It doesn't take much to get theater seating right. Face chairs correctly; set them long; flare aisles off-center front at 45°; and keep unbroken rows short.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/07/theater-seating

#seating #EventDesign #events #eventprofs

Meeting planners: Don't let your attendees be tortured by nights of the Round Table! Keep your rounds small, or eliminate them completely.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/11/tortured-by-nights-of-the-round-table

#meetings #EventDesign #RoomSet #seating #RoundTables #eventprofs

The architecture of assembly influences what happens at events. Room sets affect the quality of democracy, sharing, & equality participants experience.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/04/architecture-assembly

#meetings #EventDesign #architecture #seating #eventprofs

“Mr. Hackett turned the corner and saw, in the failing light, at some distance, his seat”*…

Michael Wolf is an award-winning and widely-exhibited photographer famous for his documentation of big city architecture and life around the world, but especially in Hong Kong… Consider this series…

Much more at “Informal Seating Arrangements in Hong Kong” and more of Wolf’s other wonderful work on his site.

* Samuel Beckett, Watt

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As we grab a chair, we might keep our focus on Hong Kong: it was on this date in 1978 that Snake in Eagle’s Shadow was released. A  Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film, it was the debut of director  Yuen Woo-ping, and the breakthrough outing for its stars,  Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee, and (Yuen Woo-ping’s real life father) Yuen Siu-tien.

The film is the story of Chien Fu (Jackie Chan), an orphan who is bullied at a kung fu school, but meets an old beggar, Pai Cheng-tien (Yuen Siu-tien), who becomes his sifu (teacher) and trains him in Snake Kung Fu. The film established Chan’s slapstick kung fu comedy style– which he further developed with Drunken Master, also directed by Yuen Woo-ping, released in the same year, and also starring Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee and Yuen Siu-tien. Snake in Eagle’s Shadow (and Drunken Master) established the basic plot structure used in many, many martial arts films internationally since then.

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Here's how 1984 turned out like 1884. And what we can do with our learning environments so that 2084 won't look like 1984.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2010/10/how-1984-turned-out-like-1884

#1984 #classroom #furniture #learning #seating

Can we make better conference chairs? Steelcase is trying with its Node chairs, which can move and swivel.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/06/better-cconference-chairs

#meetings #EventDesign #seating #chairs #Steelcase #participation #Node #events #eventprofs