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The third annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition, debuting in Los Angeles, June 5-8, 2008 will constitute the largest design show in the West.
With over 50 speakers, the conference will offer the most diverse subject matter related to modern design ever presented live in Los Angeles.
Exclusively moderated by Dwell editors, the 13 panels will feature a roster of incredibly talented and diverse people ranging from legislators to practitioners to activists will be discussing everything from urban gardening, to a mandated LEED program for Los Angeles, to why there are so few developers who love good design.
The conference follows two parallel tracks but participants are encouraged to partake in all discussions.
The conference opens with conversation specifically devoted to the future of Los Angeles, with panels including LA Grows Up: Dealing With Density and Los Angeles LEEDs the Way?, which explores what a mandated LEED program means for the city.
A highly anticipated panel moderated by Dwell Senior Editor Amber Bravo will explore Immortality Through Product.
A focus will be on the process of bringing products to market and the way in which design skills may be wrapped into a product that reaches a broader audience than a designer might access through design as a service.
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June Dwell on Design Conference Announces Extensive Speaker Line-up
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Ever since our cities became areas of continuous interaction and ever-expanding exchange the term "exotic" - understood as counterpart to the "local", the "native" or even the "authentic" - has become a rather vague term.
Who - in actual fact - is still able to distinguish between the one and the other, between the exotic and the local?
Who would be interested anyway?
Yet, once again, there seems to be an increasing fascination with, and interest in, importing and seeing certain urban elements from other parts of the world in our own cities.
There are, apparently, more Japanese people visiting the fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas than the original in Paris.
What makes this displacement so interesting today?
MONU9 investigates what the term exotic actually means for our cities and how exotic urban elements appear, what they look like, and how they may influence our cities.
In any case, exotic urban features appear more and more as an inexhaustible source for progressive urban design ideas.
When the exotic influenced the appearance of the "Art Nouveau" at the end of the 19th century, it might today have the power to create an "Urban Nouveau".
MONU invites daring concepts, mind-stretching speculations and ground-breaking new strategies about the topic "Exotic Urbanism" for next issue.
Submissions may be essays, photography, art projects or design concepts that trigger the term "exotic" in the urban context.
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The Rabih Hage Gallery will showcase an architectural project as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
The Gallery will exhibit a Pavilion designed by Rabih Hage Design Studio and built by EOS Electro Optical Systems Ltd.
This inspirational architectural project explores the possibility of using additive layer manufacturing (also referred to as e-Manufacturing or rapid manufacturing) technology within the built environment.
The exhibition will examine the potentials of how the industrial process of e-Manufacturing might restructure the practice and making in architecture.
The ability of technologies such as laser-sintering to build models and full-scale architectural projects directly from CAD files will be examined for this ground breaking exhibition.
The project will include the design of a multifunctional exhibition pavilion built using e-Manufacturing.
The pieces to be exhibited will comprise of a section model and one external element of the pavilion at a scale of 1:1.
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Fast Forward: E-Manufacturing in Architecture
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Style, functionality ad technology in a design workshop on yacht interiors.
The course is about transmitting methodological approach and problem solving to a designer that has to conceive a detailed and technical project such as the interior of a yacht, that shall also be elegant and refined, appropriate in the choice of materials and in forms, but at the same time that can't be disconnected from technical and construction know-how of nautical design.
The course is developed through theoretical lessons and labs enriched with visits to specialized boat builders worksites and yachts at sea.
Experts, builders and journalists of the nautical field will interfere during the course offering to enrolled students important professional testimonies.
The course leader and director is Massimo Gregori Grgic, CEO of Yankee Delta Studio that operates in naval architecture for more than 30 years now.
The course promoter is ISAD Istituto Superiore di Architettura e Design of Milan, founded in 1980 and rich of a didactic experience in yacht design education always conducted in collaboration with Massimo Gregori Grgic.
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Interior Yacht Design Workshop
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Cross consists of two diagonal dashes. One reaching from the bottom left to the upper right - the other from top left to the bottom right.
Harajuku is famous for its shopping mile where Chanel, Dior and Bvlgari welcome you.
Following this trend are the so-called Harajuku-Kids who, opposite to the richer Omote-Sando clientele, hang out in the side alleys and try to get a hold of the up-to-date fashion to present themselves as victims of the very same.
In this variegated environment, right behind the Gyre-Building of MVRDV at the crossroads to Starbucks, you will find the small building of Hisashi Kanke.
There, he has been operating a Hair & Barber Salon for ten years.
The small structure is paved with flagstones, creating a discreet and congenial atmosphere.
Maybe MVRDV was inspired by exactly this construction in their "backyard" when they decided on their own paneled façade.
Design Bureau Colin Schaelli's goal was to respect the discretion of the architectural style in the creation of the shop's inner life and to set a contrast to the hustle and bustle of the surrounding alleys - since the exterior affects the interior.
Therefore, the client finds himself in a room which is not littered with all the sensory stimuli of Harajuku, allowing him to quietly observe the colorful action outside while having his or her hair cut and styled by cross - with the inside affecting one's perception of the outside while also deflecting some of the outside.
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CROSS: Corporate and Interior Design by Design Bureau Colin Schaelli
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