#PUGSfest 2017: SPACE || April 22, 2017 || Taborspace
Our first annual #PUGSfest was so much fun, we can't wait until 2017. What a powerful gathering of the PUGS community! If you didn't make it, this page should give you a taste of what you missed.
#PUGSfest 2016: TIME || June 18th, 2016 || Taborspace
Intellectually curious? Socially adventurous? Topically indecisive?
PUGSfest is a learning opportunity just for you – a day full of taster workshops and talks from a dozen instructors on topics ranging from death to design to dining – for just $39.
PUGSfest is an opportunity to get to know some of the smartest people in Portland while playing with the theme of time.
Featured Sessions
Mysteries of Prehistory
Peter Michael Bauer || Founder, Rewild Portland
Equity: In an Age of Change, Can Philanthropy Catch Up?
Sharon Wade Ellis || Meyer Memorial Trust
Facing Death to Creep Toward Justice
Wendy Willis || Executive Director, Policy Consensus Initiative
And so many more!
When: Saturday, June 18
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Where: Taborspace
5441 SE Belmont St.
How much: $39
Speakers
DOUGLAS TSOI
How to teach, how to learn; the catalyst course
SHOULD WE LIVE FOREVER?
BETH SCHECHTER
BASICS OF THE DESIGN PROCESS
learning communities: imagining the future of education
PETER MICHAEL BAUER
Rewilding 101 + 201
Mysteries of Prehistory
SHARON Wade ELLIS
Special Guest: Meyer Memorial Trust
Equity: In an Age of Change, Can Philanthropy Catch Up?
WENDY WILLIS
Privacy: Law and Theory
Facing Death to Creep Toward SOCIAL Justice
JOHN DOYLE
PDX Architecture; Beauty + Aesthetics in Western Art
The Forensics of Portland Architecture Walking Tour
JON ROSS
Strange Fascination
David Bowie & The End of Time
JESSE FRIEDMAN
Colonialism + Cuisine
Columbus-ing the Table
JEFF RUBIN
Cascadia Earthquakes: Geology + Preparation
Cascadia vs. Portlandia
MELEA SEWARD
Special Guest: Board of Us
The Wanderclock: How to Design for Serendipity Using Time
JUSTIN BURI
Your rights as a renter
the evolution of portland's housing crisis
ARTURO MARTININI
The Importance of Puppets, Chocolate Tasting
The Millennial Attention Span, Explained
What’s the deal with all the time stuff?
Time. It’s an illusion, and yet it dictates the way that we divide our day and sell our labor. A natural occurrence and a human-made construct. We fight for it and we waste it. Time’s pervasiveness and invisibility make it ripe for investigation. So for our very first PUGSfest, we’ve decided to investigate!
How does PUGSfest work?
On June 18, a dozen speakers pitch their ideas -- 3 minutes each -- and you (as a participant) choose four one-hour sessions that you want to attend throughout the day.
“The connections between course material is what’s causing my intellectual growth, not the individual courses by themselves. It’s the ability to stack, play with, and mix seemingly disparate information that’s expanding me.”
