Doug and his company are producing a design conference at Avery Fisher Hall on Sept. 9th and 10th. (right across the plaza from my “office”!)
The conference is called Semi-Permanent, and was started a few years ago in Australia by a company called Desing is Kinky.
There will be 12 speakers from all different disciplines including Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, architects. (This poster is of one of their creations)
This is Doug, quoted about the idea behind the conference…
“Doug Jaeger told PSFK that he thinks of Semi-Permanent in terms of the survival of the fittest. ‘Design mediums are converging,’ he says. ‘And this is creating a “super-species” of artists who have the ability to pull from a knowledge base well beyond their specific disciplines, making them stronger designers. We’ve plucked the rising super-species from the design world - And they will teach the rest of us how to survive.’”
Can you tell I’m a proud girlfriend? He’s speaking at the Apple Store about it all on Sept. 5th.
You can get tickets to the conference at the Lincoln Center box office.