Friday, April 4, 2008
Schedule subject to change
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM |
| Morning Registration |
| Welcome |
| 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM |
| Tim Marshall |
Welcome from the Dean of
Parsons The New School for Design |
| Paola Antonelli |
Design and the Elastic Mind |
| Adam Bly |
Future of Science |
| Jamer Hunt |
The Power of Experiments |
| morning 1: Tinkering with Space |
| 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM |
Introduction by Paola Antonelli and Adam Bly |
| Ben Aranda / Chris Lasch |
Growing Space |
| Chandler Burr |
The Space of Scent |
| Chuck Hoberman |
Responsive Architecture |
| Paul Steinhardt |
A Cyclic Universe |
| Matthew Ritchie |
The Morning Line |
| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM |
| Coffee Break |
| morning 2: Experiments in Organic Design |
| 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM |
Introduction by Paola Antonelli and Adam Bly |
| Neri Oxman |
Making Difference |
| Erik Demaine |
Computational Origami |
| Bradley Samuels |
Nature and Artifice |
| Skylar Tibbits / Marc Fornes |
Partly Surface |
| Greg Lynn |
New City |
| 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Lunch – Open |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Afternoon Registration |
| afternoon 1: Modeling Reality |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM |
Introduction by Paola Antonelli and Adam Bly |
| Janna Levin |
The Shape of Space |
| Kevin Slavin |
What is Reality? |
| Henry Markram |
Designing the Human Mind |
| Lisa Strausfeld |
The Space of Information |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM |
| Coffee Break |
| afternoon 2: Design in the Near Future |
| 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM |
Introduction by Paola Antonelli and Adam Bly |
| Drew Endy |
Synthetic Biology |
| Christophe Laudamiel |
Design for the Invisible |
| Hugh Herr |
Humanoid Robotics |
| Laurene Boym |
It's a Small World |
| Jessica Banks / Ayah Bdeir |
Open Source for Snobs |
| Natalie Jeremijenko |
Environment Design |
| Fiona Raby |
Design for Debate |
| Closing |
| 5:45 PM – 6:00 PM |
| Paola Antonelli |
| Adam Bly |
| Jamer Hunt |
| Reception hosted by Parsons The New School for Design |
| 6:00 PM |
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. |