==Apologies for cross posting== You are invited to participate in a workshop run at the Edinburgh College of Art by the Branded Meeting Places Project. UBIQr 1 Workshop: Brands and Groups 19-20 June 2007, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh The Branded Meeting Places project is funded by the EPSRC-AHRC Design for the 21st Century Programme, and is run jointly a the University of Edinburgh (School of Architecture, Culture and Environment, Informatics and Institute for the Study of Science Technology and Innovation), and The Edinburgh College of Art. In this workshop we will focus on how groups use brands and branded spaces in their social encounters. What is a brand in this era of hyper-mobility, digital interconnectivity, local and global reconfigurations and sceptical consumerism? The workshop will also provide an opportunity to discuss and showcase innovative information and communications technologies that foreground issues of brands, groups and branded meeting places. (Please see the provisional programme below.) The workshop is free to attend, but participants will have to pay for their own accommodation on the night of the 19th of June. Accommodation (fairly basic, but en-suite, single or double hotel rooms) is available in Kenneth Mackenzie Hospitality Suite (7 Richmond Place EH8 9ST; 0131 651 2063; [EMAIL PROTECTED]), a short (15-minute) walk from the workshop venue. Other possibilities include Edinburgh First, the University's accommodation service, on 0131 651 2007, Edinburgh City Centre TravelInn, 82 Lauriston Place, EH3 9HZ 0870 990 6610, and farther afield, the Bruntsfield Hotel, 69 Bruntsfield Place EH10 4HH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Other accommodation can be found at To reserve a place at the workshop please contact as soon as possible Stacy Boldrick, the workshop organiser at VARIE, email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any questions about the content of the workshop. This is the first in a series of three workshop, the next ones will be on Branded Documents and Meetings, and Streets and Brandscapes regards James Stewart PROVISIONAL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME BRANDED MEETING PLACES This is the first AHRC/EPSRC-funded workshop of the Branded Meeting Places group. (For additional information about the workshop, including links to speakers, please click on 'details' next to the workshop title on the BMP homepage.) UBIQr 1 Workshop: Brands and Groups Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 June 2007 Venue: Evolution House, corner of West Port and Lady Lawson Street, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Edinburgh College of Art. TUESDAY 19 June 2007 12:30 Lunch 13:00-13:30 Introduction (Richard Coyne): Review of Branded Meeting Places project. 13:30-15:15 Session A: Brands Chair: James Stewart Tony Kent * Flagships brand spaces Eric Laurier * Of Coffee shops and motorways Isabelle Szmigin * Branding, identity and consumers 'One destination. The world in one night. 7 ways to spend one night out' 15:15-16:00 Coffee and demonstrations 16:00-17:45 Session B: Media and Community Chair: Mark Wright Sally Jane Norman * Theatres of individuation Celia Lury * Sociology of Brands Alessandro Aurigi * Policy and Design in the Augmented city 17:45-18:30 Demonstrations and discussions Dinner WEDNESDAY 20 June 2007 9:15-12:00 Session C: Groups, Brands and Ubiquitous Technologies Chair: Alan Dix Giulio Jacucci * Ubiquitous interaction Andy Crabtree * Mobile Play in the city space Katharine S. Willis * Encounters in the Mediated City Karen Martin and Arianna Bassol *Inbetweenness 12:00-13:00 Activity 13:00-14:00 Summary and Lunch All participants are requested to conduct a personal brand survey with a camera (on a mobile phone is fine). Before you come to the workshop please take pictures of the brands you use: places, institutions, things, apparel etc. You can send up the pictures or upload them to Flickr and send a link, and link to the flickr group Iammybrands. Alternatively send us another link to where they are and we will create an activity out of them. For an example see here Dr James Stewart Research centre for Social Sciences Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation University of Edinburgh t: +44 131 650 6392 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesks ***Mobile Phones, Cigarettes for the 21st Century*** |
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