14APRIL2005
Jim Adams, Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering (design); Management Science and Engineering; Science, Technology and Society, Stanford University
 

NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC, "LOFTEES" only

Title: "breaking rules and the design group - a conversation"

Jim Adams joined the Stanford faculty in 1966. The courses he has taught at Stanford range from mechanical and product design through courses having to do with the nature of technology. He is particularly interested in issues having to do with the management of creativity and change in technology-based organizations, with the design process and product design, and with the emotional aspects of technology. Adams has held many administrative posts at Stanford including Director of the Design Divison, Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and the program in Science, Technology, and Society, Chairman of the Faculty Advisory Board, Associate Dean for Special Projects and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Engineering. He has received the Geggenheimer award for innovation, both the Dinkelspiel and Lyman Awards, Stanford's highest for service to undergraduates and alumni respectively, and many teaching awards. He is the author of Conceptual Blockbusting, a popular book on creative thinking.
21APRIL2005
Paul Saffo, Director and Roy Amara Fellow, Institute for the Future
Clark Center Auditorium

title: The case of the blind venetians; reflections on innovation and what makes Silicon Valley tick

Conventional wisdom has it that Silicon valley is built on the success of earlier industries. Not true; Silicon Valley is built on failure and the secret to the valley's longevity is its attitude towards failure. Hidden in this pattern are insights into why people engage in the admittedly irrational process of innovation. So throw out all the conventional indicia of success, from "good" management to the "right" idea. things are much stranger than they seem, particularly before the outcomes are clear.

Paul is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society . Paul is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board,
and serves on a variety of other boards and advisory panels, including the Stanford Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Society, and the Long Now Foundation (www.longnow.org), as well as the boards of several public and pre-public companies located the United States and abroad. He is also a Distinguished Advisor to the Government of Singapore, a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, which in the late 1990s named Paul one of its “100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow.” Paul’s essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Business2.0, Fortune, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the Washington Post and Wired. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. IFTF is a 30-year old
foundation that provides strategic planning and forecasting services to major corporations and government agencies.
28APRIL2005
 Amelia Rudolph, Founder/Artistic Director, Project Bandaloop
Bloch Lecture Hall

Amelia is a choreographer, dancer and environmental steward. She founded Project Bandaloop in 1991, bringing together dance, climbing and off-the-ground movement through site-specific work on cliffs, buildings and in theaters. Amelia holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in comparative religion from Swarthmore College and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She is an artist/athlete who has been a student of movement since beginning ballet lessons at six. She began climbing in 1989 in California's Sierra Nevada range.

Living in India for five years , especially the years she spent in the central Himalaya, shaped her as a person and as an artist. Her work has explored site-specific dance on buildings and cliffs in North America, Portugal, Brazil, Canada, Africa, Argentina, Lithuania and Austria.
05MAY2005
 Ned Kahn, Ned Kahn Studio
Bloch Lecture Hall
Ned Kahn, an artist who has a background in environmental science, explores natural phenomena through his art. His works typically incorporate fluid dynamics, optics, acoustics, and other features of physics. During the 1980s, he was an apprentice to physicist Frank Oppenheimer at San Francisco's Exploratorium, which Oppenheimer founded. Kahn's works include Tornado, a simulation of the chaotic phenomenon, and Gaussian Melody, whose pin array, related to the Gaussian distribution, produces a random tune. "Converting abstract principles into tangible representations, Kahn's work is accessible to a vast and diverse audience, attracting and holding the attention of children, adults, artists, and physicists alike.

