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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:51:33 -0700
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Dear All,
The Fall season at swissnex starts with two exciting events :
- Sept. 9, 6pm, Opening night of "Le botte-cul", exhibition around the
milking stool by the University of Art and Design in Lausanne
- Sept. 17, 6.30pm, meet with 45 executive MBA students from the
University of Zurich and a guest speaker from Yahoo!
Details below ...
SAVE THE DATES
Sept. 29, 6.30pm, "Science & Fiction" : Automatons
Sept. 30, 6.30pm, "Science & Fiction" : Autonomous robots
Oct. 1, 6.30pm, "Science & Fiction" : Human Augmentation
Oct. 2, 6.30pm, "Science & Fiction" : Mars exploration
For more details : http://www.swissnex.org/event-scifi.html
DIRECTIONS
swissnex is at 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 (between
Washington and Jackson Streets). There is nearby parking at 621
Sansome, 622 Washington, 800 Kearny, 170 Columbus, among others. For
directions :
http://www.swissnex.org/about_location.html#directions
The swissnex Team
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2004, 6 - 10pm
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«The Milking-Stool Exhibit/ West Coast Tour» - Opening night
swissnex welcomes the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL-
University of Art & Design) and its milking-stool exhibit, which was
first presented at the Swiss Cultural Center in Milan, during the
International Furniture Fair in April 2002.
ECAL invited many international designers, contributors and occasional
visitors of the Industrial Design department, as well as a selection of
students to take a new spin on the traditional milking-stool.
For more info : http://www.swissnex.org/event-ecal.html
REGISTRATION
For this special event, please register asap as space fills up rapidly
(registration link will be removed once capacity is reached)
http://www.sciencelink.org/about/registration.htm?eventID=2
PARTNERS
Pro Helvetia, Presence Switzerland, ECAL, CCA
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
“Le Botte-Cul”: Milking stool exhibition
Sept. 9 - 24, 2004 at swissnex, 730 Montgomery Street, CA 94111.
Regular exhibition hours weekdays from 8.30am to 6pm, by appointment
only with laura.erickson_at_swissnex.org
RELATED EVENTS
“An Emergent Swiss School of Design : presentation of young Swiss
designers, professors and students"
Lecture by Pierre Keller, director of ECAL, and Alexis Georgacopoulos,
Chair of Industrial Design, ECAL
Industrial Design School of the California College of the Arts (CCA)
Timken Lecture Hall, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Wednesday, September 8, at 7 p.m.
http://www.cca.edu
“Designing with Bread”
A workshop by Alexis Georgacopoulos, Chair of Industrial Design, ECAL
Industrial Design School of the California College of the Arts
Friday, September 10, 5:30-7:30pm
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2004, 6.30 - 10.00pm
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Take advantage of networking with 45 executive MBA students from the
University of Zurich on their Silicon Valley study tour and of
listening to a guest speech given by Sumir Meghani, Manager for Search
at Yahoo!
PROGRAM
6.30pm
Doors open & networking
7.00pm
- welcome by Roland Quillet (Consul General of Switzerland), Christian
Simm (Executive Director of swissnex) and Marco Demont (Managing
Director, Executive MBA University of Zurich)
- guest speech by Sumir Meghani, Manager for Search at Yahoo!
Followed by :
Q&A, cocktail-dinner and networking
REGISTRATION
For this special event, please register as soon as possible but no
later than September 13th
http://www.sciencelink.org/about/registration.htm?eventID=3
PARTNER
Executive MBA, University of Zurich
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