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Great Minds Of Design

Season 1 2012
NR

  • 2012-04-23T04:00:00Z on CBC (CA)
  • 22m
  • 2h 12m (6 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Sustainable designers make products that consider the effects their creation have on culture and society. Can design affect change?

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2012-04-23T04:00:00Z

1x01 Urban Redesign

Series Premiere

1x01 Urban Redesign

  • 2012-04-23T04:00:00Z22m

Street artists redesign the cityscape with clever urban interventions, that use natural elements as their materials.

2012-01-01T05:00:00Z

1x02 Solar Stained Glass

1x02 Solar Stained Glass

  • 2012-01-01T05:00:00Z22m

Sarah Hall designs architectural glass for buildings around the world. Now she installs one of her most ambitious designs to date, a series of giant solar energy collecting windows in a cathedral. It will be the first Cathedral in the world to incorporate solar energy into its design.

2012-05-07T04:00:00Z

1x03 Designing Cultures Haiti

1x03 Designing Cultures Haiti

  • 2012-05-07T04:00:00Z22m

Designer Patty Johnson travels to the devastated country of Haiti, where she works with local artisans and craftspeople.

2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

1x04 Architecture by Nature

1x04 Architecture by Nature

  • 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z22m

Architect Trevor McIvor creates homes designed to take advantage of the innate energy efficiencies found in nature.

2012-01-01T05:00:00Z

1x05 Designing With Ghosts

1x05 Designing With Ghosts

  • 2012-01-01T05:00:00Z22m

Nicholas Kennedy works with the ghosts of printing’s past, by using salvaged equipment. His style of “anti-design” or “found design” insists that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you create. He suddenly makes the dying art of bookmaking seem very much alive.

Season Finale

2012-05-28T04:00:00Z

1x06 Dream Big. Do Good. Spread Joy.

Season Finale

1x06 Dream Big. Do Good. Spread Joy.

  • 2012-05-28T04:00:00Z22m

No project is too big or too small for Helen Kerr. She designs everything from physical objects to abstract concepts.

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