Dott 07 and Northumbria University School of Design Present

25-26 October 2007
NewcastleGateshead

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  • Janet Abrams
  • Andy Altmann
  • John Bates
  • Durrell Bishop
  • Christoph Boninger
  • Tim Brown
  • Allan Chochinov
  • Matthew Collings
  • Gillian Crampton-Smith
  • Chris Downs
  • Richard Eisermann
  • Ignacio Germade
  • Clive Grinyer
  • Joe Heapy
  • Peter Higgins
  • Frans Johansson
  • Heather Martin
  • Nico Macdonald
  • Lynne Maher
  • Sarah Maynard
  • Jeremy Myerson
  • Vicky Richardson
  • Jonathan Sands
  • Tom Savigar
  • Peter Saville
  • Richard Seymour
  • Richard Shed
  • Ed Silk
  • Daljit Singh
  • Stefan Stern
  • Deyan Sudjic
  • John Thackara
  • Austin Williams
  • James Woudhuysen

Austin Williams

Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities Project and author of 'Shortcuts: Essential guides for building designers'. An architect and project manager by profession, he is also a regular columnist with the Daily Telegraph, an architecture critic with BBC London's Robert Elms' Show and the originator and organiser of the Bookshop Barnies. He was the co-coordinator of the Future of Community Festival at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2006.

In 2005, he convened the Future of London Festival at the Museum of London; and the FutureCities: Future Visions conference at the LSE in 2003. Previously employed as the Technical Editor of the Architects' Journal, he has also written for a range of publications, including: The Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Educational Supplement; Top Gear, Reason, New Humanist, Blueprint, Building Design, spiked-online, and MJ. He is author of the forthcoming book entitled, 'Enemies of Progress'.