I should have done this earlier but…… I’d like to officially introduce some new members to INCITE. Goetz Bachmann, Britt Hatzius and Sebastian Olma are all working with Nina on the Understanding European cultural intermediaries project. They have just finished interviewing thirty designers in two European countries, Amsterdam and Helsinki, for the initial part of the project. See blog posts below. They recently took over one of the seminar rooms in Goldsmith’s Warmington Tower to make mess with post-it notes, big boards and images to start to analytically work through their findings. Nina and Goetz took some of these ideas across to Intel’s PAPR group and they form the basis of their presentation at Ubiquitous Media, Asian Transformations conference at the University of Tokyo.
July 13th, 2007
The proceedings of EPIC 2006 are here.
October 10th, 2006
My new favo(u)rite EPIC-urean, Ame Elliott.
November 15th, 2005
[EPIC, in situ] So, right in the middle of a pitched post-talk conversation, during which many forms of politics were disavowed (against the concerted effort by Nina Wakeford-Genevieve Bell to force their avowal), and during which many forms of CSCW were avowed, there was a question about philosophy (also in some quarters disavowed), and suddenly there was a person with a microphone talking about Wittgenstein. Whoa. Apparently, Wittgenstein might have said, were he here, and were he alive, that theory should be used carefully, and is easily abused. [other celebrity appearances of note: Donna Haraway (3), Michel de Certeau, Karen D. Knorr-Cetina, George Marcus, Bill Gates, Lucy Suchman, Dick Buchanon, Stafford Beer, and Patti Smith]
November 15th, 2005