> ddyment wrote:
>
> a friend is looking to get grant funding to attend conferences,
> symposia, etc.
>
> events along these lines
> scheduled for the forthcoming year?
This came in today:
AIGA and COLLAB
presents
Intersection: Across the Divide
a symposium exploring how ideas connect and get communicated
Seven speakers
and the intersections that fascinate them
education, technology, politics, science, media, space
One bridge
across the divide that separates
audience and speakers
designers and consumers
doers and thinkers
Come ready to be energized, think and have fun
Place
The Great Room, at Moore College of Art and Design
Date
Friday December 1, 2000
Time
1:00pm to 5:00pm. Reception to follow.
For more information on this event, call Alina Wheeler at 215 483 0700.
To reserve seats download a registration form at www.aigaphilly.org.
On site registration
Cost of symposium is $125.
(All profits will be donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's
Contemporary
Design Collection. )
The speakers
Ellen Lupton, curator at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Most recently she co-organized the Design Triennial: Design Culture
Now,
a survey of current developments in American product design, graphic
design, architecture and new media.
Paula Scher, graphic designer, is a partner at Pentagram, an international
multidisciplinary design firm. She was a winner of the Chrysler
Design
Award 2000.
Her work employs typography and identity design at an environmental scale.
William H. Lunderman, Vice President of Campbell Soup Company's Global
Design Center and routinely speaks around the world about branding
and
design.
He was formerly the design director at Revlon.
Joel Katz, information and wayfinding designer, is principal of Joel
Katz
Design Associates.
Joel is one of 13 information architects featured in the book,
"Understanding USA,"
and presented his work for that project at TED-X conference in
Monterey
in February 2000.
Stella Gassaway, communication architect and Creative Principal at
Stellarvisions. Stella
spends half her time getting individuals to embrace technology and
the
other
half persuading technocrats to value design. Stella is author of
"Killer
Web Design;
NetObjects Fusion."
Dr. Claire Gallagher, architect and educator. In advancing the
integration of
visual literacy in the classroom -- from preschool to graduate
school--Claire has created innovative educational programming in
universities, museums and city schools around the world.
Derek Pitts, chief astronomer with the Franklin Institute. Derek
collects
space rocks weighing a ton or more. He promises to bring one or two
for
show-and-tell.
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The symposium is being sponsored by AIGA Philadelphia and COLLAB, which are
organizations dedicated to advancing the understanding of design and
increasing meaningful collaboration across different design disciplines.
Architects who attend the symposium will receive Continuing Education credits.
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