Working out of Ned Kahn Studios in Sebastopol, California, he has designed exhibits for museums in the US, Canada, and Japan and has completed numerous public art commissions. Kahn's exhibits strike an emotional chord, reminding the viewer of nature's capacity to inspire apprehension, serenity, wonder, and awe.
12MAY2005
 Alex Lee, President OXO International
Building 530, Room 127
Born in Hong Kong, Alex Lee moved to New York City in 1980 to attend Parsons School of Design where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors in Product Design. He then joined the firm of Michael Graves, Architect and spent eight years designing a broad array of products for companies ranging from Alessi to Steelcase. After returning to school and earning his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University in 1994, Alex joined OXO International, a New York City based Housewares manufacturer. In 1996 he was promoted to Managing Director and, shortly thereafter, to his current position as President of OXO. He has won numerous design and business awards including the I.D. Award given by the Magazine of International Design, and was named one of the Forty Rising Stars Under Forty in 2000 by Crain's New York Business Magazine. Under his management, OXO International has also received many awards and distinctions. Among them are eleven IDEA Awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America, including the Design of the Decade award for the 1990's, and being named one of the Fifty Greatest Design Hits of the 20th Century by The New York Times Magazine. The use of Universal Design as a business strategy has made OXO and Alex the subject of numerous articles in newspapers, magazines and trade journals from The Washington Post to Elle Décor in Japan.
19MAY2005
 Natalie Jeremijenko, Director of Experimental Product Design Initiative Yale University
Bloch Lecture Hall
Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design engineer and technoartist. Recently she was named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, her work was featured in the Tate Gallery Cream 2, and a large project was commissioned for the opening of the museum MASSMoCA (www.massmoca.org ). Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological work that have been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the LUX Gallery, London (1999), the Whitney Biennial ‘97, Documenta ‘97, Ars Electronic prix ‘96, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a 1999 Rockefeller fellow. She did graduate engineering studies at Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering, and at the University of Melbourne in the History and Philosophy of Science Department and her Ph.D. is in the Dept of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. As the director of the Engineering Design Studio at Yale University she is developing and implementing new courses in technological innovation. She is also affiliated with the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Dept., NYU, where she did postdoctoral studies. Other research positions include several years at Xerox PARC in the computer science lab, and the Advanced Computer Graphics Lab, RMIT. She has also been on faculty in digital media and computer art at the School Of Visual Art, New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. She is known to work for the Bureau of Inverse Technology.
13OCT2005
 Dr. Bill Cockayne and Dr. John Feland
NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC, "LOFTEES" only
Dr. Cockayne is a technology entrepreneur and scientist with a passion for merging research and practice. He has 15 years of industry leadership with companies such as Apple Computer, DaimlerBenz, Eastman Kodak, and Scout Electromedia (a company which he co-founded in 1999). In addition to this real-world experience, Bill has extensive teaching and research experience at leading universities, both in the U.S. and abroad, is the inventor of multiple patents, and has written a range of publications, including
the book Mobile Agents. He is currently the Associate Director of the Stanford Humanities Lab, the CEO and co-founder of Change Research, Inc., member of the Stanford Foresight Group, and an
affiliate at the Institute for the Future. Bill has a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a masters of science in Computer Science.
Dr. John Feland is the User Research and Concept Prototyping Manager for Synaptics Corporate. John leads a rapid response team that generates concepts and prototypes in support of the development of next generation user interface devices. While at Synaptics, he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University where he developed novel innovation metrics that connect design efforts to corporate performance. Prior to joining Synaptics, he was a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Symyx Technologies where he transitioned innovative MEMS sensor technology into production. John served five years as an officer in the United States Air Force where he architected and managed the development of a multimillion dollar software environment to analyze infrared missile warning data while, provided advanced intelligence support to operations in Kosovo, and crafted award winning engineering design curriculum at the United States Air Force Academy. Before serving in the Air Force, John was a designer at IDEO where he designed advanced office appliances for Steelcase, bioreactors to grow artificial skin for burn victims and urinalysis equipment among other products. He received his S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
 
20OCT2005
 Arthur Ganson, http://www.arthurganson.com/
Bloch Lecture Hall
Arthur Ganson has been making kinetic sculpture for 27 years, having received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. He has exhibited his machines in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. As former artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he maintains an ongoing exhibition of sculpture at the MIT Museum in Cambridge.

His work has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine (Jan 1996) and on various programs produced by WGBH television in Boston. Most recently he appeared as a cartoon bear on the animated children's series "Arthur" and a profile will be included in the upcoming new NOVA series "Inside Science". He is the inventor of the award-winning children's toy Toobers and Zots and a partner in the toy company HandsOnToys. He lives and works near Boston, Massachusetts.
27OCT2005
 Serge de Geldere, CEO Futureproof/ed
Bloch Lecture Hall

Serge de Gheldere (37) is a design engineer and ceo of Futureproof/ed, a design studio driven by one simple, central thought: how can better design reduce the environmental impact of products, services and systems. Current Futureproof/ed projects include information, interior, product and green building design. Serge de Gheldere trained as an electro-mechanical engineer in Groep T, Leuven (B) with a focus on materials technology and product design, and as a master in polymer and composites engineering at the KU Leuven (B). Serge had the chance to do his masters' thesis on light, efficient thermoplastic composite structures in Professor Beukers' lab of advanced structures and materials at the faculty of Aeronautical Engineering of TU Delft (NL). Serge then worked as a product development engineer for Baxter R&D Europe for 7 years. There he worked in a global team designing and developing the industry's first system to eliminate blood-borne pathogens in platelets. He also spent 15 months on a project assignment in Chicago and received several awards including a Baxter outstanding technical achievement award and two patents.

Since co-founding Futureproof/ed in 2000, Serge has acted as curator of an exhibition on eco-design for high school kids, and also been designer in residence at Natalie Jeremijenko's xDesign experimental design lab at Yale University. In real life, Serge lives just outside of Brussels, in an eco-renovated 1930s house with his fantastic wife Marie Knops and their three wonderful kids Oscar, Felix and Vera. He's also a passionate snowboarder and windsurfer. Currently Serge is really puzzled by the abundance of sustainable solutions on the one hand, and the seemingly slow adoption rate of eco-design on the other.

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