Architecture + Design Education Network conference
04/26/08
Our friends who help run A+DEN invite design educators to their June 20-21 conference in Chicago.
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Join us in Chicago to network, socialize and share our experience as design educators. Meet colleagues from across the country and around the world who share your passion for K-12 design education. Get inspired by work that others are doing. Learn from the experiences of your peers. Gather ideas for new programs.
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http://www.adenweb.org/conference2008
Permitting Pushcarts: a live talk show about street vending and public space
04/09/08
CUP is pleased to present an evening on street vending and public space. Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will be interviewing Sean Basinski, founder and director of the Street Vendor project. They will discuss the legal frameworks governing street vending, the role of commerce in creating place, and business models of mobile cuisine.
Wednesday, April 9, 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street (between Prince and Houston)
New York, NY
R/W to Prince Street, B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker Street
Community Design
03/30/08
On Sunday, March 30, in conjunction with the exhibition Community Design: Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1964, CUP’s Damon Rich will have a public conversation with geographer, architect, and planner Michael Rios. For more information, visit www.arttransponder.net.
Report From the Ghost City
03/24/08
Our friends at The Disembodied Theater Corporation present an evening of dispatches, news, songs, and fragments from the Ghost City: remains of abandoned towns, railways, and graveyards that stand as remnants of a lost society. Expect a High Line powerpoint, abandoned mental hospitals through photo and film, and much more.
Monday, March 24, 7:30 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, NY.
Apple Store lecture
03/19/08
CUP’s Executive Director, Rosten Woo, will be speaking at the Soho Apple store as part of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) series, “Design Remixed.” He’ll be speaking about (re)mixing design, politics, and education at CUP. http://www.aigany.org/events/details/7A11/
Wednesday 19 March 2008 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Apple Store, Soho
103 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012