Aerial Futures, Leading Edge Program by Aerial Futures

A symposium on the future of aviation and the architecture of travel. NOVEMBER 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3, 2017

A+D ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MUSEUM

900 East 4th Street Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Welcome aboard Aerial Futures, Leading Edge, a symposium on the future of aviation and the architecture of air travel. The airport is one of the most prominent forms of contemporary public architecture. The intensity and frequency of its use surpasses almost all other building types, as society depends increasingly on their regular operation and growth. These transportation hubs are not only essential to the livelihood of cities and regions, but to the individual lifestyles of a globalized population. The airport of the future needs to be an attractive urban destination that appeals to both frequent flyers and the local community. International airports face extraordinary pressure to increase performance and enhance visitor experience, while reducing environmental impact. Outstanding airport design produces highly functional and adaptable spaces that withstand intense daily use and stand up to constant technological and social transformations. In response to the surging appetite for global travel and the evolution of its complementary programs, aviation infrastructure is undergoing large-scale growth and refurbishment. Renovations, expansions and the construction of brand new terminals demand an enormous amount of resources, but also offer extraordinary opportunities for value creation. Aerial Futures, Leading Edge invites thinkers, practitioners, and industry influencers to Los Angeles to share their work with a select group of international peers and a local audience. Hosted at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, the symposium includes a series of lectures and moderated panels discussions, professional workshops and intimate site visits.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017 8:00AM — 12:30PM Los Angeles: A Hub of Global Aviation — LAX Site Visit

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Andres F. Ramirez | PLANE—SITE O P E N I N G 3:00PM Welcome 3:15 – 3:45PM Keynote: Building a Faster Future 4:00 – 5:30PM Panel: Peripheral Vision

5:30 – 6:00PM Coffee Break 6:00 – 7:30PM Panel: Let Me Entertain You

Blake Scholl | Boom Supersonic P E R I P H E R A L

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Dr. Max Hirsh | University of Hong Kong PANELISTS

Benedikt Boucsein | BHSF Architects Mark Waier | Los Angeles World Airports Jackie Coburn | Arup Bruce Upbin | Hyperloop One L E T

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Dr. Harvey Molotch | New York University PANELISTS

7:30 – 8:00PM Public Reception, A+D Museum

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Devin Liddell | Teague M. Casey Rehm | SCI-Arc Samantha Flores | Corgan Nikolaus Hafermaas | Ueberall International

P R O G R A M Friday, November 3, 2017

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Benjamin H. Bratton | UC San Diego

9:00 – 9:30AM Keynote: From Non-Places to Discontiguous Megastructures

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9:30 — 11:00AM Panel: Defining the Commons

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11:00 — 11:30AM Coffee Break 11:30AM — 1:00PM Panel: Future in the Making

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Greg Lindsay | New Cities Foundation Cynthia Nikitin | Project for Public Spaces Curtis Fentress | Fentress Architects Andrew Vasey | Vasey Aviation Group F U T U R E

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Mario Diaz | Houston Airport System PANELISTS

Hernan Diaz Alonso | SCI-Arc Benjamin Ball | Ball-Nogues Studio Bill Kreysler | Kreysler & Associates Marta Nowak | UCLA 3:00 — 6:00PM Aerial Futures Think Tanks Ubiquitous Perception, SCI-Arc — Time & Space at the Terminal, UC Berkeley — Seamless Transitions, UCLA *Limited capacity

6:30 — 8:00PM Glimpse of Metro — Union Station and LA Metro Site Visit *Limited capacity

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Thursday, November 2 8:00AM—12:30PM

Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles: A Hub of Global Aviation The site visit to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), hosted by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), will present the latest and ongoing innovative infrastructural improvements underway at the aviation hub. Participants will be able to witness LAX’s ongoing traffic from the unique perspective of the airfield. The visit also includes a walking tour of the recently renovated and expanded Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT), the improvement of which was the largest public works project in the city’s history, and an introduction to the upcoming Midfield Satellite Concourse North Project (MSC) just west of TBIT. The MSC project, which broke ground in February of 2017, will expand LAX’s capacity to serve travelers with an additional 12 gates. Passengers will be able to reach MSC through TBIT from a tunnel underneath two taxiways connecting the two buildings or via busses from other terminals throughout the LAX campus. These recent and ongoing projects are part of LAWA’s multi-billion dollar modernization and expansion of LAX, a remarkable opportunity to see both the active and under-construction terminals and airfield of one of the U.S.’s busiest airports.

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Thursday, November 2

2:30PM Arrival at the A+D Museum for Symposium 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A+D Museum will serve as the venue for Aerial Futures, Leading Edge. The A+D Museum was created to celebrate and promote an awareness of architecture and design in everyday life through exhibits, educational programs, and public outreach to the design community as well as the public in the greater Los Angeles area.

A+D Architecture and Design Museum

900 East 4th Street Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Thursday, November 2 3:15—3:45PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Building a Faster Future: The Coming Supersonic Renaissance Technology has evolved on every front, yet we are still flying at the speeds of the 1960s. Past innovations in supersonic airplanes never made it into the mainstream because the technology was not efficient enough for routine travel. Denver-based startup Boom Supersonic is building a new generation of commercial airliners. Boom’s airliner enables fares 75 percent lower than Concorde, about the same price as today’s business class tickets. This advance in efficiency is made possible by a breakthrough aerodynamic design, state-of-the-art engines, and advanced composites. The speed of air travel is getting ready to accelerate, bringing the world closer together. Boom’s progress toward a supersonic renaissance, promises to transform the social, cultural and economic dynamic of air travel, and influence the design of airports and air terminals.

