SFI8 SCHEDULE

Friday, April 4, 2008
Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St, Gund Hall

6:30pm--Keynote presentation

Keynote presentation
Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo, Japan)

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Gund Hall Lobby and Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St, Gund Hall

8:00-9:00am--Registration & Coffee

9:00am--Welcome & Introductions

            Opening remarks
            Bryan Bell, Founder & Executive Director
            Design Corps (Raleigh, NC)

9:30-11:00am--Panel I: activist . practice

Panelists
David Perkes and Patricia Broussard, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (Biloxi, MS)
Liz Ogbu, Public Architecture (San Francisco, CA)
Carin Smuts, CS Studio Architects (Capetown, South Africa)

Moderator
Laura Miller, Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

11:30-1:00pm--Panel II: political . art 

Panelists
Dan Adams, Landing Studio (Cambridge, MA)
Amy Balkin, Invisible 5 (San Francisco, CA)
John Fetterman, Mayor (Braddock, PA)

Moderator
Lonni Tanner, Loeb Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Director, In Kindness

1:00-2:00pm--Catered Lunch

2:00-3:30pm--Panel III: social . sustainability 

Panelists
Simon Trace, Practical Action (Rugby, United Kingdom)
Jim Diers, Department of Neighborhoods (Seattle, WA)
Jennifer Toy and Chelina Odbert, Kounkuey Design Initiative (Cambridge, MA)

Moderator
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

3:30-4:00pm--Coffee Break

4:00-5:30pm--Panel IV: design . power

Panelists
Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz (San Diego, CA)
Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban Think Tank (Caracas, Venezuela)

Moderator
Rahul Mehrotra, Associate Professor, School of Architecture + Planning, MIT

8:00pm--Reception, Drinks + Snacks
Sheraton Commander Hotel, Click here for map
16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Gund Hall Lobby, 48 Quincy St, Gund Hall

8:00-9:00am--Coffee + Snacks

9:30am--Introduction to workshops

9:50-10:50am--Session I workshops
11:00-12:00pm--Session II workshops
or
9:50-12:00pm--Local Tour

Workshop coordinators and tours include:

CITYBuild  Design99  Carin Smuts  Groundwork Somerville  Archventures  YouthBuild Boston  RISD InsideOut Studio  BAC/Tufts Solar Decathlon Team  Brandy Brooks and Boston's Community Design Resource Center  GSD Loeb Fellowship  Rose Fellowship  DesignCorps

All listed speakers confirmed as of February 2008. 

Schedule subject to change.