Design
Engaged
October 3-5, 2008, Montreal.
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Looking for a hotel in Montreal? We’ve learned that the Holiday Inn Montreal Midtown (a five-minute walk from our venue) still has rooms available for $129/night with our group discount.
Call the hotel directly at 1(800)387-3042 (or +1(514)842-6111). Ask for Reservations and mention “Design Engaged” to get the special rate. They’re only offering us this rate until September 10.
We’re officially sold out! We hope you’re as excited as we are by our final group.
Remember, presentation topics are due by September 7. We’re limiting how many talks we do this year, so we won’t be able to fit you in unless we hear from you by the 7th. If this is your first DE and you aren’t giving a talk, you may find yourself involved in other ways. ;-)
We’ll update our Schedule with speakers and topics shortly after September 7.
We’re just barely over a month away from Design Engaged, and we’re getting very close to our final list of participants.
Stay tuned for all the logistical details you’ll need, but please take a quick look at our current schedule (this is an embedded Google Calendar, if you can’t see it, visit the Design Engaged website.)
Here are some important details:
Just sent out this email to everyone that’s registered so far.
One of the best things about DE is that it’s small enough that everyone participates. In the past, we’ve asked everyone to give a short presentation. This year, we’re going to relax that rule just a bit to make little more time for conversations. Here’s the deal: we’re asking all our first-time participants to plan to definitely give talks. Everyone else, if you’d like to give a 20-minute talk during Day 1 or 2, let us know and we’ll make it work.
Talks can cover anything you like. We encourage you to use this as a chance to show prototypes or rough drafts, or work in progress. If you’re looking for ideas, use this as an opportunity for reflecting on your practice: what do you know in 2008 that you didn’t know five years ago? How are you using design practices in other roles, like managing employees or running a business?
Presentation topics are due by September 7 using the Contact link above. Thanks!
We’ve been investigating lodging options for DE 2008 and have created a map of the nearby hotels.
Please check it out!
We are pleased to announce preferred rates at the following 3 hotels:
If you’re looking for more (or cheaper) options, Tablet has a great list of recommendations.
Here’s our final list of participants. We’re excited to see how many new faces will be at DE this year!
We’ll be in touch with everyone soon about the presentation schedule and other information.
We’re excited to invite you Design Engaged 2008!
A lot’s happened since 2004, when we held the first Design Engaged. Since then, friends of DE have written books, had work in MOMA, founded companies, earned PhDs, not to mention gotten married, and had babies. DE2008 will be a chance to take stock and consider our values, practices, and goals, and how we now view some of the problems and challenges ahead of us. As in years past, DE2008 will be small, invitation-only, and a lot of fun.
The important details:
WHERE: Coeur des Sciences, Montreal, Canada
WHEN: October 3-5, 2008 (Friday-Sunday)
HOW MUCH: $400 (US) per person. This covers registration, lunch each day, and a group dinner Saturday night. We’ll have some funds available to help cover costs for students—please let us know if we can help bring you to Montreal!
We’ll send details about hotels and presentation programming closer to the event, and we’ll be posting the latest news and logistics info on this site. Subscribe to the feed for updates.
We look forward to seeing you!