(Bruno Peyron was the one who helped conceive the event and first won the trophy in 1993).
"The thing that will surprise people is how young the contestants are," said the event's organizer, John Stuart Fryer, whose father, Cliff, was one of three to conceive the event and put up the prize money the first year.
The Trophy is awarded to the crew that sails around the world fastest, and Peyron's team finished in 45 days 13 hours and just under 43 minutes to return the trophy to the Peyron family (Bruno was the one who helped conceive the event and first won the trophy in 1993).
"I don't think the sense of polo being so elitist and unachievable is fair to the sport," said Ignacio Figueras, the Argentine polo star and Ralph Lauren model who said he had conceived the event, the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic.
Mr. O'Malley, a Web designer and an aspiring filmmaker, and Mr. Szczygielski, his film school colleague, conceived the event in part as a response to the ambivalence their own work faced in the festival establishment.
"It just seemed like there were all these groups of artists floating around and nobody getting them together," said Mike Fitelson, a photographer who is the editor of Manhattan Times, a local newspaper, and the person who conceived the event.
"Edison represents the old captains of industry who step all over people to get what they want and make money," said Maggie Duval, who conceived the event with Sam Tyler, an Austin purveyor of steampunk paraphernalia.
Mr. Berman conceived the event in a way the students found too enticing to resist, as I learned from speaking briefly with the pianist Lee Dionne, who earlier in the evening had played a majestic, technically impressive account of the formidable Sonata No. 8 in B flat, the last of three works composed from 1939 to 1944 and known as the "war sonatas".
Persuading the designers to show in one place, however, was as much of a challenge as securing the use of the park, a task that fell to Fern Mallis, who was then the executive director of the council and the person widely credited with conceiving the event.
On Reid's theory of memory, an apprehension establishes a direct relation to an event, which relation is preserved in memory by the acts of conceiving the event and believing of the event conceived that it happened to the person who remembers.
Gallerists Ally Canosa and Eva Maria Daniels conceived the event as an opportunity for collectors to preview the latest offerings of their online gallery in an immediate, palpable way.
