March 4-5, 2016Duluth, Minnesota

28 years ago, the Lake Superior Design Retreat began. An interdisciplinary event exploring ideas that push boundaries. An event that explores the corners of design. An event that

dazzles you with the unexpected. So plan to come out of your winter hibernation and join us on the edge

of the frozen Lake to experience theLake Superior Design Retreat 28.

REGISTRATION FEEThe registration fee covers the two-day program, Friday dinner, and Saturday breakfast. Lodging is extra. The optional Saturday tour is an additional $25 per person and includes a soup and sandwich buffet lunch, transportation, and admission. The optional 3-D Font Design workshop is an additional $15 charge per person and also includes a soup and sandwich buffet lunch and workshop materials. Others may sign up for the soup and sandwich buffet lunch for an additional $10 per person.

$210 Regular Registration$100 Spouse/Significant Other (limit one per each Regular Registration, please) $100 Children over 12 years$100 Students$25 pp Tour (includes lunch, bus, and admission)$15 pp Workshop (includes lunch and materials)$10 pp Saturday lunch (soup and sandwich buffet)

CHILDRENChildren 12* and older are welcome to register and attend the entire design retreat weekend. Children under 12 years old are invited to join us for meals (see Additional Meal Costs). * Please respect our request to refrain from bringing children under 12 years of age into the auditorium during retreat lectures.

ADDITIONAL MEALS COSTSContact Deanna Christiansen atChristiansen@aia-mn.orgto order Friday dinner and/or Saturday breakfast for guests not registered for the Retreat:

Friday dinner: $35 per personSaturday breakfast: $15 per person

LODGINGWe have reserved rooms at Fitger’s Inn at a special rate if booked by February 15, 2016. Mention “AIA Minnesota Lake Superior Design Retreat” when you call.

Fitger’s Inn (888) 348-4377 (FITGERS) $119.99 Cityside$124.99 Lakeside$144.99 Suites

Visit duluthbandb.com for B&B options. Contact Deanna Christiansen or call 1.800.4.DULUTH for other lodging suggestions.

CONTINUING EDUCATIONAIA Minnesota is a registered provider with the AIA Continuing Education System. We anticipate up to 5.5 Learning Unit/Hourswill be approved for the 2016Lake Superior Design Retreat.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

Noon Check-in

1:00 Welcome and Introductions

1:15 Interlude: Bridgman Packer

1:30 Erin McKean

3:15 Interlude: Bridgman Packer

3:30 Charles Yust

6:00 Bus leaves for Dinner

7:30 Dinner

9:00 Bus returns to Fitgers

SATURDAY, MARCH 5

7:45 Breakfast

9:00 Interlude: Bridgman Packer

9:15 Carolyn Porter

10:45 Interlude: Bridgman Packer

11:00 Len Brackett

12:15 Optional Lunch

1:30 Optional Tour: Historic Fairlawn Mansion

1:30 Optional Workshop: 3-Dimensional Font Design

1:30 Optional Films Beauty is Embarrassing (88 minutes) and Minka (15 minutes)

3:45 Interlude: Bridgman Packer

4:00 Bob Borson

5:30 Wrap-Up

6:00 Closing Reception

SPEAKERS

LSDR INTERLUDES

Art Bridgman and Myrna PackerBridgman Packer Dancehttp://www.bridgmanpacker.org

Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer are Guggenheim Fellows, collaborators in performance and choreography, and Artis-tic Directors of Bridgman|Packer Dance. They have toured nationally and internationally and are known for their integration of live performance and video technology. With slides and video clips from their performances, they offer a look into their creative process and choreographic intent, describing the history and development of their unique concept of Video Partnering and demonstrating their use of green screen technology, Final Cut Pro, and live camera stage set-up.

Inside Look at a Creative ProcessThrough five, separate, 10-minute presentations, Art and Myrna will share with the audience:

• How the creative process can develop from the first impulses into fully realized performance works

• How live performance can be integrated with video technology on stage

• How green screen technology works• How time, perspective, and perception can be

challenged and altered on stage for a living

Photo: Tyler Silver

Photo: Kelly Goettesman

LSDR PRESENTATION

Friday 1:30Erin McKeanhttps://wordnik.com

Erin McKean is the founder of the newly-not-for-profit Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. Before founding Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Her goal is to make every word in the English language “lookupable” – including the 52% of unique English words that aren’t currently in any dictionary. Erin is the author of three Weird and Wonderful Words books, the best-selling novel The Secret Lives of Dresses, and (most recently) The Hundred Dresses, a field guide to dresses. She’s written regular columns for The Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, PAPER, Foreign Affairs, and Sew News. She’s served as an advisor to the American National Corpus, the journal American Speech, the Wikimedia Foundation, and serves on the KPCB Design Council. She blogs at dressaday.com and tweets as @emckean. When you meet her, please tell her your favorite word.

