I write from Edinburgh, after finishing a 2 week workshop called convivio 2006. The theme of the workshop was 'Technology, enjoying it or enduring it?' Me and a bunch of other attendees were part of the 'Bandwagon' atelier. We designed a system which helped the rate any performance, of the festival(the context here was the Edinburgh fest) by the audience with the help of a special haptic device called the 'star'. As always I managed to bungle while handling Silvio's(our atelier leader)mac, so there were awkard moments for me during the presentation. By now I think I have lost the nerve of feeling awkward during the presentation, because I seem to be doing it so often, and especially during handling a presentation device.Other than this regular goofups, I found my stay here for convivio very satisfying and have met many interesting people and attended many intense lectures, the focus being on technology-user centric design-ethnography-prototyping and the usual interaction design jargon types. A very fruitful and exciting time indeed.
key topics-
Edinburgh art fest
fringe fest
Scotland
UK
Speckled computing, Prof DK Arvind
crowd study, Kyntia
bridge between physical and digital
space-as horizontal and vertical
creativity and children- Jean Baptiste- the facist prototyping design teacher
Dr Ingve Sundblad, Swedish tech design guru, director of convivio- movie- the kitchen stories
and so much of learning...
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did you happen to attend the fringe festival? i ask cause my cousin acted there - and i'd like to see what the audience thought of him.
Ananth Gopal is his name - played the killer of lincon
dude, as i remember: your presentations were most looked forward to and with reason . way to go !!
i know u must be loving it..
btw how was lille pres!
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