Lift10 talks

Using games beyond gaming

Alice Taylor commissions educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. Her talk describes how to use games beyond gaming.

Aubrey de Grey "Prospects for defeating aging altogether"

Aubrey de Grey explains why therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of typical 60-year-olds may well arrive within the next few decades, and also why ...
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Technology and Cultural Difference in China

How one can better and faster understand what is going on with technology when it comes to cultural differences? Based on cases studies in China involving search engines and ...
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Demo: Animal Superpowers

Animals have senses beyond human experience, they instinctively sense approaching tsunamis through low frequencies, communicate through pheromones or can navigate through magnetic ...
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MetaReciclagem

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 ...
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Wired for Anticipation

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 ...
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Open Stage: A sound designer describes his day

(including a short performance on stage) Creativity is stepping sideways sometimes.

Technological and social trends impacting politics in countries around the world.

Obama’s use of technology fundamentally changed the execution and management of political campaigns. From mobilizing a nation-wide community of volunteers to collecting millions ...
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Printing the internet

This is a talk about printing the internet out and about squirting it into things. About print-on-demand experiments (like Newspaper Club) and attempts to make physical products out of social network data (like DataDecs).

OhMyNews

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 ...
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Doomed to be forever young? A social archaeology of the 'digital natives'

Exit the adult scientist – here come the geeky teenagers, the rebellious juvenile hackers, the online children. From 1980s “computer kids” to today’s “digital ...
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Media, audiovisual content meetsthe digital universe:The Great Mashup

Panel about the evolution of digital content.

Post-privacy

Heller talks about the role of privacy in our society, the threats and potentials inherent to a new era where the notion of privacy itself is being redefined.

Greenpeace social media strategy and on-line campaigns

Presentation of how Greenpeace uses social media and digital technologies in their campaigns.

Demo: The ten design principles behind Mag+

Björn Jeffrey, from Bonnier, describes the prototyping of Mag+, a corporate collaborative research project about the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. ...
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YouTube’s Unfolding History

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 ...
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How and why are the current generation staying connected?

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 ...
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The Revolution is Most Definitely Mobilized - Mobiles in Democratic Participation. Debunking Hype and Assessing Reality

Katrin talks about how the proliferation of mobile phones has influenced how people participate in the politics of their countries. She discusses the so-called 'twitter ...
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Relaunch Capitalism! On Digitalisation, Public Sphere and Democratic Economy

In the 20th century, newspapers among other media formed and informed the masses. Then digitalisation made the news business tumble. As journalism always was more than the control ...
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Relaunch Capitalism! On Digitalisation, Public Sphere and Democratic Economy

In the 20th century, newspapers among other media formed and informed the masses. Then digitalisation made the news business tumble. As journalism always was more than the control ...
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Current trends in investment and entrepreneurship

The co-founder of Index Ventures (a venture capital investment firm famous for its investments in Skype, MySQL, and Betfair), Neil Rimer is on the board of organizations as ...
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Mutual privacy and online distributed social identities

Olivier Glassey examines the consequences of the dissolution of privacy in the digital age. Instead of seeing the current privacy earthquake as a danger to be prohibited, he shows how we should open our eyes to its emancipatory potentials.

Open Stage: A Day in the Life of the tech-nerd-shop that brought us the Arduino

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

Open Stage: A day in the life of a designer working with scientific researchers

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

Open Stage: Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn

Fabian Hemmert, PhD Student at Deutsche Telekom, presents his latest projects in the field of tangible computing.

Open Stage: A day in the life of a podiatrist

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

Open Stage: A Day in the Life of the Head of Communications at the Salvation Army

The tool he uses, the people he meets and the passion that drives him. Doing good and spreading the word.

Open Stage: A day in the life of an innovation enabler

Exploring the similarities between design and innovation processes and existing synergies.

