Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Columbia has a two part event focusing on sustainability coming up. it
is some how tied to the massive change exhibit at the MCA
The first session, guest speakers are coming in to give
presentations on working bikes, urban habitats, and the concept of
"people powered." on Tuesday, November 14 from 4.30-7.00, (location tba).

then as a follow up, there will be an all day design charette where product design and interior
architecture students will work in small groups to apply the info from
massive change and these presentations to some design challenge. this
will be on Saturday November 18th, at 623 S. Wabash from 9-5

this will be a good time to share ideas and to see what other schools are producing. more info will be posted soon

Labels: group events, workshops

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.

Labels: workshops