth. Through a range of materials, tools and techniques, they show resourcefulness in seeking inspirations, ingenuity in conceiving ideas, adeptness in developing renditions, and finesse in delivering solutions. Resourcefulness Ingenuity Adeptness Finesse
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