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Blake Scholl Boom Supersonic

Blake Scholl is the founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic, which intends to build a 55seat supersonic jet utilizing off-the-shelf technology. Boom is designing, building, and flight testing history’s first independently developed supersonic jet. Virgin Group has signed up to be the launch customer. Blake is an avid pilot and technology entrepreneur. He previously built marketing automation at Amazon and founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs, acquired by Groupon. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Thursday, November 2 4:00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;5:30PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Peripheral VisionÂ Disruptive innovations in technology, business and society are set to revolutionize the relationship between airports and cities. Once considered disconnected by necessity, the airport of the future could reconnect to urban centers and their economies. The impact of innovation often goes unrealized until it turns an industry on its head. Stakeholders in aviation and urban development must work together to anticipate inevitable changes in the architecture of flight. Next generation autonomous devices, cutting edge ecological design and sharing economies promise to alter the airport landscape and shape its architectural contours. From zoning to parking, radical transformations lie in the immediate vicinity of airports. PANELISTS

Benedikt Boucsein | BHSF Architects Mark Waier | Los Angeles World Airports Jackie Coburn | Arup Bruce Upbin | Hyperloop One

Dr. Max Hirsh University of Hong Kong Max Hirsh (PhD, Harvard) is a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a leading expert on airports, migration, and transport infrastructure. He is the author of Airport Urbanism: an unprecedented study of air travel that incorporates the perspective of passengers, architects, planners, and aviation executives. With a particular focus on the rise of Asia, the book sheds light on the exponential increase in global air travel and its implications for the planning, design, and operation of airports worldwide. Max also writes the popular blog airporturbanism.com, where he presents leading-edge strategies for tackling the challenges that confront airports today.

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Thursday, November 2 4:00—4:15PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Noise Landscapes The expansive areas around airports affected by noise, infrastructure and transient forms of architecture are often regarded as peripheral, even as a hindrance to airport operations. But the complex relationship of these Noise Landscapes with airports informs how these airports will perform in the future—both as infrastructure and as part of the metropolitan region. On the basis of eight European case studies, the presentation provides an account of how these landscapes emerge, what takes place in them, and how they can be interpreted and influenced.

Dr. Benedikt Boucsein BHSF Architects

Benedikt Boucsein (PhD, ETH Zurich) is an architect and urban designer with a research focus on infrastructure, urban design and everyday architecture. From 2008-2017 he taught and researched at the ETH Zurich with Guest Professor Felix Claus and Prof. Kees Christiaanse. His book The Noise Landscape, co-authored with Kees Christiaanse, Eirini Kasioumi and Christian Salewski, appears in September 2017. Parallel to his academic work, Benedikt co-founded the research and publication platform Camenzind in 2005 and the architectural partnership BHSF in 2007.

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Thursday, November 2 4:15—4:30PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Improving Landside Connections at LAX Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the fourth busiest airport in the world, second in the United States, and one of Skytrax’s 2017 Top 10 Most Improved Airports. LAX is part of a system of two Southern California airports that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund. The Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) will introduce a substantial infrastructural improvement for transportation from LAX to the city. LAMP is designed to reduce traffic at the airport by adding a train into the Central Terminal Area (CTA) that connects to Los Angeles Metro’s light rail system, a consolidated rental car (ConRAC) facility, and additional parking structures with new areas for picking up and dropping off passengers. By connecting the airport terminals to parking facilities and the Metro system, the project will connect LAX and Los Angeles, while reducing congestion in and around the airport. This $5.5 billion project is the largest Public Private Partnership in the state of California and the largest capital investment project in the City of Los Angeles.

Mark Waier Los Angeles World Airports

Mark Waier is the Director of Communications for the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Prior to joining LAX, Mark served as Department Manager of Marketing and Director of Mobile Ticketing for Metrolink. During his tenure, Mark guided the redesign of the agency’s website and new media digital tactics which projected the agency to have the highest social media following of any public transit agency in the United States.

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Thursday, November 2 4:30—4:45PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

The New Golden Age of Air Travel Arup invests in research to help push solutions for the future of regional and global air travel. Industry operators, planners, developers, engineers, economists and technologists are envisioning a new golden age of air travel, realized through a digitally smart and physically streamlined travel ecosystem. We look at the entire end-to-end travel experience— collectively and as individual processes—starting from the decision to travel by air, through the overall day-of-travel experience from origin to destination, to redefine the air travel ecosystem. The convergence of virtual and physical ecosystems will ideally produce a Connected Ecosystem that is driven by intelligent connectivity, urban mobility innovations, and Smart City infrastructure initiatives. We work with our clients to collect data from these Connected systems to be used as actionable information that can be then used to improve the operational performance of aviation businesses, tailor and improve the services to passengers, increase business resilience and reduce operational risks.

Jackie Coburn Arup

Jackie Coburn is an associate principal leading Arup’s Aviation Planning team in Toronto, Canada. Jackie has a background in architecture and has specialized in aviation since joining Arup in 2008. With varied experience in airport master planning, terminal design and project management, Jackie brings a global perspective having worked on aviation projects in Canada, USA, South America, Europe and the Middle East. Most recently she has had a leading role in the development of a several large airport master plans ranging in size from 40 to 125 million annual passengers. Jackie is the lead airport planner for the Delta LAX Modernization Project (T2/T3), where she is responsible for master planning, program definition, concept design and construction phasing for the redevelopment of a 27 gate terminal.

