The world-wide mobility explosion is an enormous challenge for designers. How can we convince people that current forms of continuous mobility are no longer ecologically sustainable? Should mobility simply be made unaffordably expensive? Or can we design viable alternatives?
Read the report on the evening by John Thackara at the
Doors of Perception blog.
In March De Balie will organise the international ElectroSmog festival for sustainable immobility, in collaboration with an extensive network of partner organisations. As a prelude to the festival we present a showcase of design proposals, practical projects and design-ideas that should persuade us to start moving less.
With on-line and on-site contributions by:
John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, the international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design, will highlight design projects that try to tackle the question of mobility reduction.
www.DoorsOfPerception.com http://twitter.com/johnthackaraCostas Bissas, researcher at Distance Lab, Forres (Scotland), will present the specific focus of his organisation on networking rural and remote area’s.
The relevant question for the ElectroSmog festival is whether we can live in a sustainable way in the green and still connect to the rest of the world, culturally and economically?
www.DistanceLab.orgDavid van Gent is a managing consultant for IBM on Learning Strategy & Technology, Virtual Worlds, Serious Gaming & Web 2.0. He will talk about and demo the Virtual Offices project of IBM, using open SIM technology (similar to second life):
( see for instance this
CNN news-report )
Eric Kluitenberg, head of the media department of De Balie and initiator of the ElectroSnog festival, will present the concept behind the festival. Besides exploring the critique of mobility theoretically, ElectroSmog will also address the issue practically. All international presentations in the festival will be realised by means of tele-connections between the different international locations.
www.ElectroSmogFestival.net
Jeroen van Schaick, PHD researcher on 'Time-space and urban design' at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology
provides feedback, comparing design proposals with actual finding from
research on mobility patterns.
www.bk.tudelft.nl/jvanschaick
Please
note: The presentation of the project “In the Air”, by the Medialab
Prado, Madrid, “a visualisation project which aims to make visible the
microscopic and invisible agents of Madrid´s air (gases, particles,
pollen, diseases, etc), to see how they perform, react and interact
with the rest of the city.”, has been shifted to the festival in March.
www.intheair.esLIVE & INTERACTIVE
This program will be streamed live on the internet - for details please refer to:
www.DeBalie.nl/live (Replays after live broadcast)
Chat with us and other viewers at De Balie online chatroom:
www.DeBalie.nl/chatYou can also watch this live event together with other avatars at the
Meta.Live.Nu Roof-Theatre in the virtual world Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amsterdam/71/122/55Follow our Tweets:
http://twitter.com/DeBalieLivedate | Thursday 21 January 2010, 20.30 hrs. C.E.T.
language | English
entrance | free
tekst uitklappen [ + ]
