2007 David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design at Stanford

Consider This: the 2007 David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design is about to kick off at Stanford!

As usual, it is a pretty amazing roster of speakers, including Jan Chipchase, whose Future Perfect blog has been a mainstay of the metacool Cool Destinations blog roll for quite some time.  I had the great fortune to hang out with Jan at a beach party at TED earlier this year, and we had a (no surprise!) really interesting conversation.  Can't wait to hear him again.

I'd also like to issue a challenge for all of you with blogs or other means of spreading the word.  Over the years, attendance at the Liu Lectures has been less than one would expect given the quality of the speakers.  Which is a real pity, not just because the speakers are always amazing, but also because the series is a celebration of David Liu's love of designing things, and by showing up we pay respect. 

We can change that.  Let's embark on an experiment in creating infectious action.  Here's how:

1. If you have a blog or a website, please post something about the Liu lectures.  Even if you aren't located near Stanford, please do this, as the web knows no boundaries.
2. Then please send a trackback to this blog post so that I can keep a count of how this spreads
3. Ask your friends and readers of your blog post to do the same

Cool.  See you there!

Comments

[martin]

I use to hear the Entrepenneurial thought leaders seminar, hosted at Stanford too, in several podcast's. Do you know is there's a chance to make this lectures a podcast too?
Thank you in advance.

[Otto Driessen]

Mention TED and the Liu lectures in one breath and I immediately think of the TED videos I love watching. Is there any way the d.school could facilitate something similar? Also, I'd love to watch a Liu lecture live by logging in, participate in the Q&A, etc. Heck, I'd even pay for it!

Keep your metacool...

[Diego Rodriguez]

Hi Otto,

These lectures are actually sponsored and executed by the Design Division within the School of Engineering at Stanford. They're not part of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking (aka "the d.school").

That would be cool to see them as video podcasts, though!

[Nils]

Another vote for podcasts (not that you control that, I realize). I heard about this lecture series via Bob Sutton's post about your post, but it was after all the talks were over.

It is quite true that these lectures are not publicized well! Not even as well as the ETL lectures, I'd say. There's a Google group that announces them, but as far as I could tell, nothing else on the web.