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Thursday, November 2 4:45—5:00PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Resolving A Capacity Crisis: How Hyperloop Can Help Airports Hyperloop One is the global leader in commercializing Hyperloop, the first new major mode of transportation in 100 years. Hyperloop technology moves passengers or freight in pods using electric propulsion through low-pressure tubes, either above ground or underground. With speeds of up to 670 mph and departures every 90 seconds, Hyperloop promises a faster, safer, more convenient and energy-efficient way to connect cities and regions. Worldwide air travel demand is already outstripping airport infrastructure investments. If trends hold in Europe, 1.9 million flights will simply not fly by 2035. The U.S. needs $75 billion in new runways, terminals and other facilities to meet projected demand. Asia’s main hubs are already at capacity despite being among the largest in the world. For most large airports, on-site expansion is nearly impossible due to development limits. But what if one could increase capacity by linking a maxed-out large airport to a smaller, regional airport to create new capacity? An ultra-fast Hyperloop link makes this possible, creating one airport out of two at a fraction of the cost of expanding runways. Hyperloop One explores the possibility of creating this new capacity and giving aviation authorities a powerful new tool to balance passenger flows across an entire region.

Bruce Upbin Hyperloop One

Bruce Upbin is VP of Strategic Communications for Hyperloop One, where his main role is to connect audiences globally to the promise and reality of the first new mode of transportation in 100 years. Since joining the company in May 2016, Bruce has helped establish the company’s brand and value proposition as a technology that can transform the way we live and work. Prior to joining Hyperloop One, he worked as a business journalist for 25 years, and ran Forbes Media’s worldwide technology coverage from 2008 to 2016, overseeing a network of more than 120 contributors.

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Thursday, November 2 6:00—7:30PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Let Me Entertain You In its infancy, air travel offered spectacle and amusement. Now more than ever, airports play a powerful role in consumer and popular culture, not just for frequent flyers. Digital media and spatial design offer a vast marketplace of information that can facilitate mobile commerce and enhance social interactions. The spectrum of data that permeates airport environments will only continue to expand. Architecture will need to incorporate and organize multi-sensory experiences that optimize way-finding and enjoyment.

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Devin Liddell | Teague M. Casey Rehm | SCI-Arc Samantha Flores | Corgan Nikolaus Hafermaas | Ueberall International

Dr. Harvey Molotch New York University Harvey Molotch is Professor of Sociology at New York University. His writings on cities pay special attention to city growth, urban security, everyday artifacts and product design. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Among his 8 books and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters is Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger (Princeton University Press, 2012). Prior to NYU (2000), he was Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Thursday, November 2 6:00—6:15PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Designing for the Seams: Better Physical & Digital In-betweens The word “seamless” is too often bandied about in transportation design literature. But “seamless” is not only an impossible fantasy—it’s not the experience we should be designing anyway. Instead, we should be creating datadriven breakthroughs within the “seams” themselves, all those in-between moments in every passenger’s journey. Better “seams” in way finding, commerce, social interactions and throughout the airport experience is the real design opportunity in front of us. Designing for the Seams will illuminate this opportunity in terms of how we’ll need to connect, inspire, entertain, and solve problems for passengers in the airports of the future.

Devin Liddell TEAGUE

Devin Liddell leads the brand strategy offer for design consultancy TEAGUE, working collaboratively with clients such as AnheuserBusch InBev, The Boeing Company, Intel, JW Marriott, Microsoft, and SC Johnson to create research-driven brand strategies and consumer experiences. With more than a decade of experience in brand strategy and design, Devin has worked across a broad spectrum of industries: aerospace, higher education, software/ technology, food and beverage, and retail; his past clients include Amazon, GE, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Nordstrom, Seattle Symphony and Starbucks. His work has been featured in Brandweek and Brand Strategy, and he teaches regularly at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, Washington.

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Thursday, November 2 6:15â&#x20AC;&#x201D;6:30PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

M. Casey Rehm SCI-Arc

Designing Perception The contemporary state of ubiquitous surveillance and the emergent cultural ease with the exposure of personal information produce a new design territory to be engaged by the discipline of architecture. The presentation proposes an interface-driven architectural project, defined by localized moments of coherence within complex fields of information. This agenda emerges from a multilayered investigation into non-human forms of perception and intelligence. The projects presented will range from the transformation of algorithms embedded in our daily social exchanges, to the logic for material organization, to interactive works that test the role of media and interaction in a domestic space for an increasingly narcissistic culture.

M. Casey Rehm is a designer and algorithmic consultant whose firm Kinch is based in Los Angeles. In addition to his practice he is a full time faculty member at SCI-Arc. He received a MSAAD from Columbia University in 2009 and his BArch from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He has over 12 years of architectural experience, working for firms in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London. In addition to his professional experience, Casey has been a full time faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, assisted studios at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pratt Institute. Currently he teaches graduate design studios and seminars in programming, interactive media and robotics in design.

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Thursday, November 2 6:30—6:45PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Immersive Technologies & Passenger Experience Now is the time to return the aura of adventure to the airport. Designers are at work with immersive technologies, to bring the passenger experience back to the romantic ideals of the past. Biometric screening will diffuse out across the terminal, facial recognition at curbside will facilitate check-in, security screening will be seamless as you enter the terminal, and forms of identification will be replaced by a fingerprint scans. Airports can also leverage these technologies to personalize offerings. Airlines can track passengers and know their exact location in the terminal, so that customers can be identified by name as they enter the airline lounge, or receive their personalized benefits. Technology is increasing exponentially, and it is pertinent to understand how this affects the traveler’s experience. Today’s passengers are willing to give their data and information freely, but they expect more memorable experiences in return. Collecting and appropriately utilizing passenger data affords airports the opportunity to give passengers a more cohesive engagement with their environment.