All the Words: How Can We Describe The English Language?

Most people are surprised to learn that as many as half of the existing words of English aren’t represented in traditional dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary.

With the advent of the internet and data-mining and machine-learning technologies, we can start giving every word a chance to be ‘lookupable’! Erin will share what Wordnik has learned in its quest to include every word of English in the dictionary, and show how best to invent new words to get them used by a large number of English speakers.

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LSDR PRESENTATION

Friday 3:30Charles Yusthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesyust

Principal Design Technologist at frogdesign, Charles Yust focuses on developing interactive interfaces at various scales, from installations in spatial environments and large-scale, multi-touch tables, to mobile and online platforms.

Postcard from the Digital Frontier: Building Experiences at the Intersection of Technology and Design

Charles Yust will share his personal story, including inspirations, past work, and the methodologies employed at frog design to implement human-centered design for the future. For five years Charles also worked at a company in Manhattan called Unified Field Inc. building interactive installations for commercial and institutional clients. This experience will enable him to speak to working with architects and designers on interactive spatial environments.

The mission at frog design is to advance the human experience through design using a human-centered design approach. They are often asked to design, test and build scenarios for future applications, markets, and technologies. Charles will talk about frog’s methodologies and strategies for prototyping solutions. frog also values multi-talented and hybrid employees with divergent expertise, and believe their perspectives enhance solving problems and uncovering opportunities in unique ways.

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LSDR PRESENTATION

Saturday 9:15Carolyn Porterhttps://www.behance.net/gallery/P22-Marcel-Script-Pro-font/14059079

Carolyn Porter is a graphic designer and type designer from St. Paul, Minnesota. Inspired by beautiful script handwriting on letters she found in an antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota, Carolyn designed the font P22 Marcel. Released in 2014, the font has garnered five awards, including the prestigious Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Director’s Club.

After having the handwritten letters she found translated, Carolyn learned they had been written by Marcel Heuzé, a French citizen conscripted to work in a German labor camp during World War II. With little more to go on than a name and an address in France, she spent a year searching for information on Marcel’s fate.

Carolyn will share more about her research and what she learned as she developed the P22 Marcel font. She will explain the historic significance of source material used in the design of font P22 Marcel, including an overview of Service du Travail Obligatoire during World War II. She will reinforce the value of being curious as a creative professional.

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LSDR PRESENTATION

Saturday 11:00Len Bracketthttp://www.eastwindinc.com/about.html

Len Brackett, head of East Wind, spent seven years in Japan, five of them training as a temple carpenter apprentice in Kyoto. Temple carpentry, along with tea house carpentry, is the pinnacle of the architectural woodworking tradition in Japan. Upon his return to America in 1976, he began a 32-year career of adapting traditional Japanese houses for American clients.

East Wind (Higashi Kaze), Inc. designs and builds three kinds of houses: the traditional classic Japanese house; the westernized version of that house, intended for furniture; and the westernized hybrid combining traditional and conventional construction techniques.

The architectural forms found in Japan are essentially pure structure. Posts and beams supporting the roof and protecting and sheltering the occupants of the house are meticulously joined and finished without molding or applied trims. Most structural components of the house are also the finish elements as well, so precise joinery and great care in assembly are necessary.

LSDR PRESENTATION

Saturday 4:00Bob Borson, AIAhttp://www.lifeofanarchitect.com

Bob Borson, AIA, LEED AP, is the sole contributor of one of the most read blogs about architecture, “Life of an Architect”. A Dallas, Texas architect, Bob’s weekly observations and advice on the profession are composed with wit, playfulness, mus-ings (both deep and otherwise), and just the right amount of self-deprecation. He has bridged the gap and engaged multiple generations of architects and architectural enthusiasts by shar-ing his personal experiences, professional practice tips, and anecdotes on what it’s like to work with and be an architect. Bob was the recipient of a 2009 AIA Dallas’ Young Architect of the Year award, and received a 2015 Texas Society of Architects Honor Award. In his LSDR presentation, Architectural Blogging - The Good, The Bad, and the Crazy, Bob will give us his take on what it means to practice architecture in the age of digital social media.

