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David Suzuki, keynote speaker |
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David Suzuki, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He is renowned for his radio and television programs that explain the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling, easily understood way.
Dr. Suzuki is a geneticist. He graduated from Amherst College (Massachusetts) in 1958 with an Honors BA in Biology, followed by a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Chicago. He held a research associateship in the Biology Division of Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Lab (1961 – 1962), was an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta (1962 – 1963), and since then has been a faculty member of the University of British Columbia. He is now Professor Emeritus of The University of British Columbia, Sustainable Development Research Institute.
In 1972, he was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the outstanding research scientist in Canada under the age of 35. He has won numerous academic awards and holds 18 honorary degrees in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. A member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada, Dr. Suzuki has written 43 books, including 17 for children. His 1976 textbook An Introduction to Genetic Analysis (with A.J.F. Griffiths), remains the most widely used genetics text book in the U.S. and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, Arabic, French and German.
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Dr. Suzuki has received consistently high acclaim for his thirty years of award-winning work in broadcasting. In 1974, he developed and hosted the long running popular science program Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio. He has since presented two influential documentary CBC radio series on the environment, It’s a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. His television career began with CBC in 1971 when he wrote and hosted Suzuki on Science. He then created and hosted a number of television specials, and in 1979 became the host of the award-winning The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. He has won four Gemini Awards as best host of a Canadian television series for The Nature of Things, which he has been with for 26 of the 46 seasons they have been on air. His eight part television series, A Planet for the Taking, won an award from the United Nations. His eight part PBS series, The Secret of Life, was praised internationally, as was his five part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. On June 10, 2002 he received the John Drainie Award for broadcasting excellence.
Dr. Suzuki is also recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He is the recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Program Medal and the Global 500. He is a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. |
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Gijs Bakker |
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Trained as a jewellery- and industrial designer in Amsterdam and Stockholm, Bakker designs jewellery, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. His design work has won numerous international awards in a wide range of fields including furniture, jewelry, applied arts and architecture, and is represented in museum and private collections worldwide.
Bakker has held positions as a lecturer at the Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem and the Delft University of Technology, and is currently a professor at The Design Academy in Eindhoven. He lectures, serves on juries, conducts workshops and exhibits all over the world. Bakker is also design advisor to several organizations, including Cor Unum and the American Craft Museum.
Bakker cofounded the Dutch design collective, Droog Design, in 1993, and the concept-driven Chi ha paura...? foundation in 1996. |
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http://www.gijsbakker.com/ |
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http://www.droogdesign.nl/ |
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Jonathan Barnbrook |
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Since 1990, London-based Barnbrook Design has been producing innovative work that combines a mixture of typographic structure, politics and irony. The studio, which chooses to remain small, and works on projects without worrying about “bringing in the money,” has created such fonts as Mason and Exocet for Emigre, plus others released through Barnbrook’s own font foundry, Virus. Barnbrook has collaborated with contemporary artists, including the much-acclaimed Damien Hirst on the monograph
I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere with everyone, one to one always, forever now. Currently the studio is preoccupied with work that questions the critical role of graphic design in society, including work with Adbusters and specially commissioned pieces of graphic authorship. |
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http://www.barnbrook.net/ |
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http://www.virusfonts.com/ |
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Nicholas Blechman |
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Nicholas Blechman is principle of Knickerbocker Design, an award winning graphic design and illustration studio in New York. His clients have included the New York Times, Random House, The Nation, Parsons, Saturday Night, Audubon Society, Greenpeace, Harper Collins, Little Brown & Co., Penguin Books, Simon and Schuster and the United Nations. Blechman's illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including Newsweek, the New York Times magazine, Oprah, GQ and Dwell.
He is the founder and editor of the award-winning magazine NOZONE - a forum for social critique through art - which explores themes such as "The Idea of Nature"
, "Special Destruction Dispatch", "Utopia/Dystopia", "Poverty", "Work" and "Empire".
