GRAVITY FREE: 2008
“THE YEAR OF DANGEROUS MINDS”
May 12-14 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Hal Griffith: How'd they get you to stay?
Louanne: They gave me candy and called me their light.
Hal Griffith: That'll do it.
“Dangerous Minds” (1995)
The conference theme for 2008 was “The Year of Dangerous Minds”, celebrating creative risk-taking. It explored the boldness
of larger-than-life revolutionaries who redraw the boundaries with their own personal line in the sand and whose shock waves
often reverberate well beyond their own disciplines.
As always, the GRAVITY FREE speaker list included a diverse mix of architects, product designers, urban planners, innovation
strategists, experience designers, screen writers, graphic designers, authors, aeronautical designers, scientists, automotive
designers, retail designers, and visionaries of every stripe. They all share a cheeky disregard for conventional opinion and
status quo. Their uncompromising passion for what they believe makes them, in a word, dangerous.
This year, the iconic Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was the site of the entire conference. What better surroundings
than the richly experiential exhibits that have fired millions of imaginations?
Registration for GRAVITY FREE: 2009 is now open.
GRAVITY FREE: COME CURIOUS. LEAVE INSPIRED.