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Early Bird Registration through September 14.
Reserved room block available at The Silversmith Hotel & Suites through October 14.
Room block is first come, first served.
Note: This year is a special Monday/Tuesday conference to better accommodate attendees staying on for Greenbuild 2010 later in the week.

DESIGN IN ACTION: INSPIRING SOLUTIONS FOR PEOPLE AND CITIES
ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS/
ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN EDUCATION NETWORK
2010 CONFERENCE

Join us for a two-day conference of inspiring ideas and practical solutions. We're convening a terrific network of industry leaders and visionary thinkers, including delegates from large and small architecture centers and allied organizations. Alongside our own, we'll hear from voices outside the field whose work is dissolving traditional boundaries of architecture and design and nonprofit practice.

Guests include:

• Ty Goddard, Director, British Council for School Environments
  As governments race to press the reset button, few can narrate the landscape better than Ty. Situating design and design thinking into the considerations of professionals in other fields lies at the core of his leadership strategies for BCSE and the aim to catalyze social change through design.
• John Tolva, Director of Citizenship & Technology, IBM Corporation
  Leader of the fascinating City Forward project, John's work continues to promote new intersections between people, technology, and cities - a place where digital tools demand and democratize process.
• Jason Schupbach, Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts (invited)
  Place-making and design have found a formidable team at the NEA these days. This review of the NEA's current efforts will include new challenges for partnering with today's business community.
• Ned Cramer, Editor-in-Chief, Architect Magazine
  An overview of the latest national and international trends in architecture and design.
• Bridget Sawyers, Chief Executive, Architecture Centre Network
  Sawyers is one of the most talented practitioners in our field today. She's also a tireless thinker, as many of us came to learn through her landmark publication, "The Value of Architecture Centres." Bridget is ready to pose some new ideas that each of our organizations must accept.

AAO and A+DEN Breakout Sessions include:

• From the Inside: What Schools Really Need from Your Design Education Program
• Cultural Tourism and Audience Trends
• Architecture Goes Social (New Ideas in New Media)
• Design Issues Affecting Our Nation: Fit City and Beyond
• Fundraising Outlook and Sector Analysis
• Architecture Tours at Every Scale
• Public Programming Today: Between Knowledge-Production and Info-tainment
• Progressive Exhibitions

SPECIAL SESSION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
The Shrinking City
Tuesday, November 16, 6:00 pm
$10 AAO Members
$15 Non-Members

Reed Kroloff, architect and Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, moderates a panel discussion on the work and politics of "right-sizing" struggling cities. Conversation will address a number of communities battling decline, eventually winding up at the largest project of them all: Detroit, Michigan. Multiple insights will be sought, including those of urban planner Toni Griffin, a top consultant to government officials in Detroit.

PRE-CONFERENCE BOOT CAMP
Sunday November 14, 1:00pm
$60 AAO Members
$75 Non-Members

Don't miss this exclusive four-hour workshop led by a distinguished panel of AAO Board Members. Designed specifically for start-ups and emerging architecture centers, attendance will be capped to accommodate lengthy question-and-answer and the opportunity to understand the circumstances of each attendee's new enterprise.

Topics to be covered include:

• Generating a Needs Assessment of Your Local Cultural Community
• Financing & Development (includes arrangements with AIA components)
• Talking Architecture with the General Public
• Fundamentals for Building an Architecture Tour Program
• Survey of Organizations (What do successful centers look like? What purposes do they serve?)
• Seeking Partnerships to Boost Audience

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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES
Early Bird rates in effect through September 14.
The content presented during both days of the conference will apply to design educators and architecture center professionals alike. If selecting attendance for only one day, consider that additional sessions for A+DEN will be scheduled on Tuesday.

One-Day Pass, Monday, November 15, 2010
$100 AAO Member
$115 Non-Member
[Note: Effective on September 15, One-Day Registration rates will be reset at $120/AAO Member and $135/Non-Member.]

One-Day Pass, Tuesday, November 16, 2010
$100 AAO Member
$115 Non-Member
[Note: Effective on September 15, One-Day Registration rates will be reset at $120/AAO Member and $135/Non-Member.]

Two-Day Pass, Monday and Tuesday, November 15-16, 2010
$160 AAO Member
$195 Non-Member
[Note: Effective on September 15, Two-Day Registration rates will be reset at $200/AAO Member and $235/Non-Member.]

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Helpful tips for planning your trip. Includes information about AAO's reserved room block at The Silversmith Hotel & Suites (expires October 14).

Arriving early? Staying late? Conference attendees receive two free passes to Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tours. Find more at www.architecture.org/toursearch. Insert a specific date or a date range at the prompt and see all available tours. To reserve your spot on a tour, please contact the AAO offices at 312.922.3432 x260 or aao@architecture.org.