Samantha Flores Corgan

Samantha Flores is an architect at Corgan in Dallas,Texas. She has 5 years of experience working with Corgan’s Aviation Studio as an experiential design specialist, developing the evolution of the passenger experience. Her research concentrates on in-depth passenger profiling, design-applied wayfinding analysis, and developing predictions and implementation of new technologies in aviation design. These ideas have developed through her research-driven design work on several projects; one such as the new satellite concourse at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, which upon completion in 2018, will be the largest satellite concourse in the world. She received a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University in 2012, and her BArch from Oklahoma State University in 2010.

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Thursday, November 2 6:45—7:00PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Airport as Catalyst for Next-Gen Dynamic Art Contemporary airports are the ideal probing-ground for landmark artworks that push the limits of technology and architectural integration. These installations share a common aim, which is to elevate the traveler’s experience by bringing a sense of wonder to environments that often feel generic and predominantly commerce-driven. Site-specific interventions must be carefully crafted and coordinated with architects, engineers, and other airport stakeholders, to achieve a sense of place that doesn’t interfere with airport operations. An increasing number of these installations rely on innovative materials and digital technologies to merge sculptural form with time-based, data-driven and responsive behavior. Sustainability and longevity are critical factors for successful media-based pieces; as their projected lifespan, maintenance requirements and long-term energy consumption need to be considered in the design process. With dynamic, new materials such as LCD glass and e-Paper, artists can create digital sculptures at an architectural scale that liberate digital content from the confines of conventional display technology; to create pieces that can stand out in even the most information-rich and complex environments.

Nikolaus Hafermaas Ueberall International

Nikolaus Hafermaas is an international award-winning artist, designer, and educational leader. His Los Angeles based artist platform Ueberall International conceives and produces mediatecture installations converging digital media and spatial experiences. His artist team is responsible for designing the first awardwinning SoReal virtual reality entertainment center in Beijing, China. Nik has just completed DAZZLE, a landmark art project for the San Diego International Airport, the world’s largest media façade made of e-paper. As the Department Chair for graduate and undergraduate Graphic Design at ArtCenter College of Design, Nik has created a new curriculum, fusing print and packaging, motion and interaction design into Transmedia Design.

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Friday, November 3 9:00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;9:30AM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

From Non-Places to Discontiguous Megastructures: Airports & Sovereignty Airports are not on the outskirts; they are a core node in the urban fabric of the network society. They house international borders even in landlocked cities, they link regular and irregular passages of peoples and things, they stage strange juxtapositions of security programming and entertainment experiences, and they focus the obsessions of political violence and its theaters of power and resistance. Even as moonbaselike microcosms of the cities they serve, airports are more than mere appendages; they are laboratories of global social flows: charter cities with fully itinerant populations.

Dr. Benjamin Bratton UC San Diego

Benjamin H. Bratton is sociological, media, and design theorist. He is Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is Program Director of the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is also a Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School and Visiting Faculty at SCI-Arc (The Southern California Institute of Architecture). His work sits at the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media & infrastructure, and architectural & urban design problems and methodologies.

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Friday, November 3 9:30—11:00AM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Defining the Commons Since their inception as spaces for transit, airports have become important civic buildings, adopting significance in social, cultural and public life. Despite how accessible they may look or feel, airports follow carefully managed formulas of ownership and access. Architecture must develop methods for co-creating open and secure air terminal spaces. Airports have the potential to host a collaborative dialogue between public and private stakeholders, while adopting inventive platforms for participation and knowledge exchange. The unique role of airports as public spaces profoundly impact the development of policies, regulations and legal frameworks that determine the shifting business models for their operation. PANELISTS

Cynthia Nikitin | Project for Public Spaces Curtis Fentress | Fentress Architects Andrew Vasey | Vasey Aviation Group

Greg Lindsay New Cities Foundation Greg Lindsay is a senior fellow of the New Cities Foundation—where he leads the Connected Mobility Initiative—and the director of strategy for LACoMotion, a new mobility festival coming to the Arts District of Los Angeles in November 2017. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, a contributing writer for Fast Company, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

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Friday, November 3 9:30—9:45AM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Airports as Public Spaces: the Allegory of the Commons One needs to hearken back to the turn of the last century, when train stations, subways and metro stations played a similar role as airports do today. They too were points of arrival and departure and gateways to cities. But due to the nature of their ownership structure and strict security precautions, airports operate more like federal office buildings —Courthouses and IRS offices—or shopping malls than as true “public spaces.” Transit agencies and federal buildings have forged successful partnerships with their passenger communities and customers. They leverage large, public investments by programming and designing civic facilities and infrastructure projects as destinations. These places attract and serve a wider range of publics and public functions, in order to generate greater shared value of the public realm. Airports around the world have sought to create a sense of place as well as providing programs and amenities that serve the resident public. As passenger populations continue to soar, it becomes imperative to assess the tradeoff between mitigating against every conceivable security risk and fomenting an environment, which is in effect “self policed” and monitored by the users of the space themselves. From real estate developers to local business owners and corporations, the private sector is entering the public realm. What can airports learn from similar public buildings, and what are the implications for strengthening and guiding public-private partnerships in the future?

