Design Camp is a seed blog for a social experiment in Art & Design. Based on the popular BarCamp events; ‘Design Camp’ is a super-condensed free and interactive ‘un-conference’ where networking, open critiques, design presentations, ‘creativity death matches’, group troubleshooting, demonstrations and debate are all explored by designers, artists and makers.

More on: BarCamp http://barcamp.org/ & BarCamp Blog http://barcamp.wordpress.com/

Some of the ideas around ‘Design Camp’ are not new, but creating a free ,interactive, open format learning experience for art+design is. Forums, panels or events that centralize information are often expensive, require travel and limit time for 1 on 1 interactions. Design Camp eliminates the ‘conference’ format and nurtures a membership free open group environment that promotes the design community, ideas, creativity and collaboration.

The recently resurrected blog @ designcamp.ca is open to comment/critique as is this Facebook group. As we develop agendas, announce presenters, activities and venues over the next few months we hope to have some feedback from the community.