I’m excited to give a talk at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I’m going to walk through Christopher Alexander’s design theory and explain how to apply it to everyday web app UI work. Alexander’s book Notes on the Synthesis of Form had a huge influence on me early in my career at 37signals. It’s going to be a lot of fun to share key points from that book with an audience for the first time. I hope you can come out to see it.
Where:
MFA Interaction Design Department
132 W 21st Street, 6 Floor
New York City
When:
Wednesday, April 7
6:30-8:30PM
See the event page at the SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program to RSVP.
UPDATE: The talk is now sold-out.
Nathan Borror
on 03 Mar 10Hope they’re able to record it. Notes on Synthesis and Form is one of my favorites.
Poetry.
Marcus Baur
on 03 Mar 10I have read all of Alexanders books and met him in person a couple of times. He might well be way ahead of our time. His ideas about live and beauty dwell in that rare space where the practical meets the metaphysical. His latest work “The Nature of Order” has so much to offer for anyone who aims to create something of lasting timeless beauty.
I would love to hear your talk! I have a very good talk by Alexander to computer scientist from 1996. I can share it with you if you want.
Hakan
on 03 Mar 10Oh no, it’s already booked up! Posted at 11:30 PM EST and sold out by 9:30 AM :( Any chance they’ll expand the slots available?
Forrest
on 03 Mar 10PLEASE make your presentation available to those of us who cannot attend – video, powerpoint, podcast, anything!
RS
on 03 Mar 10The department says they will record video and post it online. They did this with Jared Spool’s talk in January.
Hakan Ensari
on 03 Mar 10I see a namesake of mine is in similar conundrum. Was going to be in NYC that week, and it would have been cool to attend. I protest.
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