Winning in Digital

In this session Richard Murton from Accenture Interactive, a group focused on helping clients achieve agile intelligent marketing, shares his insights from talking to global ...
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Doomed to be forever young? A social archaeology of the 'digital natives'

Computer culture entertains the myth of being a thing of the future. Actually, it’s been entertaining it for sixty years now. In order to understand the network society and its ...
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Prospects for defeating aging altogether

It may seem premature to be discussing the elimination of human aging as a cause of death, when so little progress has yet been made in even postponing it. However, two facts ...
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Technology and Cultural Difference in China

How one can better and faster understand what is going on with technology when it comes to cultural differences? Based on cases studies in China involving search engines and ...
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Media, audiovisual content meets the digital universe:The Great Mashup

Post-Privacy

The dissolution of privacy in the digital age shatters personal and social securities. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Privacy as we understand it is a recent historical ...
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Greenpeace social media strategy and on-line campaigns

Presentation about how Greenpeace uses social media and digital technologies in their campaigns.

Demo: The ten design principles behind Mag+

The ten design principles behind Mag+ (from BERG)

Demo: Animal Superpowers

Animals have senses beyond human experience, they instinctively sense approaching tsunamis through low frequencies, communicate through pheromones or can navigate through magnetic ...
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MetaReciclagem

Once a land with little access to information technology, Brazil has seen a fast growth in the last decade as both commercial internet increased and government “digital ...
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Wired for Anticipation

Contemplating the future is a distinctively human ability. Language isn't unique to humans; neither is tool use. What makes us human is our ability to look ahead and puzzle ...
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YouTube’s Unfolding History

In 2005, YouTube was launched as a basic videosharing website. It grew rapidly, and shortly thereafter became a focal point for hype about Web 2.0 and the ‘amateur ...
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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 ...
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Mutual privacy and online distributed social identities

The massively popular use of social computing challenges the traditional perceptions and boundaries of privacy. Hybrid forms of private/public communication spaces in social ...
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Open Stage: Day in the Life of tinker

A Day in the Life of tinker, interactive product design studio based in London.

Open Stage: An industrial designer who reports back on his experience working with "researchers"

An industrial designer who reports back on his experience working with "researchers", exploring the two different paradigms/related stereotypes. Researcher, designer, whatever?

Demo: Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn

Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn

Open Stage: Description of someone who works with people's feet and for whom this is the dream job

Description of someone who works with people's feet and for whom this is the dream job. 15'000 Pairs of feet equal 150'000 Toes!

Open Stage: A sound designer describes his day

A sound designer describes his day (including a short performance on stage) Creativity is stepping sideways sometimes

Open Stage: A Day in the Life of the Head of Communications at the Salvation Army

A Day in the Life of the Head of Communications at the Salvation Army: the tool he uses, the people he meets and the passion that drives him. Doing good and spreading the word

Demo: Exploring the similarities between design and innovation processes

Exploring the similarities between design and innovation processes and existing synergies.

Technological and social trends impacting politics

Obama’s use of technology fundamentally changed the execution and management of political campaigns. From mobilizing a nation-wide community of volunteers to collecting millions ...
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How to win in digital

Over the last decade, marketing as a discipline has taken steps to become a more strategic and value-added organizational function. It is, after all, the second or third largest ...
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Printing the internet out

This will be a talk about printing the internet out and about squirting it into things. About print-on-demand experiments (like Newspaper Club) and attempts to make physical ...
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The Revolution is Most Definitely Mobilized - Mobiles in Democratic Participation. Debunking Hype and Assessing Reality

Katrin will be talking about how the proliferation of mobile phones has influenced how people participate in the politics of their countries. She will discuss the so-called ...
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The Transition from Broadcast to Multiplatform for a public service broadcaster: getting attention and measuring success

In 2008, Channel 4 Education moved its budget from £6m a year spent on television for a morning schedule broadcast, to £6m a year spent on media that would more effectively ...
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Welcome to Lift10

Welcome speech by Lift founders Laurent Haug and Nicolas Nova. Jean-Pierre Greff, Director of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) will introduce Lift Experience program (in French).

OhMyNews: the story and future of citizen journalism

From its start in February of 2000, OhmyNews was amongst the first citizen journalism organizations in the world, and remains the most successful. With more than 60,000 ...
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