Third Paradox Conference To Explore Design Innovations in Sustainable Habitats, Cyberspace and New Forms of Community.Business/News Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2001 "Third-Millennium Habitats" To Be Discussed by 300 Cybernauts Cybernauts were a David Bowie cover band featuring Def Leppard members Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, former Spiders From Mars members Trevor Bolder and Mick "Woody" Woodmansey (the Spiders From Mars were once David Bowie's backing band), and a keyboardist, Dick Decent. , Executives of New- and Old-Economy Businesses, Architects, and Urban Planners at Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti in Arizona September 21-23 New ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. and initiatives about "Third-Millennium Habitats" will be explored by internationally-renowned visionaries and innovative practitioners of the real and the virtual at the third biennial Paradox conference September 21-23. Three hundred advanced thinkers and doers will convene to talk about new forms of community, ecologically-based urban designs, sustainability, and related cyberspace applications at urban visionary Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti 65 miles north of Phoenix. Arcosanti is a self-contained community in the Arizona desert that embodies Paolo Soleri's theory and designs of eco-cities. He calls these eco-cities arcologies, the marriage of architecture and ecology to create urban habitats that conserve resources and blend harmoniously with the environment. Scenarios for a sustainable, transformative evolution for the human species will be the focus of Paradox III. The intention of the experiential conference has been to illuminate and advance the paradoxes implicit in Adj. 1. implicit in - in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" underlying, inherent the increasingly important interplay between the organic and the technological. USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. described the second Paradox conference in 1999 as a place "where cutting-edge thinkers from fields as varied as art, theology and computer science will contemplate the effects cyberspace will have on the world in the years to come." (22 and 27 September 1999. Leslie Miller) Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. recognized the significance of the first conference in 1997: "the rise of new technologies has revived interest in the saving power of enlightened design and connected community....Soleri brought together a group of technovisionaries to discuss the promise and dangers inherent in their new machines and theories." (27 October 1997. Mike Tanner) Conference Speakers Include Egyptologist, Urban Visionary, Director of White House-Sponsored Housing Partnership Among the speakers for the September 2001 conference are: Esperide Ananas on "Reinventing Community" Ms. Ananas is a director of the Federation of Damanhur The Federation Of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a commune and spiritual community situated in the Piedmont region of northern Italy about 30 miles north of the city of Turin. in Italy, one of the world's most highly-developed intentional communities and a model of sustainable living globally. Elizabeth Burdock burdock (bûr`däk), common name of any plant of the genus Arctium of the family Asteraceae (aster family), coarse biennials indigenous to temperate Eurasia and mostly weedy in North America. on "Sustainable Development" She is executive director of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, a White House-sponsored partnership of homebuilders, businesses and the Federal Government. Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) on "The Future of Communal Habitation HABITATION, civil law. It was the right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. 2. It differed from a usufruct in this, that the usufructuary might have applied the house to any purpose, as, a store or manufactory; whereas " Mr. Jerde's visionary ideas, experiential placemaking discipline and innovative mixed-use projects have revitalized cities worldwide, including San Diego and Las Vegas; Fukuoka, Japan; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Today he is working in 18 countries. Mark Lehner, PhD on "Negative Third-Millennium Cities" An Egyptologist, Dr. Lehner is the director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project excavating south of the Great Sphinx sphinx (sfĭngks), mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, in Egypt and professor at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Paul Ray, PhD on "The Values of Cultural Creatives in America" A sociologist and urban planner, Dr. Ray is author of the recently released book, "The Cultural Creatives." (published October 2000) The conference has grown from 80 participants its first year to 200 the second year. The attendance for the third conference has been limited to 300. For additional information about the conference schedule, participants and registration, see www.arcosanti.org/paradox or call 520/632-7135. |
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