Doors of Perception East bio

	Jussi Ängeslevä Holding First Class BA in Audio Visual Media Culture from the University of Lapland in Finland, and MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Jussi is currently working at the Media Lab Europe in Dublin as a researcher. He is also a co-founder and Art Director of new media agency Prosopon in Finland. His field of specialisation is in physical and embodied interfaces and the merging of real and virtual spaces. His work has been presented internationally in events and venues such as Siggraph, Museu de Serralves, Art Basel, Kiasma, Science Museum London. In the recent years he has received awards from Royal Society of Arts, National Endowment of Science Technology and Arts, and most recently together with Ross Cooper 2 Silver Awards from D&AD, High Commendation from Prix Ars Electronica and Gold Award from the Art Directors Club of Europe.
Arun M Arun M (really his name, not an abreviation!) is a free software activist and one of the founding members of Free Software Foundation of India, third chapter of the International Free Software Foundation. Initiated Malayalam GNU/Linux localisation project, where they are trying Free Software talk local language and culture. Involved in IT@School project to bring IT enabled education to schools in Kerala. Currently Arun M is working as the coordinator of SPACE-Kerala initiative, a Government of Kerala sponsored initiative to promote Free Software and develop a new kind of IT enterprise based on it.
	Marko Ahtisaari As Director of user-focused activities in the Insight & Foresight Unit of Nokia, Marko Ahtisaari ‘concretises’ emerging business opportunities by identifying developments in technology, business models, and culture. He studied economics, philosophy and musical composition at Columbia University, New York City, where he subsequently lectured in logic, philosophy of economics and the history of thought. Prior to Nokia, he worked on mobiles at the design consultancy Satama Interactive, serving major clients. Marko Ahtisaari continues to make music, and was awarded a Grammy Showcase Award for new artists.
	Sean Blair moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1985 to study ‘Design for Industry’ at Newcastle Polytechnic. Whilst a student, Sean won two major national competitions, the first was the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) bursary for the design of a Video Conference System. This bursary enabled Sean to work and travel in North America where he met and worked with some of North America’s leading designers. In 1988, Sean was named the ‘Student Lighting designer of the Year’. The following year he graduated with a first class honours degree. After graduating, Sean established Octo Design in 1989 where Octo was one of ‘Design Works‘ first tenants. In 1990 Sean was named the UK’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in the “LiveWire” scheme sponsored by Shell, run by Project North East. He also won the NDC Small Business of the Year in 1991. Octo Design grew to be the largest industrial design consultancy in the North East. In 1994 Sean was invited to serve on the board of the Design Council. In 1995 Sean sold Octo Design to its employees (it still trades to this day) to become the Design Council’s first Design Director in fifty years. Whilst at the Design Council, he was responsible for the Design Council’s design strategy. He advised Government Ministers on Business Link design policy. In 1999 Sean was invited to become a Research Fellow at the University of Northumbria’s Centre for Design Research where he has been undertaking a research project into the future of design education. He co-wrote with Dr Bob Young and Andrea Cooper the keynote speech, ‘“Redesigning Design Education - the Next Bauhaus?” for the 2001 ICSID conference ‘Exploring Emergent Design Paradigms’ in Korea. The new design process outlined in this paper was tested with a student group working with Nokia in 2002, its impacts are the subject of a paper delivered to an international design conference in Spain spring 2003. In 2000 Sean co-founded the Nowhere Group of Companies and in three years this has now become six companies with a turnover of c£2.4m. Nowhere Group was nominated one of the ’50 to watch’ growth companies by ‘Real Business’ magazine. In 2003 Sean sold his shareholdings in Nowhere to establish a new company, ‘Spirit of Creation’ which aims to establish itself as the UK's foremost Service Design company Sean is also a Fellow in Enterprise at Durham University, and sits on the Council of the Royal Society of Arts. Recently Sean has been invited to serve on the Mayor for London’s Creative Industry Commission which aims to develop a creative strategy for the future of London. Sean has written, spoken and broadcast, on TV and radio on design, innovation and creativity in the UK and overseas.
	Apala Lahiri Chavan is the Managing Director of Human Factors International based in Mumbai. Apala's usability experience includes interface design, standards and style guide development, needs analysis, task flow analysis, forms design, documentation, training, and online support. An award winning designer she has led teams spanning design, development, testing, and deployment of software products. She has a special interest in the issue of internationalisation of products and has presented several papers on the subject.Apala is overall co-ordinator for IESUP and also has the specific role as the West India co-ordinator (Mumbai, Ahmedabad).
