| Index | Biographies | Presentations | Doors of Perception |
| Biographies |
Andrea Bandelli, a developer and manager for international projects, was instrumental in the set up of the first collaborative educational projects on the Internet in Italy in '93-'94. He then moved to the Netherlands where he developed the public information systems at newMetropolis (now NEMO). He is developing electronic tools that foster encounter and debate (in multiple languages) in places where "strangers" convene - with an initial focus on museums. |
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How might we use and value time in different ways? Live|Work, a London-based service design and research firm, has developed a concept for TelCos called “time banking”. |
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Slow Food has grown into an international movement, with over 60,000 members in all five continents. What other forms of slow could we develop? François Jégou specialises in the co-design of scenarios for new product-service systems. He is a visiting professor at the Politecnic University of Milan and La Cambre School of Visual Art in Brussels. Francois recently co-curated (with Ezio Manzini) a major exhibition at the Milan Triennale, Sustainable Everyday. http://www.solutioning-design.net (for more on co-design of scenarios) |
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Karlis is Technical and Creative Director of Locative Media Lab, and GPSter. Developed the GPSter collaborative waypoint sharing system. Active in projects to do with geographiti, Location Aware Networks, Devices, Software; Collaborative Cartography, Psychogeography Event, Virtual Systems Multimedia. Member of Bell Globemedia Content Innovation Network. |
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Industrial-age products and services follow the logic of their production process. Demand-responsive services, and the dynamic allocation of resources in real-time, changes that logic. What does this new world look and feel like? Michael Kieslinger is leader of a research project called Fluid Time – the provision personalised, time-based information of the services they are seeking. Fluid Time includes a live experiment based on Turin's bus system. Fluid time focuses on the development of time-based services for everyday activities. It investigates how personalized information can support people in a flexible networked society http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/en/gallery/fluidtime/index.asp |
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What would happen if citizens were to stop being passive spectators of cultural attractions, and begin to be creative participants in new street festivals? Zuzana Lapitkova is at the design department of Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, where her research in communication in the city of Maastricht, "Authoring the City“, focuses on festivals and festivities. Her previous research into ephemeral architecture included participation in the international theatre project “Bridges”, Karkkila, Finland, organised by the association of EU towns „Douzelage“. http://www.dejum.sav.sk/RES/lapitkov2_a.htm
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Stefano Mirti (Italy) designer of urban pilgrimages, Italy Imagine receiving a message on your mobile phone telling you that somebody you love has arranged for you to collect a surprise at a local pasticceria. Stefano Mirti, an architect, has worked in Italy, Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangkok. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as a post-doctorate researcher at Tokyo University. He was three times awarded the prestigious Europan architectural prize, and was a driving force behind the Grace Under Pressure installation at the Venice Biennale. His most recent project was This is Today: the invasion of the interactive body snatchers, an exhibition for Interaction Ivrea at the Milan Furniture Fair. http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/en/news/press/photos/2004/thisistoday/index.asp |
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Seventy years ago the Situationists campaigned against the “Society of the Spectacle”. Rode leads a new generation; he is the editor Psychogeographic Riga This Week (with Solvita Krese and Simona Weiland). After completing an MBA, Emils Rode took courses in Phenomenology, History of Music, and Philosphy as Art of Life. He was a Fulbright Scholar 1995-1997.He worked on strategy development for the Boston Consulting Group with clients in Russia and Eastern Europe. He was nominated this year (together with Simona Weiland) for the National Culture Award for innovation in the arts. He was a speaker at the management conference From Chaos to Order. Emils is currently involved with the Design for Latvia project. http://www.lcca.lv/en/republic2.html |
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Imagine a restaurant that is entirely focussed around a juice fast. Would the fasting restaurant be a silent juice bar? An elegant tea house? How might the juice packages for during the day be distributed? Debra Solomon is an Amsterdam based artist, chef and designer who comes originally from California. Solomon, who once worked at Amsterdam’s famous Supper Club, teaches at the Dutch Art Institute, in the Netherlands. A member of the slow-food movement, Solomon has recently led food-related design workshops in China and India. http://www.doorseast.com/bio_speakers/speakers.html |
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John Thackara is a “symposiarch” - someone who designs conferences and events. How might this ancient skill enhance the way we interact with cities? The question arises when traditional industries disappear from a locality: what is to take their place? In a project called Spark!, multi-disciplinary design teams from five EU countries, together with local officials and citizens, conducted design scenario workshops in five very different European locations. The outcome of these experiences is knowledge about the innovation process in localities. http://www2.uiah.fi/virtu/spark/conference.html |
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Songlines is an ongoing experiment in geo-annotation and collaborative cartography. Explore the streets! Experiencing real and virtual worlds! Marc Tuters is a researcher and curator in “locative media”. Marc has produced projects concerned with immersive media and augmented urbanism. He has programmed workshops at celebrated events such as Next 5 Minutes, Transmediale, Futuresonic, Virtual Systems Multimedia, and RIXC. Marc co-founded the Locative Media Lab research group into lo-fi augmented reality systems. Right now, Marc works as a visiting researcher RIXC Centre for New Media Culture in Riga. He is accompanied by system designer and coder Karlis Kalnins. http://www.gpster.net/gpster.html |
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Director and web producer, Doors of Perception. |
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Bertwin van Rooijen (NL) Via Breda Provincie Gelderland / projectleider Via Breda accompanied by: |
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Jane Szita (NL/UK) Doors of Perception Contributing editor, http://www.doorsofperception.com email: szita@xs4all.nl |