John Hockenberry To Moderate Second Annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition -- Event Focus: Building Community in the Modern World
The Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition is a highly interactive, idea driven, multi-day experience designed to ignite a creative spark within the ever growing community of consumers, creative professionals and businesses that share a passion for modern design, sustainability and smart growth. This year's theme is Building Community in the Modern World and includes all aspects of the built environment - from urban redevelopment projects to co-housing and single family dwellings; from farmers markets to public art programs - as well as diverse social and economic interactions that define the world in which we live. A hands-on marketplace will demonstrate top products and services inspired by modern design.
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) July 2, 2007 -- Michela O'Connor Abrams, President and Publisher of Dwell, has announced plans for the second annual Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition scheduled to take place at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco the weekend of September 14-16, 2007. Highly acclaimed journalist John Hockenberry will moderate this year's one-and-a-half-day conference which kicks off a three-day weekend dedicated to exploring and celebrating what it means to build community in a modern world.
"We are delighted to have John Hockenberry join us for a weekend that we are designing to be rigorous, celebratory, in-depth, and undoubtedly a bit irreverent," says O'Connor Abrams. "His singular combination of spirit, intellect and genuine curiosity is an ideal catalyst for thoughtful, lively and meaningful conversation."
Conference
Bringing together product designers, innovators in green building practices, entrepreneurs in energy efficiency, artists, photographers, architects, landscape and interior designers, authors, historians, web designers, parents, students, and neighbors, this year's Dwell on Design Conference will unleash the ingenuity and commitment of people who are building community on a number of different fronts, each with an emphasis on strong design, sustainability and smart growth. Confirmed conference participants include:
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- Craig Hartman, FAIA - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Treasure Island Redevelopment
- Reed Kroloff - Dean of Tulane's School of Architecture, and named the next director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
- Alice Waters - Founder, Chez Panisse and The Edible Schoolyard
- Mark Lakeman - Co-founder, City Repair Project - Portland, OR
- Kathryn McCamant - Licensed Architect, Co-author of Co-Housing: A
- Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves
- Gwendolyn Wright - Historian, Columbia University
- Jennifer Roberts - Author, Good Green Kitchens
- Andrea Cochran - Harvard educated landscape designer, Commissioner in Civic Design on the San Francisco Arts Commission
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Exhibition
The Dwell on Design: San Francisco Exhibition will again offer a one-of-a-kind marketplace showcasing a wide variety of modern products and services, making creative use of indoor and outdoor spaces for an informative, entertaining and valuable experience. Confirmed exhibitors and event sponsors include:
| | - Fusion Furniture
- Haworth
- Insta Haus by Zack deVito Architecture
- La Vita e' Bella
- Loewen
- Marmol Radziner
- Modern Bamboo
- Modwalls
- Rocio Romero
- Scavolini
- Sirius Range Hoods
- Stoller Tables
- weeHouse Prefab on-site install by Alchemy Architects
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AIA San Francisco Home Tours
Partnering with the AIA San Francisco Home Tours, Dwell on Design will host ticket sales and distribution (at the Concourse) for the San Francisco Chapter of the AIA San Francisco Living: Home Tours during the Dwell on Design: San Francisco weekend.
About John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry has won four Emmy awards, three Peabody Awards, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. He is a contributing editor for Wired and Metropolis magazines, and was recently named a contributor to Conde Nast's Portfolio. His father was an industrial designer at IBM, and then turned Steelcase into the company we know today. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, I.D., Wired, The Columbia Journalism Review, Details, and The Washington Post. His blog is called "The Blogenberry World."
For more information on the conference and to register, please visit dwellondesign.com.
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