Heads up on the next Olio: It will be held on the 24th of September at the CCDC. More details soon as they are fleshed out!

I can only say that if the weather stays this nice (High Temperature: 77° F) we have a great summer in store! Starting off the season I present to you Olio 8. The next installment will be at the CCDC Cityspace (downtown mall) on Friday, June 25th, 8pm. More details will follow shortly, but in the meantime, check it out on Facebook.

Spots are available for presenters, so get in touch: email

Friday, April 23, 2010

Olio Edition 7 speakers (in presentation order):

Jim Richardson
Justin Walton
Kate Snider
David Hamilton – email
Lauren Hackney
Boris Starosta – starosta.com/3dshowcase/
Don Swofford – email
Lin Jia
Kate Mora

The 7th Edition of Olio kicks off Architecture Week 2010 on Friday April 23rd, 7pm at the CCDC! This edition will have a nice twist – the speakers have been challenged to address the concept of emergence. We’ll see where they take it.

Stay tuned for more details.

Check out the observe page for photos from the 6th Edition. You may find yourself there…

Thanks to everyone who came out and to the presenters! Cheers.

For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the last Olio, we had a repeat presenter to bring things full circle. The photographer Andy Franck, a presenter at the first event, returned with a slideshow with portraits of speakers from the past year. It definitely added a nice touch to a night celebrating the ongoing Olio project. Thanks Andy!

Check out the photos here: www.andyfranck.com/olio/

Thanks to everyone who came out to support Olio on the occasion of it’s first anniversary. It was a great night with good friends (and good beer). Thanks again to Wes for commandeering Zocalo using circuit boards and hot vinyl – i.e. the dj set was nice! Here’s to another good year of slides.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Olio Edition 6 speakers (in presentation order):

Aaron Fein – www.aaronfein.com
Pete Sandfort – www.sarisandtile.com
Erin Root – email, Mike Levy, Chase Sparling, Emily Miyares, Jana Vandergoot
Bill Hess – www.ideasonlegs.com
Damien Subit – email
Kakee Scott – designtolive.org
Vlad Gavrilovic – www.citiesthatwork.com, email
Andy Franck – www.andyfrank.com

Olio 6th Edition is this Friday. Join us for the after party at Zocalo where DJ Western Front will be providing the grooves to celebrate the one year anniversary of Olio. Hope to see you there!

The first video is the presentation made by Dan Zimmerman at the first Olio. The video was great but I was suffering from Murphy’s Law and didn’t get the sound working… Here it is in its full glory:

The next video was ‘beamed-in’ from Berlin (right!) at the 4th Edition. This is Bill Atwood’s presentation and congratulations to the CCDC on it’s 5 year anniversary:

Thanks to Dan Z, Bill Atwood, Mandy Burbage, & Ashley Cooper for these two!

A little more than a year ago I suggested the idea for Olio to my wife over dinner. She responded with loads of support and a small dose of realism; “Perhaps you could start small and hold it in our living room.” Neither of us imagined the hundred plus crowd that arrived at the first event last February… With that in mind I would like to announce the 6th Edition of Olio!

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