-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [o2mailinglist] Doors 7 on Flow Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:54:38 +0200 From: Rob van Kranenburg <doors7editor@doorsofperception.com> Doors of Perception 7 Flow: the design challenge of pervasive computing 14,15,16 November 2002 Amsterdam http://flow.doorsofperception.com What happens to society when there are hundreds of microchips for every man, woman and child on the planet - most of them (the chips) talking to each other? What are the implications of a world filled with sensors and actuators? What does 'the world as spread sheet' look like? What will it mean it to be 'always on' in a real-time economy? Some of the world's most insightful designers, thinkers and entrepreneurs will address these questions at Doors of Perception 7 in Amsterdam on 14, 15 and 16 November 2002.The theme of the celebrated international gathering is flow: the design challenge of pervasive computing. Confirmed Doors of Perception speakers are: TON VAN ASSELDONK (Netherlands) business advisor MICHAEL AWAD (Canada) architect/photographer JANINE BENYUS (USA) author ofBiomimicry: innovations inspired by nature BEN VAN BERKEL and CAROLINE BOS (Netherlands) UN Studio, architects PETER BOEGH ANDERSEN (Denmark) maritime instrumentation designer STEFANO BOERI (Italy) architect OLE BOUMAN (Netherlands) editor of Archis JOSHUA DAVIS (USA) web artist ADITYA DEV SOOD (India) Director Centre for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO (Spain) authorFire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy FELICE FRANKEL (USA) Director Envisioning Science project at MIT J C HERZ (USA) CEO, Joystick Nation IVO JANSSEN (Netherlands) pianist NATALIE JEREMIJENKO (USA) Centre for Advanced Technology, NYU DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE (Canada) Director, The McLuhan Programme ROB VAN KRANENBURG (Netherlands) Flow editor, Doors of Perception EZIO MANZINI (Italy) Politecnico Milano, expert on sustainability and the design of services PATRICIA DE MARTELAERE (Belgium) philosopher, author of What Remains MALCOM McCULLOUGH (USA) author of Abstracting Craft FRANZISKA NORI (Italy/Gemany) curator ofI Love You at MAK Frankfurt DAVID ROKEBY (Canada) media artist ELLIE RUNCIE and GILL WILDMAN (UK) The Design Council MICHAEL SCHMIDT and TOKE NYGAARD (Denmark) K10K FELIX STALDER (CANADA) moderator of Nettime , Director of Openflows BRUCE STERLING (USA) writer MARCO SUSANI (Italy) director advanced concepts group at Motorola PHILIP TABOR (UK) former director, Bartlett School of Architecture JOHN THACKARA (UK) first Perceptron, Doors of Perception LARS ERIK HOLMQUIST, (Sweden) leader of the Future Applications Lab AXEL THALLEMER (Germany) Festo Corporate Design JAKUB WEJCHERT (Belgium) project managerThe Disappearing Computer NEIL GERSHENFELD (USA) director of the Centre for Bits and Atoms, MIT Open Doors - Design Grand Prix Who has the most exciting, innovative and meaningful project for the future use of pervasive computing? To find out, we are staging an exciting special event at the end of Day 2: Open Doors Design Grand Prix. In quick-fire, five-minute presentations, 20 finalists - selected by our advisors from around the world - will present proposals for design scenario projects to a jury of experts. Doors of Perception Doors of Perception (Doors) brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and designers, who need to imagine alternative futures - sustainable ones - and take design steps to realize them. Our products are a better understanding of the design process; scenarios for services that meet emerging needs in new ways; and new connections and capabilities among innovative people and organisations. Contact details E: press@doorsofperception.com (Livia Ponzio) T: 00 31 20 596 3220 F: 00 31 20 596 3202 W: http://flow.doorsofperception.com http://doorsofperception.com Subscribe to Doors' email newsletter at: http://www.doorsofperception.com "brilliant, innovative and coolStrends that will mark design in the future" (DOMUS) "bridges the establishment and the cultural avant-gardeSa catalyst for radical cultural ideas that result in sustainable business innovations" (WALL STREET JOURNAL) -- D O O R S O F P E R C E P T I O N Wibauthuis, Wibautstraat 3, 1091 GH Amsterdam Tel +31 20 596 3220 Fax +31 20 596 3202 Email: doors7editor@doorsofperception.com http://www.doorsofperception.com http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/rob Are you on the Doors mailing list? Register at: http://www.doorsofperception.com/mailinglist [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/jd3IAA/kGEolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Please diregard the ads at the bottom of these messages. They are how yahoo provides this group email service for free to us. Thanks! -Kiersten Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/