Dong-Ping Wong announced as speaker

Designer of environments

Specialising in public, cultural and hi-density mixed-use buildings, Wong earned his Masters of Architecture from Columbia University (2006) and his Bachelor’s from UC Berkley (2001). In an interview with Ssense, Wong explained that while he was at Berkeley, the school he was at was called the College of Environmental Design and that he only recently started thinking about architecture in that way, as an ‘environment’.

You’re designing environments, but not necessarily in an ecological sense. Everything around you, whether it’s the four walls you’re in, the air temperature, how many plants you put in your place – all those things are an atmosphere you’re creating. You’re designing a component of a much larger environment, which made us realise that we have a bigger responsibility. The environment you grow up in or live in affects how you view the world, what your priorities are, how often you see your friends, how healthy you are or aren’t.

Kanye West's volcano

One of Family’s fans was the musician, designer, and entrepreneur Kanye West. They collaborated when Stanescu designed the 50-foot-tall volcano (and an accompanying moon-like disc) that appeared on stage for West’s 2013-14 Yeezus tour. “Well, of the people we work with, the best are the ones with a strong sense of their gut,” says Wong in an interview with Curbed. “Kanye is that person,” Wong laughs. “He’ll look at things and say: ‘That’s it!'”

Illustration to reality.#YeezusTour @familynewyork pic.twitter.com/P479Jr2JoV

— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) November 14, 2017

What if you could change the way #NewYorkers see their #rivers, just by giving them a chance to #swim in it? pic.twitter.com/F980DSh8zL

— + POOL (@pluspoolny) January 9, 2017

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