Hasta La Ideas

You might consider it to be a little early to be telling you about events in November, but given the line up, we’re pretty sure the tickets are going to go quick. The Chicago Tribune‘s resident architecture critic, Blair Kamin, spread the news that the Chicago Architecture Foundation has announced that they will be holding a panel discussion, A Conversation with the Critics: Imagining the Future of the City, on November 5th at the Murphy Auditorium downtown. But we’ve teased you with all this unnessary reading thus far. Here are the goods:

Participants include: Jonathan Glancey (The Guardian), Paul Goldberger (The New Yorker), Sarah Williams Goldhagen (The New Republic), and Blair Kamin (Chicago Tribune). The panel will be moderated by Edward Lifson, cultural critic on Public Radio and on the blog Hello Beautiful!

Maybe it’s just because this writer lives here in Chicago and maybe stuff like this happens all the time in New York or London or some other big cultural hub, but we read a lot (we mean, a lot a lot) of design news and get seventy press releases an hour and we can’t remember ever hearing of a get together like this. Or maybe we’re just such architecture criticism nerds and this is what gets us giddy (read: this is exactly what it is). So we’ll be there, in the front row. Assuming you don’t snatch up our tickets first. Wait…ignore this whole post.

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It’s the 400 year anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in New York. Given the strength of Dutch design, it’s no surprise that this is being celebrated by designers in NYC, first by Jan Habraken and Alissa Melka-Teichrow’s exhibition 400 Years Later (covered by our video crew at ICFF in May) and now with Pioneers of Change, a Dutch design festival that will take over Governer’s Island for two weekends this September.

Initiated by NY400 and curated by Renny Ramakers of Droog, the festival invites big Dutch talent to produce exhibitions, projects, and performances at the 11 officer’s houses on the island. This includes 2012 Architecten, Atelier NL, Maarten Baas, Franck Bragigand, Droog with Marije Vogelzang, Herman Verkerk, Rianne Makkink and Hansje van Halem, Experimental Jetset, Pascale Gatzen, Christien Meindertsma, MVRDV and The Why Factory with Work Architecture Company, Painted, Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen, Parsons The New School for Design, Platform 21, Marcel Schmalgemeijer, NL Architects and Michael Schoner, Richard Hutten, Atelier van Lieschout, and Chris Kabel.

In addition to work from all of the above, there will be a Dutch pop-up shop (all merchandise under $100) and a series of discussions between designers from the Netherlands and New York concerning contemporary notions of luxury (for a start).

Don’t miss this! Get full program and attendance details here.

Pioneers of Change
Governor’s Island, NYC
September 11-13 & September 18-20

LAND! Image by the Experimental Jet Set for Pioneers of Change, courtesy of Droog

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For all you Bay Area readers who’ve been waiting so patiently, we’re pleased to announce that the fourth installment of Coroflot’s Creative Employment Confab has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st, at the Autodesk Gallery at One Market Street in San Francisco.

The series, which has been building in size through its dates in Austin (for SxSW), New York (during Design Week), and Portland, OR, is expected to hit some unprecedented attendance numbers in SF, if reader feedback and requests are any indication.

The format will be similar to previous events, with an afternoon panel discussion covering topics creative hiring, followed by a reception which mixes design directors, recruiters, and creative professionals in an environment tailor made to encourage network-building and knowledge-sharing. New for the SF date will be an optional morning session, offering a pair of concurrent workshops, one directed at job-seekers, and the other at talent-seekers.

Confirmed panelists are:

– John Foster, Head of Talent and Organization at IDEO
– Kate Gilman, Recruiter at 24 Seven, Inc.
– Steve Johnson, Director of User Experience Design & Web Development at LinkedIn

Additional panelists will be announced as they are confirmed. As before, the panel will be moderated by Coroflot Editorial Director Carl Alviani, and followed by Q&A with the audience.

The cost is $60 for the afternoon panel and reception, or $85 with the optional morning session. Details and registration are at the Confab page on Coroflot, along with analysis, photos and video from previous Confabs (more commentary and video of the entire Portland panel can be found on the Creative Seeds blog).

Bay Area designers and recruiters, hope to see you there!

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Up above is a shot of Roo Trimble, architecture metalworker and RISD ID graduate, and his self-welded aluminum car frame. Trimble is building the car to compete in the One Gallon Challenge, a competition to design, build and drive a vehicle from Greenfield, Massachusetts to Boston’s City Hall on a single gallon of gas.

Event organizer Jory Squibb…said the message he hopes the One Gallon Challenge sends is that 100-mile-per-gallon cars are not impossible to build. The technology is there, he said; all that’s needed “are gutsy entrepreneurs and gutsy buyers.”

The One Gallon Challenge begins this Thursday as part of Boston GreenFest, a community event focusing on ways to reduce our environmental impact.

Click here to see Trimble’s extensive documentation of his car, the Roopod, being built.

via boston dot com

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