It's... Postopolis! LA

[Image: Logo by Joe Alterio].

Postopolis! LA kicks off in less than 24 hours, and there are loads of updates.
First, the schedule:

Tuesday, March 31

5:00pm: Fritz Haeg, Artist and Writer
5:40: Patrick Keller, Architect and Principal, Fabric
6:20pm: Yo-Ichiro Hakomori, Architect and Principal, wHY Architecture
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Dwayne Oyler, Architect and Principal, Oyler Wu Collaborative
8:00: Michael Dear, Professor of Geography, USC
8:40: Jeffrey Inaba, Architect and Principal, Inaba Projects
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Postopolis! LA Welcome Remarks, Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture) and Bettina Korek (ForYourArt)
10:00: Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), David Basulto (Plataforma Arquitectura/Arch Daily), and Bryan Finoki (Subtopia)
10:20: Jace Clayton (mudd up!), Dan Hill (City of Sound), and Régine Debatty (we make money not art)


Wednesday, April 1

5:00pm: Mary-Ann Ray, Architect, Writer, and Principal, Studio Works Architects
5:40: David Gissen, Theorist and Historian, CCA
6:20: Whitney Sander, Architect and Principal, Sander Architects
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Sharon Johnston & Mark Lee, Architects and Principals, Johnston MarkLee
8:00: Robert Miles Kemp, Designer and Principal, Variate Labs
8:40: Freya Bardell & Brian Howe, Principals, Greenmeme
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Ted Kane, Architect and Writer
10:20: Stephanie Smith, Founder, Ecoshack


Thursday, April 2

5:00pm: Austin Kelly, Principal, XTEN Architecture
5:40: Orhan Ayyüce, Architect, Blogger, and Senior Editor, Archinect
6:20: Ava Bromberg, Just Space(s)
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Ben Cerveny, Principal, AFK Lab
8:00: Steve Roden, Musician and Artist
8:40: Gary Dauphin, Writer and Critic
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues, Architects and Founding Partners, Ball-Nogues Studio
10:20: Mike the Poet, Poet and Writer


Friday, April 3

5:00pm: Michael Downing, Deputy Chief of Counter Terrorism, LAPD
5:40: Bryan Boyer, Organizer, Helsinki Design Lab 2010
6:20: Ari Kletzky, Founder, Islands of LA
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Eric Rodenbeck, Founder, Stamen Design
8:00: Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation
8:40: Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic, Los Angeles Times
9:20: BREAK
9:40: David Burns, Austin Young, and Matias Viegener, Founders, fallen fruit
10:20: Ken Ehrlich, Artist and Writer


Saturday, April 4

4:20pm: Benjamin Bratton, Architect and Theorist
5:00: Christian Moeller, Artist
5:40: Interactive Arts Panel: Sean Dockray, Dan Goods, Daniel Rehn, and Jay Yan
6:20: Media Panel: Matt Chaban (Architect's Newspaper), Dakota Smith (Curbed LA), Alissa Walker, Greg J. Smith, and Christina Ulke (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest)
7:00: Photography Panel: Catherine Ledner, Misha Gravenor, Dave Lauridsen, Tom Fowlks, and Gregg Segal
7:20: BREAK
8:00: Archinect School Blogger Panel: Moderated by Paul Petrunia, Founder, Archinect
8:40: Magazines Panel: Sam Grawe, Editor-in-Chief, Dwell, and Zach Frechette, Editor-in-Chief GOOD
9:20: Closing Party

Second, some slight changes:
The venue, as many of you will already know, is the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles – but after 9:00pm each night, we will begin moving down from the roof deck to a conference room on the 2nd floor. To get there, just go up the escalator in the lobby... and it's right there. Note that that is only after 9pm.
On Friday and Saturday, meanwhile, after 7pm, the Standard will begin charging $20 admission to their roof deck – leading to the unfortunate need to recommend that if you are coming on Friday or Saturday, then either show up before 7pm to avoid the $20 charge or after 9pm, to join us for free on the second floor (up the escalator on the right).
There isn't a single part of me that thinks these restrictions improve the event, but, at the end of the day, they don't affect the quality of the speakers or what we expect from a second Postopolis! – so, despite these slight complications, I hope you'll still make it out to see what's going on.
Finally, consider bringing a picnic blanket for the rooftop events, simply as something to sit on – and bring a coat! Or someone to hug. It could definitely get a bit chilly up there.
For those of you not in Los Angeles, or simply hoping to watch things from home, a live web feed of the proceedings will also be available through the Storefront website and ForYourArt. And we've now got a public Flickr pool through which we can all share images of the event.
Reminders and such like will be coming up as things proceed! Hope to see many of you soon.