SLOW - Can we use technology to reclaim control over how we and our organizations manage time?

Lift France 11 Session

July 8, 2011 - 14:00

Technologies make our lives and work faster, accelerate economic and social rhythms. They bring about constant sollicitations, infobesity, and the blurring of boundaries between work and leisure. Individuals as well as organizations are trying to regain control over time. How can we achieve this?


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Contemplative Computing

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, USA)

Information technologies today interrupt and distract us, dividing our attention across a range of activities and devices. This feels like an inevitable state of affairs, but I ...
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Feeding Milano: a human platform to regain the meaning of slowness

Anna Meroni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Food, in Latin cultures, means conviviality, pleasure, taking care of the others and being loved. “Slow food” actually is not so much about cooking and eating slower, than ...
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Ecotech myths and lessons from the past

Kris De Decker (Low-Tech Magazine, Spain)

The present-day approach towards a sustainable society is doomed to fail. The focus on sophisticated technology - electric and hybrid cars, energy-efficient devices, solar panels ...
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