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Date:		January to September, 2002
Event:		A Creative Competition for works that commemorate the people and events of 9.11.
Sponsor:		Produced by the Designing Worlds Creative Competition and sponsored by: Acteva.com; AIA, San Francisco Chapter; Autodesk, Inc.; Education On-Line UK Ltd; Design Within Reach; Penrose Press; Pentagram Design; Vitra, Inc.; National Center for Public Productivity/Rutgers University.
Location:		Competition is conducted via the Internet at: www.9-11-Tribute.com. Live award and commemoration event to be held in New York City, 9.11.02. Venue to be announced.
Cost:		Competition: free to students. $10 entry fee for general public, $45 for creative professionals.
Description:		With the events of September in mind, Designing Worlds has taken a new direction for this year’s annual Creative Competition. The 2002 Competition will ask students, citizens, artists, architects and designers, to "commemorate 9.11 with creativity." SUBMISSIONS The commemorative entries may be created in a variety of media: Design (architecture, graphic, industrial, digital) Fine Arts (sculpture, painting, conceptual) Original Music (song, instrumental, choral, orchestral) Prose, Poetry or Drama (spoken and written) Entries must be in digital files and uploaded to the website. File formats accepted include .jpg, .gif, .txt, .doc, mp3, swp, quicktime or real files. Maximum file size for still images, words or music is one mb. Maximum size for animation or video is three mb. There are entry classifications for primary, secondary and university students, the general public and creative professionals. Students compete as teams of three or more or by classroom. General Public and Professionals may be team or individual. Registration and info may be found at www.9-11-Tribute.com. Download a pdf of the entry form. Entries may be uploaded by registered competitors from March 1, up to deadline of July 4, 2002. All works submitted to the competition will be published on the website and in other media. The winning works and their creators will gain national exposure and recognition. Winners will receive Awards recognizing their contribution and invited to the Commemorations Ceremony.
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Date:		Wednesday February 6, 2002 To be exhibited until May, 2002
Event:		9.11 A RESPONSE A visiting artist program with Michele Brody and the public art project Re-Covering the Cityscape: Impressions of History Underfoot
Sponsor:		Made possible by a donation from Met Life.
Time:		2:00 PM
Location:		School for the Physical City by the class Constitutionally Speaking (AM). Located at 55 East 25th Street (btwn Park Ave South and Madison) In the Entrance Foyer.
Cost:		Free
Description:		During the Fall Semester Michele Brody worked with Sue Schutt and her high school class to create a series of projects that respond to the process of how they wanted memorialize the events of September 11th. For more information: www.recoveringthecityscape.com
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Date:		April 6, 2002
Event:		Ethics in Architecture Conference
Sponsor:		Congregation of St. Saviour at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York Co-Sponsored by: The AIA New York Chapter and Sciame Construction.
Time:		1:00 - 5:00PM
Location:		1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025 (Amsterdam & 110th St)
Cost:		$20.00 Donation will be collected at the door CES Lus: 4, CES HSW: 4
Description:		Agenda: 9/11, the event that shaped a generation. Is there virtue, in building a city? Do professionals design now in the same way, or do they need to build differently then before? John the Divine is being organized by architectural writers Mary Zaboglio Donovan and Elizabeth Kubany. Speakers: Prof. Jean Gardner, Parsons School of Design; Prof, Frank Harmon, FAIA of the University of North Carolina and Harvard Visiting Professor; Prof. Eugene Kremer, FAIA, of Kansas State University and the AIA's current scholar in residence, Prof. Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, of Tigerman McCurry Architects and cofounder of archeworks, Chicago; Prof. John Matteson, of John Jay College, New York City; and Leevi Kiil, FAIA, President of the AIA New York Chapter and managing partner of HLW Architects.
Contact:		www.saintsaviour.org
Telephone:		You may register by calling (212) 316-7483
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Date:		April 23, 2002
Event:		NEW YORK REBUILDS: ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT? Setting priorities after September 11th
Sponsor:		The Women’s City Club of New York, in cooperation with Con Edison and AARP.
Time:		8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Location:		Con Edison Headquarters 4 Irving Place at 14th Street New York City.
Cost:		$35 includes lunch.
Description:		To register for New York Rebuilds: Are We Getting It Right? please mail a check for $35 per person made out to the Women's City Club of New York, 33 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 This conference will deal with the effect the rebuilding, along with the recession, will have on the city’s economy and on its citizens. We will leave to others the debate over exactly how the World Trade Center site should be rebuilt. The View From City Hall AMANDA BURDEN, Chair, City Planning Commission Striking a Balance: New York’s Needs vs. Funds Available to Meet Them, a panel discussion with: JOSHUA FREEMAN, Professor of History, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, Author: Working Class New York ALAN HEVESI, former NYC Comptroller MEGAN E. MCLAUGHLIN, Executive Director/CEO, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies ROSEMARY SCANLON, NYU Real Estate Institute, former Chief Economist, Port Authority of NY and NJ ROBERT D. YARO, President, Regional Plan Association Interviewed by: MICHAEL TOMASKY, New York Magazine, Getting It Right: An Agenda for Action MIKE WALLACE, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gotham: A History of New York.
Contact:		For further information and a registration form, see our web site at www.wccny.org
Telephone:		You may also register by calling (212) 353-8070
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