Lift conference

Gunter Pauli, from the "Zero Emissions Research Initiative" gives a vibrant speech about how nature provides an important model to find solutions to the ecological crisis. His call for action is followed by disruptive and inspiring examples ranging from battery-less devices to biomimetism. Date: 20/06/2009, english Distributed by Tubemogul.

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, founder of Tinkerlondon, describes her day in her design studio. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Oh Yeon-ho, the founder of OhmyNews, speaks about the organization's genesis and its principle of "every citizen is a reporter." He also addresses address what makes citizen journalism a successful model so far in Korea, what barriers it faces in the future, and what the next steps are for OhmyNews, both organizationally and technologically. Distributed by Tubemogul.

In this session Richard Murton from Accenture Interactive, a group focused on helping clients achieve agile intelligent marketing, share his insights from talking to global companies on the challenges that the digital era has brought with it. He offers his 5 point theory on what leading organisations are doing to prepare themselves for the continued evolution in digital, maximize return on investment and ensure they are equipped to be successful. Distributed by Tubemogul.

MetaReciclagem was created in 2002, first as a collective in São Paulo, Brazil, focused on remanufacturing used computers, installing free and open source software and delivering them to social projects. Soon MetaReciclagem became an open network with hundreds of members in all regions of Brazil working with critical appropriation of ICTs. Through a strong emphasis on DIY and low tech, all sorts of used equipment are seen as instrumental, educational and artistic source materials that can be disassembled and remixed, giving youngsters access to infrastructure, networking, knowledge and opportunities, working towards a future interconnected and a common-based economy. Distributed by Tubemogul.

During the Lift conference, a team from frog design (the global innovation firm) has roved amongst attendees, presentations and hallway discussions. Why? They acted like anthropologists, studying the Lift attendees in their “natural habitat” to find ways of improving the future Lift Experience. Frog used a number of methods to gather insights, and looked for some volunteers to self-document their conference experience. These volunteers participated in a special brainstorming workshop. Results of this first-time ever “Lift under the design microscope” program are shared by Elizabeth Roche and Adam Richardson at the end of the conference. Distributed by Tubemogul.

How and why are the current generation staying connected? Money restricts the tools we choose to stay connected. Yet it cannot keep us away from the internet. We are connected all of the time to a worldwide web that does not sleep or take breaks, the spread of information is instantaneous. Social networks have absorbed an overwhelming proportion of the young population, which has thoroughly incorporated this new and constantly evolving connectivity into their everyday lives. What is really going on? Distributed by Tubemogul.

Jamais talks about foresight from three different perspectives: aspirational foresight as a way of setting challenges and goals for ourselves; evaluative foresight as a way of testing our strategies; and anticipatory foresight as a kind of civilizational immune system, sensitizing ourselves to the disruptive changes ahead. Distributed by Tubemogul.

An industrial designer reports back on his experience working with "researchers", exploring the two different paradigms/related stereotypes. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Exploring the similarities between design and innovation processes and existing synergies. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Animals have senses beyond human experience, they instinctively sense approaching tsunamis through low frequencies, communicate through pheromones or can navigate through magnetic fields. Chris Woebken and team believe reality is tuneable and developed a series of sensory enhancements as experiential prototypes to satisfy children’s curiosity. Can you retrain lost senses and instincts? Can you create an experience of feeling like an animal, even as tiny as an ant? Distributed by Tubemogul.

Description of someone who works with people's feet and for whom this is the dream job. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Creativity is stepping sideways sometimes... Distributed by Tubemogul.

This presentation tells the story of YouTube’s transformation from simple videosharing service to shambolic media giant, outlines its cultural significance, and speculates as to what its unfolding history might tell us about the future of participatory culture online. Distributed by Tubemogul.