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Friday evening we’ll venture out from Fitger’s to the Karpeles Manuscript Museum for dinner.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums is the world’s largest private holding of important original manuscripts and documents. The building in Duluth was built in 1912 as a Christian Scientist Church. The structure is a beautiful building with a large main floor exhibit hall. As the ceiling is high, the acoustics are excellent and the building is very suitable for musical concerts and other programs.

We’ll gather at 6:00 to mix and mingle and tour the building, including the cupola from where, apparently, a rainbow constantly flows. Myth, or reality? We shall see.http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/dulfrm.html

FRIDAY EVENING

Dinner is catered by the Duluth Grill. Fresh, local, homemade comfort food.http://www.duluthgrill.com

A cash bar will be available throughout the evening. Wine will be served with dinner.

Dinner details coming soon!

Karpeles Manuscript Museum Dinner

YOUR CHOICE: Tour, Workshop, Film, or On Your Own

FILMSBeauty is EmbarrassingBegins at 1:30 in the Spirit of the North Theater88 minutes. The film is free.$10 pp additional for optional soup and sandwich buffet.

Beauty Is Embarrassing is a funny, irreverent, joyful and inspiring documentary featuring the life and current times of one of America’s most important artists, Wayne White. Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2040281/

Minka Begins at 3:00 in the Spirit of the North Theater15 minutes. The film is free.

This story begins when Associated Press foreign correspondent John Roderick became the unlikely owner of an enormous, rundown farmhouse, or “minka.” Working with a young university student named Yoshihiro Takishita, Roderick had the massive timber house transported from the Japanese Alps to the Tokyo suburb of Kamakura. It defined both their lives: for Roderick, it was the backdrop for a remarkable career as a journalist covering China in the Mao era. For Takishita, it inspired a life spent collecting and rebuilding similar houses.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/travel/minka-a-farmhouse-in-japan.html?_r=0

ON YOUR OWNHave a leisurely lunch. Shop. Walk the lake to Canal Park.Nap. Get a massage.Get a cup of coffee. Visit with friends.Get a book and read. Get a sketchpad and draw. Get a journal and write.Your choice. Enjoy!

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

TOUR Fairlawn Mansion$25 pp, includes lunch, bus, and admission12:15 Soup and sandwich buffet1:30 Bus leaves Fitger’sLimited to the first 40 registrants

One of America’s Castles, the 3-floor mansion was built in 1890 by lumber baron, mining baron, and Mayor Martin

Pattison. The Queen Anne Victorian house, featuring a four-story turret complete with widow’s watch overlooking the bay, is a unique and well recognized landmark in the city of Superior, Wisconsin.

Fairlawn’s first floor is restored to the elegance and prosperity of Superior’s early boomtown days. The home also served as a children’s home for 42 years for an estimated 2,000 children.

WORKSHOP3-Dimensional Font Design with Carolyn PorterBegins at 1:30 in the August Fitger Room$15 pp, includes soup and sandwich buffet and workshop materialsLimited to the first 40 registrants.

Explore the intricacies of font design in a 3-dimensional context. Workshop attendees will undertake the task of creating an alphabet that stands up. An opportunity to mind your P’s and Q’s (while, of course, minding your p’s and q’s).

REGISTRATION

Name

Spouse/Significant Other

Firm Name

Address

City, State, Zip

Phone

Email

Regular Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $210 x _____ = $

Spouse/Significant Other (limit one for each Regular Registration) . . . . . $100 x 1 = $

Children over 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100 x _____ = $

Full time students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100 x _____ = $ Vegetarian mealsWould you like to request the vegetarian dinner for Friday? oYES — for how many?

Do you have other dietary restrictions? Please explain.

Optional Fairlawn Mansion Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25 x _____ = $Includes Saturday lunch & transportation

Optional 3-D Font Design Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15 x _____ = $Includes lunch & materials

Saturday lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10 x _____ = $Optional soup and sandwich lunch

TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $

Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. Make checks payable to AIA Minnesota.Checks must accompany registration form.

Check one:o Visa o MC o Discover o AmEx o Check

account number

expiration date

Security code / CVV / CI

QUESTIONS?Contact Deanna Christiansen at christiansen@aia-mn.org or (612) 338-6763

REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.AIA-MN.ORG/LSDR OR SEND THIS FORM TO: Lake Superior Design Retreat AIA Minnesota 275 Market Street, Suite 54 Minneapolis, MN 55405 Fax (612) 338-7981 (Credit Cards Only)

2016 SPONSORS

THANK YOU

CF Design

First Supply LLC / Kohler Signature Store

Marvin Windows and Doors

Gausman & Moore

Lake State Lumber, Inc.

Leo A Daly

Dennis J. Linder & Associates

Loewen Windows / Heritage Window and Door

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