INTERDESIGN & CONNECTING’07 Open House

On behalf of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers (ACID), we would like to invite you to an Open House on June 11 (6-8 pm) at the Institute without Boundaries.

We will be presenting information about the World House Interdesign and CONNECTING’07.

The World House Interdesign takes place at George Brown College from June 24-30. Interdesign is an international conference being hosted by the Institute without Boundaries in partnership with the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) an international event marking Icsid’s 50th anniversary celebrations. This week long event will bring students, professionals, faculty in the field of design together from around the world to tackle four local design challenges in the Greater Toronto Region: the Toronto Waterfront, Downsview Park, Mt Dennis region and Town of Port Perry.

Interdesign speakers include:

- Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto
- Mr. Bill Moggridge, Congress Chair of Connecting 07 World Design Congress and co-founder of IDEO
- Ms. Leslie Hoffman, Executive Director of the New York based organization Earth Pledge
- Ms. Beatrice Olivastri, CEO of Friends of the Earth Canada
- Mr. Peter Love, Ontario’s first Chief Energy Conservation Officer.

2007 Icsid / CONNECTING’07 World Design Congress – “Connecting to People and to Ideas” will take place in San Francisco from October 17-20. ACID will have a booth at the World Design Congress and a call for entries to participate in the exhibition will be issued soon!

Registration

Learn more about registering for the conference! For more details visit www.worldwhouse.ca/interdesign. To register for the open house, please email alee@georgebrown.ca or call (416) 415-5000 x 2103. The Institute without Boundaries is located at 209 Adelaide Street East (corner of Jarvis).