	Gillian Crampton Smith is Director of Interaction Design Insitute Ivrea (Italy). Having studied philosophy and history of art at Cambridge University, Gillian Crampton Smith graduated in 1968 and spent the following decade as a designer - first in book publishing, then on the Sunday Times and Times Literary Supplement. In 1981, she designed and implemented a page layout program to help her with magazine design - an early desktop publishing application. This experience convinced her that artists and designers have an important role to play in creating information technologies. She joined St Martin's School of Art in 1983 where she set up a new postgraduate course in graphic design and computers for practising designers. In 1989 she moved to the Royal College of Art (the UK's only purely graduate school of art and design). At the RCA, she established the Computer Related Design Department, where artists and designers apply their traditional skills to interactive products and systems. Under her guidance, the CRD Research Studio achieved an international reputation as a leading centre for interaction design, supported by a wide range of industrial sponsors
	Dr. Susantha Goonatilake was first trained in electrical engineering in Sri Lanka, Germany and Britain and later in sociology in Sri Lanka and Britain. Among Dr. Susantha Goonatilake’s books are Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Civilizational Misadventure (Indiana University Press, 2001); Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge (Indiana University Press 1999, Sage India 2000); Merged Evolution: the Long Term Implications of Information Technology and Biotechnology (Gordon & Breach. New York, London 1999); Technological Independence: the Asian Experience (ed. the United Nations University, Tokyo 1993); Evolution of Information: Lineages in Genes, Culture and Artefact (Pinter Publishers, London, and PBS Publishers, New Delhi 1992); Aborted Discovery: Science and Creativity in the Third World (Zed Press London 1984); Crippled Minds : an Exploration into Colonial Culture (Vikas Publishers, New Delhi 1982); Food as a Human Right (ed The United Nations University, Tokyo 1982); Jiritsu Suru Ajia No Kagaku-Dai San Sekai Ishiki Karano Kaiho (A Free Asian Science -Towards Liberation of the Third World Mind - Japanese translation of writings by Susantha Goonatilake on non-European knowledge systems Ochanomizu Shobo Publishers; Tokyo 1990); and Al-Iktishaf al-mujahad; al-‘ilm wa-l-ibda’ fi al-‘alam al-thalithSuzantha Ghunatilik Tarjamahu ‘afif al-Razaz (Arabic translation of writings by Susantha Goonatilake on non-European knowledge systems) Center for Arabic Studies Beirut 1991 Dr. Susantha Goonatilake has taught or researched among others at the University of Exeter, University of Sussex, UK; Columbia University; New York; New School for Social Research, New York; Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo; University of Philippines, Manila; University of Trondheim, Norway; University of Linkoping, Sweden and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. He has worked at the UN. He has also being a senior consultant for all the UN organs dealing with knowledge and science and technology issues (such as UNU, UNESCO, UNDP, ILO, FAO, ESCAP, APDA, etc). Dr. Goonatilake is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a former General President of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.
	Warren Greving is the Director of Contextual Design and Sustainable Business Ecologies at HP Labs India. This department focuses on the questions of sustainability of business opportunities in emerging markets. He has been part of the team that has been planning and organizing that lab. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1986 and for the last sixteen years has worked primarily in software product research and development. He was a principal engineer and architect of HP's Softbench software development environment, that in the 1980s, was one of the first integrated software development toolsets on UNIX workstations. In the early 90s, he was a software architect and consultant on HP's Distributed Smalltalk, one of the first software environments to implement distributed systems on object request broker standards. From 1995 till 2000, he was the chief architect and technical officer for HP's Chai Appliance Platform based on embedded virtual machine technology. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, a degree in Mathematics from Northwestern College, Iowa and a degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Seminary, California. His interests include virtual machines, dynamic languages, internationalization of software, software intellectual property rights, and ethnographic design, as well as photography, culture and travel. He speaks Mandarin Chinese as a second language
	.Zeenat Hasan. As Operations Officer at the Center for Knowledge Societies, Zeenat is coordinating logistics for the Doors East Conference. Her regular responsibilities include mediating between domain experts and the CKS team for user research and design work that results in new kinds of ICT products and services in emerging markets. Prior to her work at CKS, Zeenat conceptualized and designed the structure of web-based applications and websites. Her training includes a Masters in Communications from the Manipal Insitute of Communication.
	Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, an eminent IITian and a leading authority in telecommunications, computer networks, and fiber optic communications, is the Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, in 1975, and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine, USA in 1977 and 1979, respectively. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras. Dr.Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras. This group is closely working with industry in the development number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. Dr. Ashok Jhunjunwala was awarded the Padma Shree in 2002.
	Michael Kieslinger Associate Professor interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy Michael Kieslinger is the coordinator of the Tomorrow's Services research unit and the organiser of the service design curriculum. He tutors the student project 'Fast Technology for Slow Cities' that focuses on sustainable service development for smart cities. His personal research work - Fluidtime - focuses on the development of time-based services for everyday activities. It investigates how personalised information can support people in a flexible networked society.
	Jouke Kleerebezem Aside from being a fine artist Jouke Kleerebezem (the Netherlands) is also working as Advising Researcher of the Design Department at post-academic Jan van Eyck institution in Maastricht NL, where he rewrites the design research agenda. He has been involved with Doors since 1994 and was Commissioning Editor of the Netherlands Design Institute's website 1996-1999. He publishes widely on design, arts and media in the professional press (Mediamatic, Mute, Items, Witte Raaf, Metropolis M, AIGA Journal) and lectures in the international design (educational) community. After a formal education in typography and graphic design from 1972-1977, Jouke Kleerebezem produced as an artist/curator until 1993, when he turned to new media and the Internet/W3, both for his organizational and personal artistic activities. His projects include international exhibitions Allocations (1992) and Silicon Rally (1996), and websites Notes Quotes Provocations and Other Fair Use (nqpaofu.com, since 1998), Innovation and Design for Information Empowerment (idie.net, since 1999). A selection of his design critiques will be published as 'Omnia Mea in Media', in 2003. www.nqpaofu.com idie.net
	Dr. (Prof.) Darlie O Koshy Executive Director NID (National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad, India) and Executive Board Member, ICSID www.nid.edu Mission statement by Dr. Darlie O Koshy
	Lavrans Løvlie is an interaction designer and service designer. He is a partner of the design consultancy Live\|Work which does service design research and commercial service design development. Over the last year and a half, he has been involved with various teaching and research activities at Interaction-Ivrea. Originally from Norway, he now lives and works in London. www.livework.co.uk/
	Ezio Manzini The Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic, where he is Director of CIRIS (the Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Innovation for Sustainability), Ezio Manzini is an acknowledged expert on the design of services. He is also the author of such classic design books as The Material of Invention, Artefacts: Towards a New Ecology of the Artificial Environment, and (with Marco Susani) Solid Side: The Search for Consistency in a Changing World. He spent 2001 in China, where he set up a design for sustainability network (that includes Doors). Link: Milan Polytechnic
	Simona Maschi Simona Maschi's main focus is on designing and visualising future scenarios of everyday life. She has been a senior researcher and assistant professor at the Milan Polytechnic University since 1996, and worked on EU-funded projects with such companies as Bosch-Siemens, Biologica, Philips Design, DeSter and Dàlt. Key research projects were SusHouse (on developing and evaluating strategies towards sustainable households), HiCS (Highly 'Customer-ised' Solutions, on defining industrialised solutions for delivering food to people with reduced mobility), and SDI (Italian Design System, on understanding the values of the Italian design practice in order to drive its future innovation). She was also in charge of developing EU- funded research proposals and taught strategic design. In 2002 she was a visiting scholar at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and in 1997 she interned with Material ConneXion. Before 1996, she worked as an interior designer for residential and commercial clients within her family's furniture business.
	Drs. Caroline Nevejan is director of research and development of the University of Professional Education of Amsterdam (NL). This research group (OrO) has the task to work with teachers and students to design and to redesign learning environments in the fast changing world of higher education. (www.oro.hva.nl). Since 1995 Caroline Nevejan is connected to Performing Arts Labs (UK). As advisor and research associate, she has focused with PAL on the changes for the performing arts with the rise of the current new media era. (www.pallabs.org). In the summer of 2003 Nevejan started her PhD research project "Presence in Learning Environments" with prof. Cees Hamelink at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1988 she has been involved in designing digital culture. For 11 years Nevejan was a staff member of Paradiso, the musical venue of long-standing international reputation. (www.paradiso.nl) In 1994 Nevejan co-founded the Society for Old and New Media (aka De Waag) which is an independent media lab and a knowledgecenter with a specific interest in the future of the public domain. (www.waag.org) In 1999 Caroline Nevejan joined the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Where she currently directs the educational design process of this large institution. (www.teacherslab.hva.nl, www.q-conference.hva.nl). Nevejan is an advisor to national and European policy makers and has been connected to the Doors of Perception Foundation for many years
	Jogchem Niemandsverdriet won this years webby for best personal website and is the maker of the Doors of Perception video-collages. He studied audiovisual design at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam), multimedia design at the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam) and worked for four years as a programmer/designer/animator of CD-ROMs and web sites.
