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Off to Pittsburgh

June 4, 2004 by Andrew Taylor

I’ll be traveling to Pittsburgh all next week (June 8 – 13) for the National Performing Arts Convention. During the massive, cross-disciplinary event, I’ll be co-leading (with Alberta Arthurs and Steven Tepper) a research team of 20 graduate students, deployed across all the convenings to observe, capture, and document the big ideas and common challenges that emerge throughout the conversations. In a bit of hubris, we’ll be coding our findings in real time, and reporting what we learn back to the convention before it ends.

As a result, I may or may not be posting to the weblog next week. If I have a brain cell left in my head, I’ll make an effort. Otherwise, I’ll see you in a week.

If you’re attending the Pittsburgh convention, be sure to flag me down. I’ll be wearing a goofy button with the research project name on it (I-DOC). Or you can recognize me from my lovely photo here.

Hope to see some of you at the ‘big show’.

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