Timo Arnall: "Making Things Visible"

A designer and researcher at Oslo School of Architecture, Timo Arnall offers here his perspective about networked objects and ubiquitous computing. His presentation, and the intriguing design examples he takes, highlights two phenomena. On the one hand, he describes how sensors and RFIDs can enable to "make things visible" as the title of his presentation expresses. On the other hand, he shows the importance of going beyond screen-based interactions.

Changing Innovation

Changing Innovation – Innovating with the non-innovators. Marcos heads content development and coordinates the main working lines of Madrid's Medialab-Prado along with Laura Fernández. In spring of 2006 they started the project Interactivos?, a platform for developing projects through the collaboration of participants who come from different disciplines

Changing Innovation

Changing Innovation - The end of IT. In addition to 21 years culminating in a senior position in the BBC Euan has had five years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most of this wired-up world of work and how businesses can prepare themselves for the challenges and the opportunities it represents.

Conditional Future

Jean-Michel Cornu is chief Scientist at Fing (Next Generation Internet Foundation in France) and acts as an international consultant on Information Society and Technologies. He has published several books. Among them "Prospectic, new technologies, new thoughts" on new technologies such as Nanos, Biotechs, ICT, Neuro-sciences, Cognitives sciences.

Gunter Pauli on Biomimetism

Gunter Pauli, from the "Zero Emissions Research Initiative" gives a vibrant speech about how nature provides an important model to find solutions to the ecological crisis. His call for action is followed by disruptive and inspiring examples ranging from battery-less devices to biomimetism.

Changing Things

The Internet of Things is not what you think it is! Usman Haque has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances.

Generative and Future Open (FR)

Making sure the Web stays 'Generative' and Future Open”. Since January 2004 he has been the founder and chairman of Mozilla Europe, the European home of the Firefox Web browser.

Changing Things

Alexandra is an industrial and interaction designer. She attended the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where she met the other founders of Tinker.

Changing ourselves, not the Planet

Dennis Pamlin, who is Global Policy Advisor for the WWF, introduces the ecological challenges we face and contrast them with most of the technological progresses. His talk delineates a set of filters to understand how to judge innovation on conjunction with the long-term consequences they might have on the planet.

In-Flexions, Non-Standard Design (FR)

Digital Designer and Professor Based in France.

Changing Things

Changing Things (2) Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products. Mike Kuniavsky researches, designs and writes about people's experiences at the intersection of technology and everyday life. Companies and universities around the world use his 2003 book, "Observing the User Experience," to understand and teach techniques that bring the design of products closer to the people who use them.

Changing Innovation

Catherine is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council’s cultural relations think tank. A former Director of Demos, she is a regular commentator on identity politics in the UK and Europe.

Daniel Kaplan Lift France 09 interview

Interviews series with Daniel Kaplan @ Lift France 2009

Conditional Future

Rob van Kranenburg is an innovation and media theorist involved with negociability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and RFID, the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.

Changing Innovation

Changing Innovation (1)- The end of IT. Martin Duval is the fonder and CEO of Bluenove, which develops open innovation programs and implements sustainable change through open and collaborative innovation.

Viktoria Trosien Lift France 09 interview

Interviews series with Viktoria Trosien @ Lift France 2009

Changing the Planet

Frank Kresin is Programme Manager at the Waag Society. His interest and expertise is in developing solutions for societal problems, programme management, technology and standards of e-learning, broadband based services, social software and open content.

Design and sustainability

John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, gives a provocative talk about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. After inviting us to avoid terms such as "future" or "sustainable" as they maintain a certain distance to the problem we face, he shows a rich set of projects he participated in. He makes the important point that the resources to be put in place already exist and that they might not necessitates complex technological developments.

Changing Innovation

Changing Innovation - The end of IT. As a consultant and a teacher, Marc Giget is one of France's leading voices on innovation. The "Innovation Tuesdays" he has created at Paris' National Center for Arts and Crafts (Cnam) have become the gathering place for big and small innovators, students and researchers looking for new ideas, case studies and inspiration.

Changing Innovation (2) – Innovating with the non-innovators

Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, organism, mailing list and website.

Changing Things

Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet's takeaways

"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy.

Changing the Planet

Elizabeth Goodman’s writing, design and research focus on the intersections of technology, the social sciences, and interaction design. Currently a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, Elizabeth studies the relationship between mobile technologies and the experience of place.

Art & RFID? (FR)

Nicolas Frespech is a French artist born in 1971. He has been working with the Web since 1996, and taught Net Art at Paul Valery University from 2002 to 2005. His various projects form a body of work that covers identity and its virtual and mercantile standardization, intimacy, the phenomenon of Webcams and telesurveillance, media, games and fiction.

Initial and necessary challenge: "Technology & Society: Know your History!"

Dominique Pestre, historian of science, has worked on the relationship between physics and technology in the XXth century. Part of his work is also dedicated to understanding the heritage of the war on scientific methods such as game theory, system analysis, operative research.

Nicolas Anderlé Lift France 09 interview (FR)

Interviews series with Nicolas Anderlé @ Lift France 2009

UNESCO to supervise Google Index?

Training manager at CLEO (Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte). Editor and writer for Homo Numericus, a webmagazine about social aspects of ICT.

Changing Things

Changing Things (2) Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products. Michael Shiloh is an engineer, hobbyist, researcher, artist, and educator. Michael creates by himself and collaborates with children and students of all ages and with other electro-mechanical artists, including San Francisco-based Survival Research Labs.

Gunter Pauli Lift France 09 interview

Interviews series with Gunter Pauli @ Lift France

LIFT takeaways (FR)

Philippe Lemoine is CEO of LaSer, a services company which develops its activity in Europe with 6000 collaborators. He is also involved in initiatives in 3 different areas: Social transformation through the "Modernity Action Forum"; Corporate transformation, by taking part in several boards ; And Technology, by chairing Fing, France's Next-generation Internet Foundation.