Cynthia Nikitin Project for Public Spaces

Cynthia Nikitin has led numerous large-scale multi-sectoral placebased community-led projects during her twenty five years with Project for Public Spaces. She is directing the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts which focuses on providing technical design assistance to rural communities and small towns across the United States. Cynthia also manages the Heart of the Community program, a partnership with Southwest Airlines to create transformative public spaces. Most recently, she has been a lead trainer and technical assistance advisor to ThinkCity, an urban regeneration organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Friday, November 3 9:45—10:00AM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Public in 21st Century Architecture Over the last 30 years, public architecture has transformed to reflect a more democratic, urban and complex society. Architectural language for the representation of the public has shifted away from classical forms, largely enabled by technology. Participation and complex stakeholder groups now play an important role in the design process and most buildings have developed very strict security demands. As civic places of high visibility, collective meaning and iconic monumentality, airports share characteristics with other public buildings of our time –such as museums, libraries, courthouses or churches. But while the more traditional buildings and institutions are slow to change, airports can barely keep up with a growing public: passengers and their appetite for global mobility. In terms of traffic, frequency and duration of stay, the airport takes the lead as the fastest growing building for public use. Moreover, its programmatic versatility allows it to incorporate many more functions than other buildings. What has established the airport as one of the most prominent public buildings of the 21st century? As a young and innovative building type, the airport requires a high level of flexibility in order to respond to changes in our society and culture. Constantly shaping and reacting to the fast-paced rhythm of today’s globalized world, the airport challenges conventions and defines new paradigms within mobility, trade, culture and power.

Curtis Fentress Fentress Architects

Curtis Fentress is an American architect and Principal Airport Terminal Designer at Fentress Architects, an international design studio he founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1980. Fentress’ airports have garnered recognition worldwide for design excellence and outstanding “airside-to-curbside” traveler experience. These include game-changing international airports such as Denver, Incheon and the LAX international terminal. Recipient of the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in 2010, Fentress has developed a reputation as a hybrid architect, developing iconic design and high-profile public architecture.

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A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Looking Back to Move Forward: Partnerships & Trade-Offs at Airports Airports have always been partnerships between public and private entities. Over the past 100 years of aviation the role of the airport has been developed by the collaboration of aeronautical engineers, the military, the airlines and local governments. The collaboration is dynamic and has expanded to include airports as â&#x20AC;&#x153;cities,â&#x20AC;? with their own economic development missions and representations as the civic front door to the community. The early iconic airport terminals were actually financed, designed and constructed by airlines such as TWA for its Saarinen terminal at JFK and Pan Am for the Worldport, also at JFK. They represented the aspirations unlocked by the new jet age, where a paved mile or two of runway could take you almost anywhere in the world. The private sector continues to partner with and invest in airports and their communities today, although the impact and reach of the public/private partnerships has expanded this collaboration beyond the boundaries of the airport, and opened up critical discussions regarding the challenges and benefits of these collaborations. While no one approach or solution fits all communities, there are exciting lessons and opportunities coming to the forefront of this public/private collaboration.

Andrew Vasey Vasey Aviation Group

Andrew Vasey is the president and founder of Vasey Aviation Group, providing advisory, operational, strategic and infrastructure advisory services to private equity funds, airlines and airport operators. Mr. Vasey has over thirty years of experience with the financing, planning, design, construction and operation of airport facilities across the US, Europe and Russia. He most recently was the senior advisor to Oaktree Infrastructure Fund and the Chief Development Officer on the $615 million acquisition of the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Friday, November 3 11:30AM—1:00PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Future in the Making Because of the unprecedented demands in size, performance, and construction constraints airports are perfect test beds for computational design, rapid prototyping and digital fabrication. Architecture is pioneering technologies that allow for greater sophistication in form finding, materiality and manufacturing efficiency. Ingenious ways of re-mastering old approaches to design and production are powerful vehicles for exploration and groundbreaking experimentation. From structures to materials, construction to operation, airport mega projects challenge designers to push the envelope in the production of highly complex buildings.

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Hernan Diaz Alonso | SCI-Arc Benjamin Ball | Ball-Nogues Studio Bill Kreysler | Kreysler & Associates Marta Nowak | UCLA

Mario Diaz Houston Airport System Mario C. Diaz is Director of the City of Houston Department of Aviation. He is responsible for the executive leadership of the Houston Airport System (HAS) and its three aviation facilities—George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) and Ellington Airport (EFD)— and its more than 1,300 employees. He is one of the industry’s leading authorities in the study of future developments in commercial aviation. In 2013, Airport Revenue News Magazine named Diaz “Airport Director of the Year.”

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Friday, November 3 11:30—11:45AM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Augmenting Our Humanity: the Airport as the Laboratory How do we design our humanity? The dystopia scenarios of the cyborg haven’t turned out to be as scary as we once thought they might be. Our humanity turned out to be far more resilient. Instead of technologies turning us into machines, we are humanizing technologies. Devices are becoming friendly, conversant, and smart. Like us. The designed objects that we equip ourselves with extend our very human abilities. We not only run faster, but we think quicker, and perhaps even feel more deeply. Through our equipment, we can touch a person on the other side of the world. We can think about things we did not know. We can share experiences with complete strangers. How can we design the airport to a living dynamic organism? The airport is more than just a complicated pile of regulations and properties. It is the place where culture could be made, in the sense that people move from one culture to another. The airport is dramatic theatre where we make and watch stories unfold. We watch people perform, but we are also the performers. If we study the airport more carefully as a living organism, how the expansion of energy and new forms of mobility will play into, could we have new ideas for how the airport should be designed? What kind of rules do we need to compete in this arena? What should the playing field look like? What kind of equipment will we need? As architects we fundamentally believe that design is a primary force for cultural change. We believe that design sets the rules for how we act and communicate. Design builds constituencies.

