Full video of the DLD Conference on the Future of Organic Design can be seen online or downloaded at ForaTV.

Architecture and Vision | from Pyramids to Spacecraft
travelling exhibition
Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, March 11-24, 2009
Swissnex, San Francisco, April 30 – May 20, 2009

Opening on March 11, 2009, at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, From Pyramids to Spacecraft is a travelling exhibition displaying selected projects by AV.
This is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to the work of AV.

Projects and models on display include the tent for extreme environment DesertSeal, the habitable rover for space missions MarsCruiserOne , the inflatable laboratory MoonBaseTwo, and the habitable mobile lounge MercuryHouseOne.

A catalogue will be published with a foreword by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, New York. The catalogue will present the vision and designs of the studio, and considerations on the team’s work by other architects, designers, scientists and critics.

Paola Antonelli will give a speech at the exhibition opening in Chicago March 11, 2009, and Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will present their work.

After Chicago, the exhibition will be displayed at Swissnex in San Francisco, opening April 30, 2009.

Visit the exhibition website

ORD CampUIC Innovation Center, Chicago, USA, January 30-31, 2009Arturo Vittori has been invited at the ORD Camp, the gathering underwritten by Inventables and Google, that will be hosted at the new UIC Innovation Center in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, January 30-31, 2009.Inspired by Foo Camp in California, of which it will borrow the format, this first ORD Camp will see 100 leading technology thinkers giving talks and share their work and thinking to cross-fertilize ideas, exploring topics that transcend traditional boundaries.

Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will design the interior of Project Enterprise by Talis Enterprise – the only privately-funded Space Tourism program in Europe, that will bring the first individuals into space from Airport Magdeburg Cochstedt by 2013.In the future, Talis Enterprise will bring tourists in suborbital space in Germany. In 2004 the project has already begun and flight simulations completed. The company with its headquarters at Cochstedt airport, near Magdeburg is expected to launch the first manned flights in 2013. Specialist companies in rocket technology and a team of experienced engineers develop the aircraft, which will bring passengers at altitudes up to 125 kilometers, where they will experience weightlessness for several minutes – more than in any Parabolic flight. The flight will cost 150,000 euros.The designs of the interiors will be presented beginning of February 2009 at www.talis-enterprise.com.”The interior for our spaceship is of elementary significance. Because we are not flying trained astronauts for scientific missions into space, but people like you and me who are living their dream, “says Ing. Peer Gehrmann, founder and CEO of Talis Enterprise Ltd. Comfort and safety are of prime importance, so these space tourists can enjoy their journey into weightlessness. A cabin stuffed with machines like the U.S. space shuttle or the Russian Soyuz capsules, will not be found in the passenger module of the Enterprise.”In weightlessness a chair is not simply a chair, because there’s no top and down and nothing stands still and firmly on the ground. For the interior design of the Enterprise, we therefore look that the journey will not become a walk on a tightrope for the Space tourists. Matt colors and dark tones will control the glare by the sunlight, so the view of the stars and the planet Earth can be enjoyed,” say Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler.

Verso l’aeroporto: Pianificazione e sviluppo del Territorio
Viterbo, Italy, October 11, 2008

Arturo Vittori has been invited to speak at the one-day conference Verso l’aeroporto: Pianificazione e sviluppo del Territorio, devoted to the future Airport of Viterbo – the project, its development, and impact on the Region.
With Seatbelts Fastened, Arturo will give the audience an overview of how iconic buildings can enhance the identity of the place and act as strategical marketing tools for the region. How a modern airport can enhance the pleasure of travel, fulfill international standards and create a new center for regional cultural identity, economics and social dynamics.

University of Rome La Sapienza
Life in Motion, final presentations

Life in Motion, the undergraduate course in Industrial Design, at the First Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni,” University of Rome La Sapienza (Prima Facoltà di Architettura “Ludovico Quaroni” dell’Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy), ended with the final presentations of the projects of the students.
Click on the image above or here to watch the gallery with some of the projects.

RFR, Paris, June 27, 2008, 13.00-14.00
4 rue d’Enghien, F 75010 Paris

Andreas Vogler has been invited by the engineering company RFR, in Paris to present AV’s vision and projects on Friday June 27.

SOM, Chicago, IL, May 16, 2008

Arturo Vittori has been invited by SOM – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, in Chicago, to present AV’s vision and projects on Friday May 16.
The meeting is meant to “establish discourse with those who identify and explore the designed environment” in the hope that the dialogue will pose new questions, challenges, and creative inspiration.

DesertSeal in the White Desert
Egypt, January 24, 2007 – January 29, 2008

“DesertSeal” has been taken for a trekking and photographed in the beautiful arid White Desert (West Egypt / Near Lybian frontier) for 3 days. To the astonishment and admiration of the local population it has been used and photographed by our special reporter on the site, Céline Laurière.

See the gallery.

On November 11, in Munich, Sputnik realized a Video Interview with Architecture and Vision.

Sputnik Inc. is a cultural intelligenceagency that provides business forecasting solutions. Sputnik cultural analysis isbased on Mindtrends®, its proprietary mapping methodology which interconnects andinterprets the ideas of leading, contemporary thinkers within the arts, sciencesand technology. A satellite operation, Sputnik employs a network of correspondentsin key cities throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.

The Sputnik Library consists of original, filmed interviews with over 700 leading, contemporary thinkers around the worldwithin the arts, sciences and technology, ranging from Nobel Prize Winners to internationallyacclaimed designers — all pre-eminent in their field and whose work is shapingcontemporary culture. Following, please find an edited list from the Sputnik Library.