I will be chairing the 'Interactions' thread at the InterSections conference in NewcastleGateshead (in the north-east of England) next week. The conference, subtitled 'design know-how for a new era', is a collaboration between Dott 07 (announcement on its site), Northumbria University School of Design (event listing on its site), and the Design Council (event listing on its site), and ties into the Designs of the time: Dott 07 Festival, and will take place at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, NewcastleGateshead.
The conference is lead programmed by my colleague Kevin McCullagh and promises to be the most significant design conference in the UK since SuperHumanism in 2001. See his Welcome post on the InterSections conference Weblog, which I was involved in setting up. (Considered comments in response to blog posts are welcomed. And if you have your own blog you can also 'trackback' to posts on which you want to comment.) I publicised the event quite extensively a few months back, and I am pleased to note that a number of my colleagues from the UK, Europe and the US are also attending (some have listed themselves on the Upcoming.org event entry), and I hope we can create the kind of smart, thoughtful discussion I have found over the last ten years at many conferences in the US and Europe. For better or worse the conference sold out about a month ago, though I am aware of one return that is for sale...My seminar sessions are 'Designing interactions, media or experiences?' with Daljit Singh of Digit London; Durrell Bishop of Lucky Bite; and Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates, and we will be asking 'What do designers from different backgrounds and who are designing interactions to different ends, consider to be their core skills?'; and 'Can good design be 'co-created'?' with Future Cities Project director Austin Williams; Dr Lynne Maher, Head of Innovation Practice at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement; and Joe Heapy of Engine, and we will be asking 'What has design got to learn from the open-source software movement and 'wiki-nomics'? and 'While everyone is a designer, isn't it the job of professional designers to champion good design?'. See the full programme and the list of speakers.
Read on at Spy: Panels: InterSections conference
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