Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

On Saturday, November 18, 2006 (10AM-12NOON) your students are invited to participate in a special "DRIVERS OF CHANGE WORKSHOP" given by Chris Luebkeman, director and leader of Arup's global Foresight and Innovation initiative. In 2002, Wallpaper Magazine named Chris as one of the ten futurist speculators and shapers "who will change the way we live." As an educator, he taught in the Departments of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [ETH] in Zurich, the University of Oregon, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. He created the first award winning on-line teaching site in Architecture in 1992. As a researcher, he initiated the research program at MIT entitled house_n; MIT's intelligent home of the future; a technological and tectonic exploration of integrating the digital with the physical. His engineering practice centered on conceptual design with artists and architects as well as on tensegral, mobile and deployable structures. His education included degrees in geology, structural engineering and architecture. He currently is spending most of his time and energy building a better understanding of the way in which the driving forces of change should be incorporated into more effective building/living/business strategies.

Date: Saturday November 18
Time: 10 AM-12 Noon
Location: Sullivan Center Room 1227
33 South State Street (12th Floor)

Please RSVP to Melanie Feerst mfeers@artic.edu. Space is limited.

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