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From: Bruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: Viridian Note 00333: Doors of Perception
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Key concepts:
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Doors of Perception conference,
Amsterdam, Natalie Jeremijenko, robot dogs,
flows
Links:
GBN/Viridian Spokesmodel Tina Estes
temptingly displays the Sony Aibo prize for our
latest Viridian Design contest.
Semi-licit Aibo hacking. Don't look at us Viridians,
it isn't our fault:
http://www.generation5.org/aisolutions/rob04.shtml
Entries in the Biofuture Robot Dog Contest:
None yet, but check out this bit of Koestlerian
synchronicity from former Viridian contest judge
Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko.
Links:
Natalie Jeremijenko remarks:
"My robot dog adaptation pages:"
http://jove.eng.yale.edu/feralrobots
and
http://slowbot.com/hotdogs/
"It's a project I have been working on for about a year
now, in typical no-funding way. The radioactivity dog is
done and being deployed in November in some post Chernobyl
fallout regions by a bunch of Norwegian highschool
students, fingercrossed. I have a few students working
this semester on the organic solvent and carbon monoxide
dogs. It took me a year to convince my institution to let
me set these dogs on the students.
"Then you come in to invite hundreds, no thousands of well
paid, underworked corporate and anticorporate types to
jump all over the dog redesign game.... Or maybe to create
lots of interest/material/willing participants and dog
adaptation recruits. Not sure if you are wiv me or agin
me! Anyway, it is surprising how coincident you and I can
be. I thought I was secretly redeploying my feral robotic
dogs as secret agents.
"I think I will see you at Doors? your co-conspirer, n"
(((Why yes Professor Jeremijenko, I will indeed be at
Doors of Perception this year.)))
Links:
"The design challenge of pervasive computing
14, 15, 16 November 2002 in Amsterdam
"Flow
"'Everything flows' said Heraclitus. But we have filled our world with complex technical systems – on top of the natural systems that were already here, and
social/cultural ones that evolved over thousands of years – without thinking much about the consequences. Some of these consequences, as a result, include environmental
decline and poor social quality. So we need to start
thinking proactively about the design of complex systems and flows – particularly as we pervade the world with smart systems and ambient intelligence.
"We open the conference with a review of the natural,
human and industrial systems that we live among: how they
are doing? how they are interacting with each other? We
then explore the ways in which flows are a design issue.
What are the implications of a world filled with sensors
and actuators? What will it mean it to be 'always on' in a
real-time economy? To what question, is pervasive
computing an answer?
"In order to do things differently, we need to perceive
things differently. On Day 2 we therefore ask, how shall
we design ways to perceive, experience and understand
flows? What does the world as spreadsheet look like? How
do you design a global company¹s 'dashboard'? Do we only
design visualizations of flows, or do we design for all
the senses, and experience flows through performance?
"On Day 3 we look at the design process in the space of flows – and what it means to move from designing things, to designing systems. When computers disappear, what then
will we design? How do we move from a project model, to a
continuous model of design? In what ways are games,
simulations and play appropriate modes of designing flows?
"The conference combines short, punchy presentations – by thirty thought-leaders from around the world - with panel discussions, and interactions among you, the participants. Flow Breakfasts for small special interest groups take place on Days 2 and 3.
"Doors of Perception
"Doors is a conference, website, knowledge network, and
cultural accelerator.
"We bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and designers who want to imagine alternative futures – sustainable ones – and take design steps to realize them.
"Doors brings together the actors and the thinking that
will influence social, cultural, technological and
theoretical design decisions in the years ahead. Design
decisions which are process decisions in a media and
network saturated environment, where the computer has
disappeared as visible technology. When the computer
disappears the environment becomes the interface. We might
understand this as a move from content management towards
context-management. Yet: what does it mean to manage the
design of context?
"Speakers confirmed so far
"The programme will feature 30 presenters together with
invited panellists, moderators, and you, the conference
participants.
Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UN Architects, The
Netherlands
J.C. Herz, Joystick Nation, USA
Ivo Janssen, pianist, The Netherlands
Ezio Manzini, author of The Material of Invention, Italy
Malcom McCullough, author of On Digital Ground, USA
Aditya Dev Sood, Centre for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore
Philip Tabor, architect and writer, Italy
Bruce Sterling, leader of the Viridians, USA
Patricia de Martelaere, philosopher, writer, university of
Brussels, Belgium
Stefano Boeri, architect and urban planner, Italy
Felix Stalder, cofounder of openflows.org, Canada
Ole Bouman, editor of Archis magazine (who are publishing
a special issue on Flow for the conference), The
Netherlands
Franziska Nori, curator of the I love you virus exhibition
at Frankfurt's MAK, Germany
Marco Susani, director of the advanced concepts group at
Motorola Consumer Experience Design, USA
Felice Frankel, research scientist at MIT, USA
Ton van Asseldonk, advisor about change to large Dutch
enterprises, The Netherlands
Natalie Jeremijenko, engineer in the Center for Advanced
Technology, New York University, USA
Joshua Davis, designer of praystation.com, USA
Louis Fernandez-Galiano, author of Fire and Memory: On
Architecture and Energy, Spain
Axel Thallemer, founder and head of Festo Corporate
Design, Germany
Peter Boegh Andersen, Computer Science, Aalborg
University, Denmark
Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry, USA
Derrick de Kerckhove, director of the Mc Luhan Program in
Culture and Technology, Toronto, Canada
Gill Wildman and Ellie Runcie, design managers at the
Design Council, UK
Doors 7 Programme At A Glance
Thursday 14 November
11:30 Registration opens.
13:00 Conference begins
19:00 Ivo Janssen performance
19:30 Conference reception
Friday 15 November
08:00 Flow Breakfasts (by registration)
09:00 Bookshop and club-room open all day
09:30 Conference begins
1700-1900 Open Doors/ Design Grand Prix
Saturday 16 November
08:00 Flow Breakfasts (by registration)
09:00 Bookshop and club-room open all day
09:30 Conference begins
17:00-18:00 Large Doors panel
21:00 Conference Party (attendance is compulsory)
"People are losing their jobs: how do I justify coming to
Doors?
"One reason we face economic problems now is that the
technology-driven model of innovation has failed. People
participate in Doors when they need to imagine sustainable
and engaging futures – and take design steps to realize
them. Doors helps people and organisations look at the
world in new ways. We explore next-generation service and
product concepts, and develop exploitable insights, tools,
and knowledge. Doors gives you a better understanding of
the design process, and will introduce you to scenarios
for services that meet emerging needs in new ways. You
will make new connections among innovative people and
organizations that you would never have met elsewhere."
Address:
Wibauthuis, Wibautstraat 3 1091 GH,
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 596 3220
F +31 20 596 3202
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