Downing College, Cambridge.
Enter festival.
April 26
16:15-17:45
PANEL 4
TOOLSHIFT/MINDSHIFT
New environments & new models.
Do new tools foster new forms of participation?
Chair: Rob van Kranenburg (Bricolabs, Experience Design)
Introduction: Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
Keynote: Stephen Heppell (Heppell.net)
Respondent: Matt Ratto (Bricolabs)
Respondent: Sean Dodson (Guardian)
New tools foster new forms of participation and new environments. Business units in possibly disruptive techologies as RFID do not longer see 'pilots' as productive ways of relating procedural experience with scaling onto larger environments or engendering new ones. The operational landscape is simply changing too fast. The academic output of papers and text is rapidly becoming problematic in its capacities to underly and steer the way in which formal policy, informal networks and everyday practices interrelate. In creative practice the loop of concept-scenario-prototype is slowly becoming replaced by rapid prototyping models, hardware possibilities taking the the role of the concept phase. New generations of interaction and industrial designers, artists, journalists, and political activists are informed by the practice of theory, not by theoretical axioms, manifestos or dogmas. Can these new environments engendered by new tools be facilitated by existing structures and mindsets? Or do they set forth a mindshift that will be as disruptive as pervasive technologies?
