John Hockenberry to Moderate Second Annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibiti

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:

John Hockenberry - Conference Moderator
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

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

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.

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 http://dwellondesign.com.

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