	Jogi Panghaal graduated in Product Design from the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India in 1977. He co-founded Lifetools in New Delhi to provide product design and communication design services to communities, both rural and urban that needed design help. Projects done include product design work with rural artisans and disabled children and communication design work with rural and urban communities, particularly women in the areas of health and HIV/AIDS. Mr. Panghaal has been a visiting teacher at NID, at Les Ateliers Paris and at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He has research interests in the area of cultural identity and design and has conducted educational programmes around this theme. In a parallel project he has been involved in the study of food and identity issues. In fact both these projects have informed each other over time. Present intereommunities and resource institutions to establish mutually useful relationships with each other through the help of information technologies. Experience in Specific Asian Countries/territories : A : Working with marginalised groups of people in India and also Bangladesh. Work has included design of special aids (mobility, educational, play, income generation) for disabled groups across several areas of disability. B: Working with women in Rural areas on issues of literacies ( designing primers), health and income generation etc. C: Working with artisans to use their traditional skills to find new markets for their old/new products. D: representing a very rich mix of experiences in methodologies, approaches, perspectives and strategies that have learnt from the traditional sector and what was taught in modern educational sector.
	Girish Prabhu, is a Research Manager for Contextual Design at HP Labs India and is responsible to develop and manage the contextual design research portfolio. Prior to joining HP, he had worked with Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester NY, Kirloskar and WIPRO in software systems analysis. During his Ph.D, he worked with various multinational and US Federal agencies, designing and implementing user centric design based software products. He has published referred papers in international journals and holds 9 U.S. patents. He is a member of ACM-SIGCHI, British HCI, and HFES. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Human Factors) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. His interests include ethnographic design, strategic business planning, and product and software internationalization.
	Patrik Sallner is Director and Head of Business Team in the Insight & Foresight unit of Nokia Ventures Organization. The team explores disruptive business system changes with the goal of drawing strategic insights for Nokia’s core businesses and identifying attractive new business opportunities. Patrik started his career developing strategy for Nokia Mobile Phones, transitioning into Product Management and Mobile Phone Concepting roles. He has also spent several years as a management consultant and Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Paris and Helsinki Offices. Patrik has an MS degree in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology as well as an MBA from the Wharton School and a MA (International Studies) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He plays the bassoon and has studied music at the Helsinki Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy in Finland.
	Debra Solomon Debra Solomon is an Amsterdam based fine artist who originated from California She teaches at the Dutch Art Institute for Master of Fine Arts programme, in the Netherlands
	Aditya Dev Sood is founder and CEO of the Center for Knowledge Societies. A former Fulbright Scholar, he has published widely and maintains a multidisciplinary interest in social research, education, technology, and design. With foundational training in Design and Critical Theory at the University of Michigan, he is also completing doctorates in Anthropology and South Asian languages from the University of Chicago. The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) is a Usability and Design Research organization working in the technology sector. CKS affords insight into the use of Information and Communications Technologies in non-traditional and emerging market environments. They offer research, design and strategy consultancy services to technology houses, international development agencies, and grassroots organizations. Since early 2000, they have worked in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, n-Logue Communications, UNDP, UNICEF, USAID, the Educational Development Center, and Samuha.Org.The work is directed towards the larger objective of creating commercially viable technology-enabled infrastructure for emerging economies, with a primary focus on South Asia. Through usability research, quantitative analysis, and sectoral intelligence, they drive the development and deployment of emerging technologies for the benefit of non-elite and rural users.
	John Thackara is Director and first Perceptron of Doors of Perception (Doors) in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Doors organises a celebrated biannual conference about the future of design; it also organises events in which organisations - ranging from cities to universities - explore the consequences of the Internet for their business. John was the first Director (1993-1999) of the Netherlands Design Institute. An expert on design and innovation, he is a member of the Virtual Platform, a body which advises the Dutch government on media cultural policy, and is Visiting Professor in computer-related design at the Royal College of Art in London. He is on the Steering Committee of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Italy, and on the Scientific Committee of the Interactive Institute in Sweden. He sits on expert groups that advise the European Commission on its innovation policies. john@thackara.com www.thackara.com