Social
Spaces

Thursday the 20th Creative Class organizes a Pecha Kucha in Hasselt. Together with Design Platform Limburg, our research group Social Spaces supports this event. A lot of inspiring speakers will be there from very different disciplines (design, architecture, new media,…). When the list of speakers is online, I will let you know, but please note this date already in your agenda. The presenters are preparing!
http://www.creativeclass.be/activiteit?a=1033

In May a conference on Inclusive Design finds place in beautiful Norway, called Innovation for all. This might be an interesting conference for all of you who are interested in including different groups in society in design and generating innovative business outputs via this process.

If Social Spaces would have been made in 1996, it would look like this: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=8&url=www.socialspaces.be

With thanks to @nielshendriks for this suggestion

The latest weeks we have been exploring the potential of an Internet of Things for memories and – by extension – for dementia. Tales of Things, a collaboration project between five universities, is developing a project very close to our interests in this perspective. ‘Tales of Things’ “(…) encourages users to ‘tag’ objects with digital media using the sort of technology found in Oyster Cards and bar codes. Users can upload an image of the object and an associated memory in the form of text, audio or video to the project’s website – talesofthings.com – or using a dedicated iPhone application”.
http://machineslikeus.com/news/project-explores-internet-things.

Picture by Kurt Stockman, Timelab, Ghent

Via Danny Leen I received the link to this video. Tom Wujec explains how he uses dry spaghetti, tape and a marshmallow to gather people in an intense collaboration process. Social design with fun ingredients!