September LASER Event

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Tanu Sankalia (USF) on "Urban Fabric of Past, Present, and Future"

"Slots" are interstitial spaces located between Victorian-era buildings in San Francisco. Slots can be interpreted as architectural devices that can connect past, present and future urban forms.

7:10-7:45pm: Deborah Aschheim on "Memory"

Creating installations using video, light and sound to map, investigate, recreate and try to give form to invisible networks of memory.

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Anne Fougeron (Architect) on "City of the Future"

As of 2008 over 80% of the land of the world that is suitable for raising crops is in use. Where will we find the farm land we need? By 2040, 80% of the world's population will reside in urban centers, pushing urban edges further out into neighboring agricultural land. How will we feed ourselves?"

8:15pm-8:45pm: Jeff Hull (Nonchalance) on "Situational Design; Interactions at the Conflux of Narrative, Consciousness and Genuine Space"

The trans-media narrative adventure called "The Jejune Institute" leads participants on a journey of urban exploration and discovery through San Francisco's hidden future and past.

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com