For each of the past eight years Mike and Kathy McCoy have invited design professionals from multiple disciplines to come together for a free-wheeling, open discussion over two and half days. There are no predetermined themes, no limits on topics, and every expectation that the content will be unvarnished.

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Presentations

Year 1: The Ethics of Cyborg Design
Year 2: The Everyday is out of reach
Year 3: Uncanny overlaps between Design and Contemporary Art
Year 4: Distributed models of design
Year 5: Should there be a Design Avant-garde?
Year 6: Postindustrial Design: code and metabolism
Year 7: What are the limits of the Citizen/Designer?
Year 8: Xtreme Local