Hernan Diaz Alonso SCI-Arc

Hernan Diaz Alonso assumed the role of SCIArc director beginning in the 2015 academic year. He is widely credited with spearheading SCIArc’s transition to digital technologies, and he played a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum over the last decade. In parallel to his role at SCI-Arc, Diaz Alonso is principal of the Los Angeles– based architecture office Xefirotarch. His multidisciplinary practice is praised for its work at the intersection of design, animation, interactive environments, and radical architectural explorations. Over the course of his career as an architect and educator, Diaz Alonso has earned accolades for his leadership and innovation, as well as his ability to build partnerships among varied constituencies

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Friday, November 3 11:45AM—12:00PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Benjamin Ball Ball-Nogues Studio

Air Gardens Public art has the power to recast the airport experience. Through the lens of built projects and proposals by BallNogues Studio, Air Gardens will reveal how public art can challenge traveller’s expectations about their surroundings and inject a subjective point of view into airport spaces that are too often defined by security protocols, surveillance and control. The works explore proprietary processes of production, both digital and analog. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement.

Benjamin Ball is leading the integrated design and fabrication practice Ball-Nogues Studio, in collaboration with Gaston Nogues. Operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, their work is informed by the exploration of craft. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement. The Studio (established 2004) has exhibited at major institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale.

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Friday, November 3 12:00—12:15PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Composites in Architecture: When, Where, How, Why? Fiber reinforced composites are a widely used group of composites, with promising benefits for highly complex, large-scale architectural projects. Well accepted in marine, industrial and aerospace applications, composites are finally gaining greater acceptance in construction and the greater building industry. As with any new material, there are times when its application is appropriate and times when it’s not. Fiber reinforced composites can facilitate expressive architecture, systems of detailed design and quality, but it is necessary to establish clear specifications in relationship to more traditional materials. These may also require special attention to rigorous building codes, specifically those relating to fire resistance. By working out alternatives carefully during the design phase, budgets and production times can be kept at a minimum.

Bill Kreysler Kreysler & Associates

William Kreysler is founder and CEO of Kreysler & Associates (K&A), a custom molder of fiber reinforced polymer products located in Napa County CA. K&A has won awards for excellence in the manufacture of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) architectural products, industrial products, and large-scale sculptures. The firm has customers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Before founding K&A in 1982, Mr. Kreysler was Executive VP and Production Manager for the Performance Sailcraft Corporation (PSC), Northern California’s largest manufacturer of sailboats at the time. He is a founding member and President of the Digital Fabrication Network.

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Friday, November 3 12:15—12:30PM

A+D Architecture and Design Museum 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Shipping and Handling: Human Body in Transit The term “prosthesis” is most commonly used to describe physical and material objects that replace or restore biological organs—artificial body parts, such as a leg, a heart, or a breast implant. However, as sociocultural objects with a complex set of meanings and associations, prostheses are also used to refer to technological systems that extend beyond the physical or corporeal limits of the human body. In most contemporary scholarly literature, especially those in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and cultural studies, prosthesis is often used synonymously to common forms of bodymachine interface that intervenes on human subjectivity. In architecture the conceptual and metaphorical relationship between the human body and non-human objects, fabricated devices and technologies remained absent. As a result, the contemporary body, as an ideal, standardized, and trivialized object of modernity, is rarely investigated, challenged, or redefined in relation to its increasingly artificial milieu visibly especially in airport check in areas, security gates, airport hallways and gates lounges. The forms, functions, and meanings that constitute the design of airports, have often remained indifferent to the bodies that occupy, inhabit, or use them. There is, therefore, a disciplinary, pedagogical, and professional gap or a void between the technologies of the environment and the physical and material conditions of the body that occupy it.

Marta Nowak UCLA

Marta Nowak is a lecturer at UCLA A.UD for the Craig Hodgetts SUPRASTUDIO at the IDEAS campus. She is founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS, a transdisciplinary design firm based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the role of architecture and design at the intersection of technology, mobility and the human body. Her research at UCLA involves investigation of prosthetic devices, mobile microspaces and included collaborations with Red Bull eSports High Performance, Art Center as well as Hyperloop. She also worked as an editorial assistant at Harvard Design Magazine and was a Fellow at the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) where she worked on the Cities and Climate Change Initiative.

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Aerial Futures, Seamless Transitions Aerial Futures, Seamless Transitions anticipates the metamorphosis of mobility devices, infrastructure, and way finding to interrogate the future of arrivals and departures in the ground-based infrastructure airfields. This think tank responds to recent advances in autonomous vehicle design as well as the coming wave of specialized vehicles and systems, which will define the future of access to assess their impact on the planning of future airports. Autonomous mobility devices will enable a reassessment of the spatial precepts of airfields and their relationship to the surrounding urban landscape, with a concurrent compression of the footprint required by rental, passenger, and service parking. Participants will speculate on how these changes may enhance the passenger experience by the creation of specialized baggage handling, arrival and departure devices and the like, based on developing transportation technology and advances in materials handling to create a system of hand-offs devoted to an uninterrupted arrival experience.

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Craig Hodgetts UCLA Craig Hodgetts is a UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Professor who leads the Hodgetts SUPRASTUDIO at the IDEAS campus. Hodgetts is Principal and Co-Founder of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, and is an internationally recognized architect known for his imaginative synthesis of architecture, arts and technology. With a broad ranging background in automotive design, theater, and architecture grounded by Mid-Western traditions, Hodgetts brings dramatic concepts to life by means of an uncompromising application of constructive methodology. He has been called upon to produce full-scale architectural projects, master plans, urban designs, exhibition installations, entertainment venues, and industrial products.

