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DAY 1 – THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER


John Thackara
Director and First Perceptron, Doors of Perception, Amsterdam

presentation title: "Why We Are Here" [keywords]
Why We Are Here [slideshow of .ppt presentation] Thackara is involved with the design of institutions and projects in many countries that connect design, new technology, business, cities and daily life.

Marko Ahtisaari &
Patrik Sallner

Nokia Ventures, Insight and Foresight, Finland

The ways we use mobile phones are often quite different from the ways their manufacturers anticipated. Ahtisaari and Sallner discuss ways of anticipating communication patterns while still leaving space for the unexpected to emerge.

Ezio Manzini
Professor in the design faculty of Milan Polytechnic University

presentation title: "Wellbeing" [a paper]
"Wellbeing" [slideshow of presentation]
An international expert on design for sustainability, Manzini has just curated a new exhibition in Milan called 'Scenarios of everyday life'.

Simona Maschi
Professor of services design at Interaction Design Instritute Ivrea, Italy

Maschi is a pioneer in the practice of service design. She has led future scenario projects with major companies such as Fiat.

Lavrans Lovlie
Live/Work, London

presentation title: "Time Banking " [slideshow of presentation]
What does it mean to design a service? How do you represent something intangible like a service? What skills are needed in this new domain, and how do you coordinate them? Lovlie is a director of a next-generation service design company in London.

Garrick Jones
Director of Accelerated Solutions, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, London

What design techniques are available to help big organizations re-think what they are, what they do, and why?

Gillian Crampton Smith
Director, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

presentation title:"Interaction Ivrea"
(slideshow of .ppt presentation)
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea is one of the world's leading centres for research into the new ways we interact with technology and systems.

Caroline Nevejan
Director of Learning Research,
Hogeschool van Amsterdam

presentation title: "Design Process in Learning Environments"
(slideshow of .ppt presentation)
NEW: Travel report (pdf)
Nevejan is one of Europe's leading researchers in the area of the design of learning envirohments in which people, real and virtual spaces interact.

Sean Blair
Spirit of Creation, a consortium developing a next-generation design institute in the North East of England.

presentation title: "Design Innovation Education Center" (slideshow of .ppt presentation)
The natural, human and industrial systems around us are changing - so the ways we educate designers and innovators also need to change. How?

Geetha Narayanan

Director, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

Panel C: LEARNING

Moderator: Jogi Panghaal - President, Doors East + Darlie O Koshy - Director, National Institute of Design

Jussi Ängeslevä
MediaLab Europe; winner Open Doors 2002

With wearable computing, the gadgets and buttons and screens we now carry around will merge with our clothing. How will we interact with technology that is wrapped around our body?
body_mnemonics/

Jogchem Niemandsverdriet

Winner of the 2003 Webby ("the Oscars of the Internet") for best personal website

DAY 2 – FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER

Susantha Goonatilake
New School for Social Research, New York.

presentation title: The shift to Asia
[text of his slides]
Dr Goonatilake, the author of Mining Civilizational Knowledge, explores what it will mean for innovation when culture and ways of living are more valuable than natural resources.

Arun M
http://www.gnu.org.in

presentation title: Free Software Foundation of India. [slides of his presentation]
Are the open source and free software movements in software migrating to other aspects of the economy and culture?

Jouke Kleerebezem

presentation title: The Good, the Bad and the Humble; design in service of the everyday.
[link to idie.net] Jouke Kleerebezem is a Dutch artist/ writer based in France

Michael Kieslinger
Professor, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea; project leader Fluid Time

Industrial-age products and services follow the logic of their production process. Demand-respojsive services, and the dynamic allocation of resources in real-time, changes that logic. What does this new world look and feel like? Fluid Time is a live experiment,  based on Turin's bus system.
www.fluidtime.net/

Warren Greving
Director, HP Labs India
Girish Prabhu - Research Manager - Contextual Design, User and Business Studies, HP Labs

"Invention in Context: HP's research for Emerging Economies"
In its interest to more effectively serve the emerging economy countries of the world, HP's research lab has established a team in Bangalore which has complemented its technical research with user studies, design and business disciplines in order to discover future products and services. The result is a dynamic, exciting team that is experimenting with how to integrate research around diverse disciplines. This talk examines the value and challenges of this approach

Edwin van Vianen,
Philips Design

presentation title: "The power of Imagination" [slideshow of his .ppt presentation]
The presentation will touch upon the importance of communication in complex/global organisations as Philips. It will discuss this also looking towards future developments within Philips and will give some examples of communication tools we use.

Jan Chipchase

Nokia / Moblogging

ETHNOGRAPHY and DESIGN

Moderator: Aditya Dev Sood
- CEO, Center for Knowledge Societies + Darlie O Koshy Director, National Institute of Design, India, Moderator: Jouke Kleerebezem

Ashok Jhunjhunwala

tenet.res.in/
soyachoupal.com/
digitalpartners.org/nlogue.html

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.

Aditya Dev Sood and
Zeenat Hasan
- Center for Knowledge Societies:
Report back from Professional Workshop
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Director, TeNet
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Dr. Darlie O Koshy, Director, National Institute of Design

by Jayachandran

Lecture-Demonstration


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