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Last June I met Jay Cousins (twitter), a “maker” and member of the collective Open Design City based in the Betahaus in Berlin, who is experimenting with home-cooked bioplastics and different products that can be derived from them. Jay and his group follow the philosophy of Open Design*.
At DMY 2010, the international design festival that [...]
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During the 2010 edition of the Glastonbury Festival a huge panoramic photo was taken, including more than 70,000 attendees. Now people have the possibility to tag themselves and their friends on it, creating a wonderful archive of the event. Wouldn’t it be useful (& fun) to do something similar at your next conference to document [...]
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Venues and event organizers work in a symbiotic status of mutual need but often engage in conflicting relationship because they don’t recognize each others needs. Yves Cretegny, now CEO of Lift Conference and in the past as CTO and CFO of Geneva-Palexpo (an important venue in Switzerland) thinks that in order to create a win-win [...]
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Last week I attended the SpinAwards after-event Party in Amsterdam and I wanted to share this nice idea: they used a black wristband (think of spongy tennis-like ones) as the ticket that granted you access to the party. Once you had it on your wrist you could move freely and get in and out of [...]
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Conference delegates, especially in tech events, are nowadays armed with at least one of the following: a mobile phone or smartphone, a laptop, a digital photo or video-camera and – soon soon enough- a tablet (welcome iPad!). The elevated number of gadgets per capita in use at an these events makes it a common scene [...]
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How do you design an experience for experience designers? Interaction10 was the third edition of an annual conference hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) that gathered the interaction design community to connect, educate, and inspire each other. Jennifer Bove, co-chair of Interaction10 together with Bill DeRouchey, describes the process of designing the experience [...]
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Interesting ideas on Conferences for Kids, Inflatable Multimedia, Holograms and more…
Via Trendhunter.com
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The times when you could pull off a successful conference by just gathering in the same room a speaker (good or bad), a bunch of chairs and some people are over. If it’s only about the content, you can now avoid going to an event by finding it on the web or reading the latest [...]
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