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Friday, November 3 3:00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;6:00PM

Aerial Futures, Ubiquitous Perception Aerial Futures, Ubiquitous Perception responds to evolving technology in artificial intelligence, machine vision and augmented reality, to speculate on the future of airport architecture. The think tank will envision a near future, in which the ability to precisely locate and identify every traveler from curb to gate will influence the organizational, formal and experiential nature of architecture. Ubiquitous computing allows us to re-territorialize the primary hierarchies of curbside, security, and gateside areas and the proportional real-estate they embody. The primary focus will be to re-imagine security methods and passenger experience, through the use of augmented reality. Participants will consider how the creation of 3D digital media on a per-traveler basis can transform retail, layovers, and way finding; and discuss costs and benefits of voluntarily enacting this form of ubiquitous panopticon from both the traveler and operators.

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M. Casey Rehm SCI-Arc M. Casey Rehm is a designer and algorithmic consultant whose firm Kinch is based in Los Angeles. In addition to his practice he is a full time faculty member at SCI-Arc. He received a MSAAD from Columbia University in 2009 and his BArch from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He has over 12 years of architectural experience, working for firms in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London. In addition to his professional experience, Casey has been a full time faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, assisted studios at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pratt Institute. Currently he teaches graduate design studios and seminars in programming, interactive media and robotics in design.

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Friday, November 3 3:00—6:00PM

Aerial Futures, Time & Space at the Terminal Time and space in airports are often perceived as more of an obstacle than an enjoyable experience. Examining traveling publics and terminal spaces, this workshop looks at diverse passenger experiences of waiting, eating, shopping and other activities that might take place. Participants in Aerial Futures, Time & Space at the Terminal will visit a popular retail location in downtown LA to conduct basic fieldwork that will inform a forthcoming discussion. The think tank will diagram the passenger experience, considering the role of time in the design of interior airport spaces. The group will establish a conceptual framework for user groups, relative to their experience waiting in contained retail environments, and the impact this has on their behavior.

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Dr. Margaret Crawford UC Berkeley Margaret Crawford is Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, teaching courses in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and urban history and studios focusing on small-scale urbanity. Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. She has written and edited several books including Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment, recently investigated the rapid physical and social changes in China’s Pearl River Delta.

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Friday, November 3 6:30—8:00PM

LA Metro, Union Station

Anthony Loui LA Metro

Glimpses of Metro LA Metro is transforming mobility at major gateways in Los Angeles. Attendees of Glimpse of Metro will walk with Metro staff to Little Tokyo station and board Metro Gold Line for a short ride to Los Angeles’ Union Station. They will tour the historic hub which also contains LA Metro’s headquarters, where there will be an introduction to the ongoing projects increasing connectivity and mass transit between Los Angeles and LAX. Both the Airport Metro Connector project and related transit and LAX airport projects will connect customers and transit support functions from LA’s existing Metro lines to LAX. Cocktails and a film screening will follow.

Anthony Loui has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of city planning, architecture, urban design, transportation planning, policy and implementation. With extensive experience in evaluating and recommending new public transportation investments, he also participates in other policy activities undertaken, including public-private partnership arrangements, transit-oriented development initiatives and intermodal policy development. He currently works in California at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).

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Benjamin Ball Ball-Nogues Studio

Dr. Benedikt Boucsein BHSF Architects

Dr. Benjamin Bratton UC San Diego

Benjamin Ball is leading the integrated design and fabrication practice Ball-Nogues Studio, in collaboration with Gaston Nogues. Operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, their work is informed by the exploration of craft. Essential to each project is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;designâ&#x20AC;? of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement. The Studio (established 2004) has exhibited at major institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale.

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Jackie Coburn Arup

Dr. Margaret Crawford UC Berkeley

Mario Diaz Houston Airport System

Margaret Crawford is Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, teaching courses in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and urban history and studios focusing on small-scale urbanity. Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. She has written and edited several books including Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment, recently investigated the rapid physical and social changes in China’s Pearl River Delta.

Mario C. Diaz is Director of the City of Houston Department of Aviation. He is responsible for the executive leadership of the Houston Airport System (HAS) and its three aviation facilities—George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) and Ellington Airport (EFD)— and its more than 1,300 employees. He is one of the industry’s leading authorities in the study of future developments in commercial aviation. In 2013, Airport Revenue News Magazine named Diaz “Airport Director of the Year.”

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Hernan Diaz Alonso SCI-Arc

Steve Dumas Westfield

Curtis Fentress Fentress Architects

Steve Dumas is the design lead of Westfield’s Architecture Studio, responsible for the placemaking and experience-setting elements of Westfield’s U.S. portfolio. Dumas oversees the architecture, ambiance, and furnishings for all Westfield shopping centers, airport projects and transit hubs. Since joining the company in 1994, he has been instrumental in the experiential components that comprise every Westfield project, from architecture to individual tenant design, marketing communication, branding, and amenity elements. Recent notable projects overseen by Dumas include Terminals 1, 2, 6, and the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX, and the design of the recently completed $1 billion redevelopment of Westfield Century City, Westfield’s flagship shopping center located in the heart of Los Angeles.

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Samantha Flores Corgan

Nikolaus Hafermaas Ueberall International

Christopher Hawthorne The Los Angeles Times

Samantha Flores is an architect at Corgan in Dallas,Texas. She has 5 years of experience working with Corganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aviation Studio as an experiential design specialist, developing the evolution of the passenger experience. Her research concentrates on in-depth passenger profiling, design-applied wayfinding analysis, and developing predictions and implementation of new technologies in aviation design. These ideas have developed through her research-driven design work on several projects; one such as the new satellite concourse at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, which upon completion in 2018, will be the largest satellite concourse in the world. She received a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University in 2012, and her BArch from Oklahoma State University in 2010.