Blechman also copublishes a series of limited edition illustration books and is the author of “Fresh Dialogue One: New Voices in Graphic Design” and "100% EVIL". Former art director for the New York Times Op-Ed page, Blechman currently teaches design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. |
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http://www.knickerbockerdesign.com/ |
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Natalie Chanin |
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Natalie “Alabama” Chanin creates projects that reflect a wide range of disciplines, from sustainable clothing and home furnishings to a limited edition jewelry line. Additionally, she has been involved in visual documentations such as the Kitchen Project, a collection of recipes, stories and photographs from local kitchen aficionados. Natalie is currently developing an archive of oral histories entitled, “The History of Textiles,” which is a collection of oral histories from textile workers including farmers and their wives, displaced factory workers and home sewers. Her documentary film, “Stitch,” is like a road map through rural America as told through the eyes of those who made quilts, as well as those who used them.
Natalie Chanin is best known for her work as co-founder and designer of Project Alabama, which became known for elaborately embellished and completely hand-sewn garments, made from recycled materials by local artisans and sold in stores around the world.
Today, Natalie runs Alabama Chanin, a company which continues to enlist the craftsmanship of local artisans and strives to bring a contemporary context to age-old techniques. Natalie sees herself as a perpetuator of what she calls the “Living Arts”. These Living Arts consist of craft and traditions that have been passed down through generations of women and men – connecting us to our roots, our past, our community, and consequently to our present. Natalie works towards preserving the Living Arts as an integral part of the social fabric of communities. She feels that such traditions are the backbone of what makes a community, a home. By preserving these integral crafts and traditions we work towards ensuring sustainability of product and eventually providing the basis for truly sustainable contemporary communities.
Natalie has a Degree in Environmental Design from North Carolina State University and works simultaneously as designer, manufacturer, stylist, filmmaker, mother, artisan, cook and collector of stories from her home in Florence, Alabama. |
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http://www.alabamachanin.com/ |
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Kirsten Childs |
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After working with a number of distinguished architectural firms including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Richard Meier Associates, Kirsten Childs, ASID, joined Croxton Collaborative Architects as director of interior design in 1985 where she played a key role in developing the company's sustainable agenda. Childs has received national recognition from several professional organizations including ASID, which she represented at the „Greening of the White House.‰ She continues to represent ASID at sustainable symposia across the country and has published numerous articles in professional publications. In 1989, she directed a team of professionals in the design of the NRDC, which was acknowledged as the first recipient of Interiors magazine's Award for Socially Conscious Design in 1990, and subsequently received the AIA National Award for Environmentally Sensitive Design in 1991. Childs has taken an active role in the development of LEED® and chaired the USGBC's LEED Environmental Quality Technical Advisory Group for four years, stepping down in 2005. During that period, she served on the LEED Steering Committee, as well as the ASID's Sustainable Design Council, and continues to participate with the LEED Corporate Interiors Core Committee. |
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http://www.croxtonarc.com/home.cfm |
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Rebecca Earley |
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Rebecca Earley is a London based textile designer, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London. She currently produces hand and digitally printed textiles for her own label, undertakes public art projects and commissions, and is an educator, facilitator and curator. Earley graduated from Central St Martin’s in 1994 and set up her label ‘B.Earley’ the following year. Earley became a Senior Research Fellow at Chelsea in 2002 and has continued to investigate new techniques and theoretical approaches to textile design. Recent projects include the curation of Well Fashioned, an exhibition dedicated to eco fashion, at the Crafts Council Gallery in March 2006. Included in the exhibition is the Earley’s recent design work, the Top 100 Project, which explores the benefits of using recycled synthetics. The blouse collections have been exhibited in France, China and London, and were seen on the catwalk in Paris in November 2004. Earley was nominated by the public for the Great Briton 2006 award in the category of the creative industries. |
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http://www.beckyearley.com/ |
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http://www.tedresearch.net/ |
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Dawn Hancock |
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Good Design For Good Reason
Dawn Hancock has always believed the most effective communication comes from culturally relevant design. She started Firebelly to prove honesty and authenticity could answer mainstream businesses’ needs. With a passion for straight lines, social justice and old copy machines, she's been producing powerful, thought-provoking work ever since. Reflecting her natural obsession for arranging unique pieces to create a more beautiful whole, Hancock's studio is an assemblage of amazingly talented people who understand the importance of collaboration. Humanity finds its way into all the work; everyone at Firebelly talks with their hands, thinks with their hearts and goes with their guts. Naturally, Hancock’s leadership and creative direction distills all of Firebelly's diverse styles into a potent shot of design goodness. Serving an ever-broadening list of industries, the studio has grown in both size and reputation and its portfolio and client list prove feel-good, do-good work can yield beautiful, bountiful results. Furthering her commitment to socially conscious causes, in 2003 Hancock created the annual Firebelly Design & Marketing Grant which provides an entire year of strategy, design and development to one nonprofit, completely free of charge.
