Tonight, LA Forum is featuring the publishers at a Chinatown event. -- Bob Jacobson
Sunday, December 4, 2005, 5pm on
The Mountain Bar, Chinatown
Please join the Forum together with co-editors Cynthia Davidson and
Denise Bratton in celebrating the holiday season and the Los Angeles
launch of Log 6 at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown, Sunday evening,
December 4, 2005, from 5 on.
Festivities will include free Dim Sum + (not free, but inexpensive
and great) no host bar. Cynthia Davidson will talk briefly about the
birth of Log in the aftermath of Any magazine and the Any
conferences. We will be joined by a number of Log collaborators from
Los Angeles and San Diego, including Forum President Kazys Varnelis,
Teddy Cruz, Tom Gilmore, Craig Hodgetts, Wes Jones, Bruna Mori,
Florencia Pita, and newly appointed director of the Canadian Centre
for Architecture Mirko Zardini.
Come celebrate the holidays, another great year of the LA Forum, and
the launch of Log 6.
BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
