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ATEC LLC Distinguished Speaker Lecture with John Maeda
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The Living Learning Communities have secured 20 tickets to the 2nd ATEC Distinguished Lecture of Spring 2015 featuring John Maeda, the "Steve Jobs of academia". ATEC LLC residents are welcome to attend this speaking engagement. Tickets are first come, first served. There are only 20 tickets available for this event. There will be 10 spots on the waitlist for tickets. In the event that an individual forfeits his or her ticket, you will be notified if you are next on the waitlist, and you will have 24 hours to either accept or deny the ticket. Tickets are exclusively for residents or PAs who are currently living in the ATEC LLC; 1 ticket per individual.
To redeem your event ticket, residents will need to meet LLC Coordinator Capri Mandella at the ATEC Plinth between 6:30-7:15pm on Wednesday, March 4th, prior to the event. Please present your EventBrite ticket in order to redeem your official event ticket. Any tickets not redeemed by 7:15pm will go to waitlisted individuals. For questions or concerns, please contact Living Learning at (972) 883-7422 or livinglearning@utdallas.edu.
For those guests who need special assistance, please contact Deborah Day at 972-883-6504 or email lectures@utdallas.edu. UT Dallas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university.
More about John Maeda...
JOHN MAEDA is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator, whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation. A leader who imagines how design can simplify technology and help leaders respond to new challenges in the era of social media, Maeda was named one of the “75 most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire. In 2014, he was named a member of the National Council on the Arts by President Obama.
In June 2008, Maeda became president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Maeda led the movement to transform STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to STEAM by adding art. Called the “Steve Jobs of academia” by Forbes, he believes art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century as science and technology did in the last century. Maeda announced his departure from RISD in December 2013, when he took on new roles as design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and chairman of eBay’s design advisory board.
Maeda previously served as associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab. He serves on the boards of Sonos, Quirky and Wieden+Kennedy, as well as on the Davos World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership. His books include The Laws of Simplicity, Creative Code and Redesigning Leadership, which he discusses on his Twitter feed at @johnmaeda, one of Time magazine’s 140 “Best Twitter Feeds” of 2012. Maeda received the AIGA Medal in 2010 and is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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