Nikolaus Hafermaas is an international award-winning artist, designer, and educational leader. His Los Angeles based artist platform Ueberall International conceives and produces mediatecture installations converging digital media and spatial experiences. His artist team is responsible for designing the first awardwinning SoReal virtual reality entertainment center in Beijing, China. Nik has just completed DAZZLE, a landmark art project for the San Diego International Airport, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest media faĂ§ade made of e-paper. As the Department Chair for graduate and undergraduate Graphic Design at ArtCenter College of Design, Nik has created a new curriculum, fusing print and packaging, motion and interaction design into Transmedia Design.

Christopher Hawthorne has been the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times since 2004. He is also professor of practice at Occidental College, where since 2015 he has directed the Third Los Angeles Project, a series of public conversations about architecture, urban planning, mobility, and demographic change in Southern California. Before joining the Los Angeles Times he was architecture critic for Slate, contributing editor at Metropolis magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and has contributed essays to numerous books on art, architecture, and design, including Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream (Yale University Press).

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Dr. Max Hirsh University of Hong Kong

Craig Hodgetts UCLA

Max Hirsh (PhD, Harvard) is a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a leading expert on airports, migration, and transport infrastructure. He is the author of Airport Urbanism: an unprecedented study of air travel that incorporates the perspective of passengers, architects, planners, and aviation executives. With a particular focus on the rise of Asia, the book sheds light on the exponential increase in global air travel and its implications for the planning, design, and operation of airports worldwide. Max also writes the popular blog airporturbanism.com, where he presents leading-edge strategies for tackling the challenges that confront airports today.

Craig Hodgetts is a UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Professor who leads the Hodgetts SUPRASTUDIO at the IDEAS campus. Hodgetts is Principal and Co-Founder of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, and is an internationally recognized architect known for his imaginative synthesis of architecture, arts and technology. With a broad ranging background in automotive design, theater, and architecture grounded by Mid-Western traditions, Hodgetts brings dramatic concepts to life by means of an uncompromising application of constructive methodology. He has been called upon to produce full-scale architectural projects, master plans, urban designs, exhibition installations, entertainment venues, and industrial products.

Agatha Kessler

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Agatha Kessler has worked as an executive in the worlds of finance and technology, building international businesses in emerging products with VISA and HewlettPackard. Energized by the intersection of technology, business and design, in 2007 Agatha joined Fentress Architects as CEO. She holds an MBA and has lived in many cities around the world. Currently, as Chairman of Fentress Architects, Agatha serves on a number of boards, including Opera Colorado and the Design Futures Council. With a keen interest in the future of air travel, Agatha is pursuing a PhD in Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Bill Kreysler Kreysler & Associates

Devin Liddell TEAGUE

Greg Lindsay New Cities Foundation

Greg Lindsay is a senior fellow of the New Cities Foundation—where he leads the Connected Mobility Initiative—and the director of strategy for LACoMotion, a new mobility festival coming to the Arts District of Los Angeles in November 2017. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, a contributing writer for Fast Company, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

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Anthony Loui LA Metro

Dr. Harvey Molotch New York University

Cynthia Nikitin Project for Public Spaces

Anthony Loui has more than 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in the field of city planning, architecture, urban design, transportation planning, policy and implementation. He has worked for the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) at the Federal Transit Administration in Washington, DC. With extensive experience in evaluating and recommending new public transportation investments, he also participates in other policy activities undertaken, including public-private partnership arrangements, transit-oriented development initiatives and intermodal policy development. He currently works in California at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).

Harvey Molotch is Professor of Sociology at New York University. His writings on cities pay special attention to city growth, urban security, everyday artifacts and product design. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Among his 8 books and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters is Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger (Princeton University Press, 2012). Prior to NYU (2000), he was Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Cynthia Nikitin has led numerous large-scale multi-sectoral placebased community-led projects during her twenty five years with Project for Public Spaces. She is directing the Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Institute on Rural Design, a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts which focuses on providing technical design assistance to rural communities and small towns across the United States. Cynthia also manages the Heart of the Community program, a partnership with Southwest Airlines to create transformative public spaces. Most recently, she has been a lead trainer and technical assistance advisor to ThinkCity, an urban regeneration organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Marta Nowak UCLA

Andres F. Ramirez PLANEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;SITE

M. Casey Rehm SCI-Arc

Andres F. Ramirez is a sociologist and urban planner, investigating the semantics of space and its socio-cultural implications. As a project manager, program curator, and independent consultant in architecture and urban planning he works in projects with an emphasis on social processes and public space. He is co-founder and Managing Partner of PLANEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;SITE, an agency devoted to the production and dissemination of original content for architecture and the built environment. Andres is a research advisor at the AEDES Network Campus Berlin Architecture Forum and an ambassador for the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction awards 2017.

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Blake Scholl Boom Supersonic

Bruce Upbin Hyperloop One

Andrew Vasey Vasey Aviation Group

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Mark Waier Los Angeles World Airports Mark Waier is the Director of Communications for the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Prior to joining LAX, Mark served as Department Manager of Marketing and Director of Mobile Ticketing for Metrolink. During his tenure, Mark guided the redesign of the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website and new media digital tactics which projected the agency to have the highest social media following of any public transit agency in the United States.

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