PROGRAM

The program consisted of a mixture of interactive sessions, keynote lectures, workshops and leisure activities. The full program booklet is available for download.



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KEYNOTES

Tobie Kerridge

Tobie is a researcher and PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University and a visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. His research explores how design methods can be extended to provide individuals with creative ownership of technology. His thesis reflects upon the novel contributions of speculative design as a method for public engagement with science and technology.

His presentation will be on one of his research projects; Material Beliefs. This project takes emerging biomedical and cybernetic technology out of labs and into public spaces. The project focuses on technologies which blur the boundaries between our bodies and materials, and how design as a tool for public engagement can be used to stimulate discussion about the value of these forms of hybridity.

www.tobiekerridge.co.uk - www.materialbeliefs.com

Marianne Graves Petersen

Marianne Graves Petersen is associate professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Marianne is a research associate professor and project manager of a number of projects conducting research into future homes. She is interested in pushing the limits of interaction design, all the time with a focus on designing to improve the quality of life of people. Throughout her research career she has worked in close collaboration with industrial partners such as Bang & Olufsen and Danfoss. Recently she received an award from Microsoft Research in Cambridge funding research into ways of Supporting Playful Experiences in Everyday Life at Home. In addition, she works as an independent consultant advising companies on innovation, user experience, user-centered design and interaction design.

Her talk 'Pushing the Limits of Interaction Design' will discuss how interactive technology is becoming an integral part of more and more aspects of our everyday life.
We stage ourselves through the technology we use, we flirt through technology, we live with and through technology in many ways. We spend endless hours in settings shaped by interaction designers, I type this abstract chained to my laptop. As interaction designers we heavily influence the conditions of work, home life, creativity and flirt - how do we take on this responsibility now and in the future?

Curriculum Vitae of Marianne Graves Petersen

Peter-Paul Verbeek

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is professor of philosophy of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and director of the international master program Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society. He is also an editor of the journal Technè: Research in Philosophy and Technology and a member of the board of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. As from 2009, Verbeek is a member of the 'Young Academy', which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Verbeeks research focuses on the social and cultural roles of technology and the ethical and anthropological aspects of human-technology relations. He recently published the book What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design (Penn State University Press, 2005), in which he elaborates an analysis of how technologies mediate human actions and experiences, with applications to industrial design. He also co-edited the volume User Behavior and Technology Design: Shaping Sustainable Relations between Consumers and Technologies (Springer, 2006) about the interaction between technology and behavior, and its relevance to technology design and environmental policy.
(source: utwente.nl)

His talk will be on 'Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things'; which will also be the title of his latest book that he is finishing at this moment.