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Arc Worldwide, Leo Burnett Group report

Financial Times World Retailing Report

IBM The Performance Manager

WPP - Retailing in the Recession

Global Retail 250 Website Index Report

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IBM Smarter Consumer Report

WGSN Think Tank Consumer Forecast: Consumer Attitudes 2011

WGSN What’s In Store Visual Merchandising Analysis: VM Overview March 2010

2010 Speakers

Eric Kuhne

Founder Eric Kuhne and Associates

Architect Eric R Kuhne is the owner and founder of CIVICARTS: an international research and design practice dedicated to rediscovering the pageantry of civic life. Passionate about urban form, Eric believes that enlightened retail has the power to sustain the robust vitality of civic life, and that the city has been, and always will be, the ultimate ‘Marketplace of Ideas’.

With the help of over 30 colleagues, his work spans 4 continents, creating landmark projects for each nation, including the hugely successful Bluewater shopping centre near London. Wherever it builds, CIVICARTS integrates architecture, landscape, urban, interior and industrial design to create an aesthetic that celebrates the cultural ethos of its hosts, borrowing from the archaeology, local history, behavioural economics, folk tales, myths and legends of each civilization. His work continues to expand into new markets and new cultures, establishing alternative design solutions that restore the story-telling qualities of architecture.

Having studied Art & Architecture at Rice University, Houston, Eric went on to complete his Masters of Architecture degree at Princeton, being awarded the AIA’s Henry Adams Medal as the top graduate of 1983. All his research, design and development work is now concentrated in his main office in London, where he has lived for the past 15 years.