interaction design information architecture cross-media experience scenario
Just came back from Delhi: a week off-line, a week meeting number of designers and social software-ists, at the Doors 8 conference. Helas, half of the week was spoiled by a flu/cold … Nevertheless, went to see the Sarai place, one of the key (new) media place in India, with a discourse … but could not go to many other places …
I met David Weinberger at India Internet World in 1998 in Delhi and today there is still a trace of our conversation on JOHO, his site …
the trace of time, in its form, format, essence.
One Question Interview™
It was seven years ago. It was last century, that I went to Delhi. India Internet World … dreams and bubbles. Many things have changed meanwhile. I wrote a piece 7 years ago about the state of things …
Gurus, Avatars & co. building CyberIndia Inc.
What is happening in Delhi now ? Sarai & co, Doors of Perception, …
Doors of Perception (Doors) is an international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design - in particular, the design agenda for information and communication technologies (ICTs). Seven conferences have been organised in Amsterdam since 1993, with an average attendance of about one thousand people. The results of Doors are published on its website, which is visited by more than 300,000 people a year. The result is a worldwide community at the forefront of new thinking on design. Doors in an independent non-profit foundation (partly funded by the Ministry of Culture, and by the City of Amsterdam). As described by John Thackara in
http://www.doorsofperception.com
In 2005, the theme of Doors is INFRA
INFRA: Platforms for social innovation
What infrastructures are needed to enable bottom-up, edge-in social innovation? And how do we design them? Doors of Perception 8 is about these two questions.
Doors is a worldwide design and innovation network whose aim is to learn how to design services, some of them enabled by information technology, that meet basic needs in new ways. Every two years or so, the network meets to share the results of its work with citizens, education, industry and professionals.
I am attending the conference with F. Jégou, E. Manzini & others, many others … Looking forward to interesting conversations …
… a process of expanding the real freedoms that people are enjoying. Amartya Sen
Apu’s trilogy, Ghare Baire, … Rashomon, Taste of Sake, … long is the list …
Kisho Kurokawa’s building … time to see it