TRI-PARTNERS FINAL "DESIGN DIPLOMACY" UPDATE:      August 15, 2000

With just three weeks left prior to receiving Design Diplomacy to Copenhagen, we are attending to all last minute details to ensure your stay and experience here is rewarding.

An intense cooperation among speakers and moderators for each conference session is well underway, so that the result is a cohesive, powerful learning and sharing experience for everyone in attendance.

We would encourage you, whether you are reading this as a conference participant, moderator, or speaker, to visit The VELUX Group's Design Diplomacy Chatroom.  Do pose questions, express challenges experienced on a local or national level, and provoke your colleagues to thought in preparation for the issues which will be presented during the conference sessions.  By putting this chatroom up at an early stage, VELUX has provided a pre-conference forum where everyone can communicate and get their Design Diplomacy engines revving....providing our conference speakers with insite regarding their September audience's expectations and thoughts.

Take advantage of this !  Go to : www.VELUX.com/architectLounge/DDC.htm  

This month's update features :

…          Important details once you have arrived in Denmark.....

about beginning times/addresses/transportation for the Welcome Reception and

Opening Conference Session; about distribution of conference materials ; about when and where assistance is available throughout the conference. 

…         Interview of Ambassador Richard N. Swett in Berlingske Tidende Newspaper (front page of Culture Section, July 18^th, 2000) discussing the impact of architecture upon society, and promoting the Design Diplomacy conference

…         Your chance to order Danish Design Centre favorites made available specifically to our Design Diplomacy group. 

Supply is limited, thus, only orders placed by September 1^st can be guaranteed to be waiting for your payment/pick-up on the evening of September 7^th, when we tour the Danish Design Centre.

…         If you are planning to do a bit of self-directed touring of Denmark prior to or after the conference, visit that page here at our site entitled Self-Directed Tours for tour tips- 

…         For those interested in a copy of New York Times interview with Rem Koolhas, please email  your request and we will send it as a word document. (We never received permission to link to it at NYTís site.)

Feel free to email (pwinther@tri-partners.com) or to telephone (513)588-2804 if you have questions regarding any aspect of the conference or your stay in Copenhagen. 

Regards,

Pamla Winther

Director TRI.PARTNERS