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
Category: Conferences
Rough guide to Salone
When asked what he thought of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair a friend of mine said: “hmm, i think that the european furniture market is doing well, it’s def on the up-and-up. very shameless stuff. after a few years of crisis it seems that it’s doing better… big things. marcel wanders, hayon, studio job, moss,… Continue reading Rough guide to Salone
Soundbites at Cybersalvations
Live-blogging has lost it’s sheen for me lately. Especially when you know that whatever it is that you just saw is going to be filmed and available within 24 hours, then the written reports, the work of a typist almost, doesn’t seem that appealing. It’s like going to the theater to go to a conference… Continue reading Soundbites at Cybersalvations
Reporting on Doors of Perception 2/3: Juice as in transport
It’s so easy to forget that your own behaviors are the result of your surroundings. India was a vivid reminder of that. Delhi is the home of 13 million people, or 9 000 people per square kilometer. That means nothing until you have to think about how those people will start going places and then… Continue reading Reporting on Doors of Perception 2/3: Juice as in transport
Reporting on Doors of Perception 1/3: New Friends
If anything this trip has reminded me of how much I hate long haul flights. In the space of a day, I woke up at 4 in Delhi, took off on a plane at 8 30, landed in Bahrain 5 hours later to take a plane exactly 30 minutes later and sit there watching crap… Continue reading Reporting on Doors of Perception 1/3: New Friends
Blogging at Doors
Will be live blogging from the Doors official conference (much much more thoughts on the week I just spent in the next few days of course) on Tastythinking. Follow me there!
News from sunny/rainy India
Just letting you know I’m deep in workshops, eating street food, walking around the most desolate areas of Delhi and generally taking about a million pictures of Doors 9: Juice on my flickr stream. Enjoy! Back to the usual rants on the 8th of March.
CookCamp
My good friend Dave Chiu is helping put this together. Add it to your calendar, all you san franers out there… CookCamp February 24, 2007 San Francisco, CA Venue: CitizenSpace CookCamp Wiki page Upcoming.org The CookCamp un-conference will focus on food and health, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds (health, technology, design, food, politics, business,… Continue reading CookCamp
Near-field interaction workshop post-mortem
I came back from a very vibrant Near-field interactions workshop in Oslo, hosted and organized by Timo Arnall,Julian Bleeker and Nicolas Nova. This is the third workshop organized of this kind around this subject, the first one, which I attended, took place at LIFT, the second one took place in Geneva again a few months… Continue reading Near-field interaction workshop post-mortem
Fresh Start poster
I showed you the Fresh Start poster a few weeks ago when I first started designing it and now the final versionthat was finished by Dave is online as well. Enjoy and do comment!