Massive Change: The Future of Global Design
Vancouver Art Gallery
www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
Save the Date!
In conjunction with the exhibition Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents:
ALVIN TOFFLER 7pm, Friday, October 15, 2004
Pavilion Ballroom, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, 1088 Burrard Street
Eminent author and advisor to corporations and heads of state, Alvin Toffler is a major influence on our times. His books include War and Anti-War and Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (both with Heidi Toffler) as well as the classics Future Shock and The Third Wave
MASSIVE CHANGE: VISIONARIES 10am – 5:30pm, Saturday, October 16, 2004
Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street
Five conversations exploring radical experiments in sustainable energy, technology, revolutionary materials, urban development, information systems, and living organisms will be hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist CHARLIE ROSE (host of “TV’s most addictive talk show” -USA Today) and world-renowned designer BRUCE MAU, mastermind of the exhibition, Massive Change. Come explore the power and promise of design for the future.
Guest speakers include:
Dean Kamen, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur
Janine Benyus, leading thinker in innovative nature-based technology
Bill Buxton, techno-humanist
Hazel Henderson, futurist and sustainable development visionary
James Korris, military analyst / Hollywood hybridist
Gwynne Dyer, journalist on war and international affairs
Esther Dyson, cyber-ethicist
Jaime Lerner, architect and revolutionary urban planner
John Todd, designer of Eco Machines
Andrew Zolli, forecaster & design strategist
MASSIVE CHANGE is a project by Bruce Mau design and the Institute without Boundaries.
Commissioned and organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Book now!
Seating by general admission
Registration call: 604-662-4747
or visit www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
