Fri. Sept. 21

3:00pm-5:30pm Arrival, conference registration
5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner in Arcosanti Cafe
7:45pm-8:00pm Welcome
8:00pm-8:15pm Visual Prelude of Paolo Soleri and Jon Jerde's Graphics
8:00pm-10:15pm

Co-Keynote Address: Visceral Reality - Building Third Millennium Cities
Paolo Soleri - Architect & Philosopher. Founder of Arcosanti, inventor of Arcology
Jon Jerde - Architect. Founder & Chairman of Jerde Partnership International

Saturday Sept. 22

9:00-9:30am

Conference Overview, Introduction of Sponsors
Paolo Soleri, Jon Jerde, Ron McCoy (Architect. Director, ASU College of Architecture and Environmental Design)

9:45-11:30am

Emergence of a New Eco-Science: Restoring Nature & Community
Janine Benyus: Science writer. Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature."
Joe Firmage : Co-founder of International Spece Sciences Organization and Motion Sciences Organization
Jim Fournier: Architect & Industrial Ecologist. Founder Gaia-Mind Project & Planetworks.
Michael Tobias, Ph.D. - Eco-researcher. Author of 25 books and producer of 100 films.

11:45am-1:15pm Lunch - Arcosanti Cafe

1:30-3:15pm

Green Development: Integrating Habitat, Virtuality, and Nature
William D. Browning - Director, Rocky Mountain Institute Green Development Services
John Picard - Eco-visionary, Planner & Developer. Pres. of E2 Designs, Inc.
Stephanie Smith - Architectural & design strategist, Founder of 'Architecture NOW'

3:45-5:30pm

Urban Laboratories: Reinventing Community
Esperide Ananas - Director of International Affairs, Federation of Damanhur, Italy
Bruce Damer - Pres. Digital Space, Inc., leading innovator of avatar cyber-communities
Stessa Thompson - Eco-communities Networker, Founder of GlobalRetreats.com

5:45-7:30pm Dinner in Arcosanti Cafe

7:45-9:45pm

Third Millennium Habitats: Past, Present and Future >From Ancient Egypt to Transmodern Cities
Mark Lehner, Ph.D. - Egyptologist. Harvard & Univ. of Chicago Oriental Institute
Tom Jaggers - VP of Jerde Partnership International
Paolo Soleri - Architect & Philosopher. Founder of Arcosanti, inventor of Arcology

10:00-10:30pm Break

10:30pm-1:00am

Evening Entertainment
Radio-V Music and Dance Party. Including Italian astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi, Ph.D., playing her remarkable radio-telescope recordings of ³star music².

Sunday, Sept. 23

7:00-8:45am Breakfast in Arcosanti Cafe

9:00-10:45am

Transmodern Culture: Cultivating the Values of a New Civilization
Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. - Director of Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
Marilyn Ferguson - Futurist. Author of "The Aquarian Conspiracy"
Paul Ray, Ph.D. - Sociologist, Urban Planner. Author of "The Cultural Creatives"
Fiorella Terenzi, Ph.D. - Astrophysicist & musician. Author of "Heavenly Knowledge"

11:00am-12:45pm

Trends in Third Millennium Habitats
Elizabeth Burdock - Director of PATH, Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (www.pathnet.org), U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Terry Goddard - Former mayor of Phoenix, AZ. Director of Phoenix Federal HUD office
Heather Kurze - Architect, Dean of School of Architecture and Design, Woodbury University
Nan Elin, Ph.D. - City Planner, Anthropologist. Professor, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University.

12:45pm Coffee & Snack Break

1:00-3:00pm Breakout Discussion Groups

Biomimicry & Green Development
Janine Benyus - Science writer. Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Innovations in Green Energy Technologies
John Picard - Eco-visionary, Planner & Developer. Pres. of E2 Designs, Inc.
Jim Fournier - Architect & Industrial Ecologist. Founder 'Gaia-Mind' Project, and the Planetworks Conference
John Graham - Scientist/inventor, Founder of Broadware Technologies

Transforming Cities Step by Step: Projects Making a Difference
Martin Samuels - Founder of Green City Development, Inc., Oakland
Mark Kasky - Director, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Government Funding Opportunities for Green Development
Elizabeth Burdock - Dir. of HUD/PATH, Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
Terry Goddard - Former Mayor of Phoenix, AZ. Director of Phoenix Federal HUD office

Damanhur: An Experimental Green Community in the Italian Alps
Esperide Ananas - Director of International Affairs, Federation of Damanhur, Italy

Avatar-based Cyber Communities
Bruce Damer - Pres. Digital Space, Inc., leading innovator of avatar cyber-communities

Living at Arcosanti: A Conversation with Arcosanti Residents
Karen Taylor, David & Nadia Tolas, Jeff Buderer

3:15-4:15pm Conference Wrap-up - Looking Ahead