Hi all, Just wanted to announce a small conference that might be of interest to some of you. (Its not related to my day job). Some of you may already know about it, but if not...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- geeKyoto 2008 Living In The Changed World 10:00 - 16:30 - Saturday 17th May 2008. Conway Hall, London. £20. We broke the world. Now what? Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we'll live in it. geeKyoto 2008 is a cross-discipline event, targeted at everybody with an interest in the world we live in. Speaking we have: * Adrian Hon - ARG Games Designer, (http://www.sixtostart/ & http://mssv.net/) * Christian Nold - Artist (http://www.softhook.com) * Gavin Starks - Website (http://blog.co2.dgen.net/) * Alex Haw - Architect * Ben Saunders - Explorer, Speaker (http://www.bensaunders.com/) * DIY Kyoto * Richard Sandford - Futurelab * Adam Thorpe - Vexed Generation & Design Against Crime (Central St. Martins) * Emma Mulqueny - UK GovWeb * Mitchell Sava - PolicyWonk * James Smith - Do The Green Thing * Bryony Worthington We will follow the event with a social meetup nearby. We are also in discussion with the organisers of 4Good, The festival of social innovation and 4IP, Channel 4's new innovations fund to find ways to progress the ideas and conversations that start at geeKyoto. Tickets are available at http://www.geekyoto.com/ geeKyoto 2008 is being supported by: Proboscis is a not-for-profit artist-led studio which combines artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethos: we work across disciplines and practices - with associate artists, writers, curators, critics, designers, technologists, filmmakers, scientists and theorists - to explore social, cultural and creative issues. Other supporters to be announced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Mark. --- Mark Simpkins Technical Project Manager, BBC Vision (Multi Platform Productions) e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m: 07855 365 481 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