Outside of Firebelly, Hancock is a savior of stray pups, mentor to young designers and vegetarian chef to her lucky dinner guests (none of whom will ever see her secret recipes). |
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http://firebellydesign.com/about.php?id=2 |
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Yasmeen Lari |
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Architect, Architectural Historian, Conservationist
Executive Director, Heritage Foundation Pakistan
Chairperson, KaravanPakistan Initiatives
Yasmeen Lari graduated from the Oxford School of Architecture and was elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1969. She is the first woman architect of Pakistan. As principal of Lari Associates, she designed several state-of-the-art buildings, including the ABN AMRO Bank Head Office, Pakistan State Oil Head Office and Finance and Trade Centre (FTC) in Karachi, as well as upgrading katchi abadis and constructing mud buildings in Bahawalpur. She retired from architectural practice in 2000. As Executive Director of the Heritage Foundation Pakistan and UNESCO’s National Advisor ), she led the team that saved the endangered Shish Mahal ceiling in the Shah Burj of the Lahore Fort. Lari has written several books and monographs on the historic architecture of Pakistan and has conducted Karavan Pakistan activities for engaging youth and communities in heritage safeguarding across the country. She has been working on a voluntary basis in the earthquake affected areas in Pakistan since October 2005 and pursuing the dream of “heritage for rehabilitation” as the basis for reconstruction and development in the area. She was the recipient of the UN Recognition Award in 2002 for promotion of culture and peace and was nominated by the government of Pakistan for the award of Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2006. Lari is married to noted historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and has one daughter, two sons and one grandson. |
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http://www.jazbah.org/yasmeen.php |
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Susan Szenasy |
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Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of Metropolis, the award-winning, New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture and design. Since 1986 she has lead the magazine through 20 years of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. Szenasy’s training was on the job—beginning with Interiors magazine she rose quickly from editorial assistant to senior editor until being named chief editor of Residential Interiors. Today she is recognized as a preeminent authority on design. In choosing experts for their new documentary, design: e2, on the economics of environmental consciousness, PBS chose to interview Szenasy extensively as a keystone authority on sustainability. Believing that design and architecture are humanist activities, she is committed to education. As professor of Design Ethics at New York’s Parsons School of Design, she works to instill the values of responsible sustainability on the next generation. Professionals in the field also benefit from Szenasy frequent lecturing at conferences around the world. She is the guiding light behind Metropolis’ own events, such as the Tropical Green Conference on sustainable building in tropical zones, which succeeded in large part due to her tremendous efforts in bringing a vital topic to the fore. Szenasy has authored several books, including The Home and Light, and sits on the boards of the Coalition for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER), Fashion Institute of Technology and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She has been honored with the International Interior Design Association’s
(IIDA) Presidential Commendation and as an American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) distinguished speaker on the topic of ethics in design. As co-founder of Rebuild Downtown Our Town, Susan worked with a coalition of city organizations and individuals to join together expertise on building the 21st century metropolis on the site of the former World Trade Center. |
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http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/ |
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