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ASID Keynote Presentations
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Paola Antonelli [KE2] Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 8:00 am
Location: Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza - Sauganash Ballroom
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THE FUTURE OF DESIGN
Since she stepped back from practicing architecture in order to focus on writing about design, teaching and curating exhibitions, Italian-native Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world. Working at The Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, Antonelli is now a senior curator in the Architecture and Design department and has worked on shows such as "Humble Masterpieces," which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; "Safe," considering issues of protection; "Workspheres," a look at contemporary workplace design; and "Design and the Elastic Mind," a survey of the fertile relationship between design and science. Join Antonelli as she focuses on how designers stand between revolutions and everyday life, on how they have the ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science and society, and to convert them into objects and ideas that people can understand and use. Antonelli will present examples from all over the world that show how the secon oldest profession in the world will evolve in the future.
Joe Gebbia, co-founder, Ecolect Date: Wednesday - June 17, 2009
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Location: Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza - Sauganash Ballroom
Get a job or create your own? The day after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, entrepreneur and designer Joe Gebbia answered this question by plunging into the unknown: foregoing a steady job to start his own company. Since then, Joe has received international press for patenting his internationally distributed product, launching a Web-based sustainable materials library, creating a peer-to-peer travel Web site, and licensing a product he literally found in the garbage. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, BusinessWeek and Fortune. With an unstable hiring climate, Gebbia will share tips and insights about how he, and entrepreneurial designers like him, are creating their own jobs by pursuing their own ideas. Leave the MBA at home, and welcome the Modern Designtrepreneur.
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