On Wednesday I’ll be in Berlin for my keynote (yikes!!) at Web2.0 Expo Berlin and on Thursday I’ll be in Amsterdam to speak about hybrid toys at Mediamatic. If anyone is up for drinks, dinner, coffee, whatever…ping me! I love both cities and unfortunately don’t get to spend enough time there, so would be great… Continue reading The insane 48 hours ahead
Category: Conferences
Thoughts on Conferences
I just came back from the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2008in Seattle which in the end I enjoyed enormously. I say in the end, because at the beginning I didn’t get it. This is only my second American conference and I’m learning that the flavor of these kinds of events is definitely different in… Continue reading Thoughts on Conferences
Reboot10: a belated report
WordPress ate my first attempt, so here I go again. After several years of recommendations I finally decided to make it to Reboot, the much-loved Copenhagen-based conference orchestrated by Thomas Mygdal-Madsen. I was there primarily for Tinker mind you (we ran a workshop on the second day) but I attended a few talks and thought… Continue reading Reboot10: a belated report
Designing audiences: master and puppet.
Spending time in New York is always a story of compromises. I planned to go to the MoMa but didn’t get a chance to. Nice people were in town but triangulating was a nightmare. I think it has something to do with the scale and the spread of urban life there. In some cities, you… Continue reading Designing audiences: master and puppet.
Xtech talk: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Had a great time at Xtech on monday and basically tweaked my talk in light of the great things I had seen at Designmai. I talked about product design, how designers see objects and how that influences how the future “internet of things” will be designed. So you can download the pdf of my slides… Continue reading Xtech talk: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
The difference between a U and an S
I’m sitting in Berlin in a great café with a bear on the logo, on my way to Paris, not ready at all for my talk tomorrow, but have been terribly impressed by what I saw at the Designmai event. More on that later I promise. I was also part of a panel, invited by… Continue reading The difference between a U and an S
Ich bin ein Berliner
I will be, for just 24 hours unfortunately, dropping by Designmai, a yearly design event in Berlin, to be part of a panel named“What they hate about the world of design”. As the organiser of the panel Mell Byars describes the conversation as follows: ” I wrote to a number of journalists, museum curators, manufacturers,… Continue reading Ich bin ein Berliner
Thishappened.org: a cultural report
Most “normal” people, when they relocate, take a comfortable flight, try to minimize their stress levels and enjoy unpacking with a glass of white wine and a nice meal. Not this girl. I woke up last wednesday at 6 in the morning to take a cab with my flatmate D’arcy to Schipol to drop my… Continue reading Thishappened.org: a cultural report
Species of speakers
As I prepare my talk for next week’s Xtech in Paris, frantically trying to read the books that got delivered too late, I wonder about the people who do the conference circuit and have to give talks every other week. I think, from what I’ve seen and heard, that there are 2 types of speakers… Continue reading Species of speakers
Presentation sustainability
I will write more extensively about Luminous Green this week and what it feels like to be in a room full of artists, advertisers and cultural types talking about sustainability but for now i’ll concentrate on a smaller anecdote around the event that links nicely to the recent conversations about the use Powerpoint. In order… Continue reading Presentation sustainability