WWW.Wow. Where else could you find TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, Yo Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock and ESRI‘s Jack Dangermond all in one place? It’s the WWW.WWW Conference, currently planned for September 18/20, 2012.
The conference website describes it as:
A unique un-conference that pairs two incredible and unique minds in a single venue. No presentations. No schedule. Just 100 interesting people and 50 conversations.
Richard Saul Wurman, who also founded TEDMED and the eg conferences, and coined the term information architect, is himself a M.Arch graduate who has been exploring the themes of design and place and livable urban environments since the sixties, so it is fitting that ESRI president and fellow mapping pioneer, Jack Dangermond should host the conference. You will recognize other great names associated with the event incuding glass artist Dale Chihuly, who will create an installation for the event and SEED Media Goup‘s Adam Bly as Science Curator. SEED was an original creator of what was to become one of my all-time favorite MOMA shows, Design and the Elastic Mind.
With conversations interlaced with threads of improvised music, I won’t want to miss WWW.WWW, so I’ve already added it to my calendar. The event will be streamed live to multiple locations and the talks will also be available via a yet-to-be-released, multi-platform tablet application.
Watch http://www.thewwwconference.com for details.