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Jetpacks and Dreams
Portland Center Stage has put together another great panel around their Buckminster Fuller show and it’s all for FREE and goes down tomorrow night. Check out the details below:
Designs on Portland: designing dreams \ engineering desire
A Conversation with ZIBA Design’s Sohrab Vossoughi & Roboticist Daniel H. Wilson
What role do design and technology play in how we imagine “the future?” How do designers strike a balance between the manufacturing of desire and the “more with less” impulse to contribute to the global good?
Join Portland Architecture’s Brian Libby and Tim DuRoche of Portland Center Stage for a conversation with Sohrab Vossoughi, founder and president of ZIBA Design and Daniel H. Wilson, robotics engineer and author of Where’s My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Scienece Fiction Future That Never Arrived.
Presented in conjunction with Portland Center Stage’s R. Buckminster Fuller show, Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Manuf®actured, and Oregon Historical Society’s Raymond Loewy.
Wedenesday, November 19, 6:30 – 8:30pm FREE
at DWR Portland Studio, 1200 NW Everett
