Vision 67 - Survival and Growth 19-21 Oct. 1967, at the Loeb Student Center, NYU A number of design students traveled to New York City to attend the Vision 67 Design conference at New York University. NYU is just south of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Vision '67 speakers and presenters: • Isaac L. Auerbach, I.T. pioneer, Auerbach Corp. Philadelphia • Max Bense, Prof. Sci. Theory, Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart • Kurt Blum, creator education & tech. films, Switzerland • Warren M. Brodey, psychiatrist, sociologist, MIT • Will Burtin, (conference chairman) designer, educator, NYC • Eugenio Carmi, painter, graphic designer, sculptor, Genoa • Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, essayist, France • Gilbert Cohen-Sat, film critic, audiovisual specialist, Paris • Furio Colombo, sociologist, author, TV doc. producer, Rome • Gillo Dorfles, art historian, writer, critic, educator, Milan • Umberto Eco, Prof. of Visual Communications, Florence • R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, engineer, inventor, SIU • Arthur Funkhauser, holography-laser specialist • Ken Garland, graphic designer, author, London, UK • Vittorio Gregotti, architect, writer, critic, teacher, Milan • Alan Gussow, painter, conservationist, New York • August Heckscher, Administrator Cultural Affairs, NYC • James M. Hester, President, NYU • Bruce MacKenzie, linguist, editor, data theorist, IBM • Haig Manoogian, experimental film maker, presenter • Selby Mvusi, painter, lecturer, U. East Africa, Nairobi • Gordon Pask, Research director, System Research, UK • S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary, Smithsonian; Chairman, FCAH • Herbert Roan, designer and educator, SIU • Willem Sandberg, graphic designer, museum director • Tony Schwarz, sound designer, experimentalist, NYC • Charles A. Siepmann, Chair Emeritus, NYU • Aubrey Singer, Head of Features Group, BBC, London • Herbert Spencer, typographer, Sr. Fellow, Royal College of Art • Jean Tinguely, creator of philosophical machines, France • Jerzy Toeplitz, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences • Victor Vasarely, painter, inventor, Op-Art theorist, France Getting to Vision 67 A story by Jim Nugent about the car trip from Carbondale, Illinois to New York City. Click here to go to the story, “Getting to Vision 67.”