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Stories
Lift 11 Session
February 4, 2011 - 11:30Stories from people with amazing lives and projects. Meet the guy who puts his life online to escape the FBI, an entrepreneur who studies the impact of algorithms on our lives, and the initiator of project dream school who wants to design a new and better place to teach and learn.
Presentations
Giving away your privacy to escape the US terrorist watch list
Hasan Elahi (University of Maryland, USA)Hasan tells us his incredible story: he was suspected of terrorism by the FBI by mistake, and ended up living totally in public to protect himself from surveillance. His talk ...
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Reinventing schools - project Dream School
Marcel Kampman (happykamping, Project Dream School, Mastermundo Creative Gathering, Netherlands)What if you could reinvent a school from scratch? What would you change, how would the technologies that reinvent education impact the construction and design of the building? ...
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An update on the Large Hadron Collider project
Tara Shears (CERN, UK)The Large Hadron Collider, one of science's most ambitious project ever, is producing headlines a few kilometers from Geneva. Tara Shears will give us an update on the recent ...
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Open Stage: How to remix architecture?
Attila Bujdoso (Kitchen Budapest, KÉK - Contemporary Architecture Centre, Hungary)It is surprising how new concepts arisen from technological developments have so little impact on the architectural practice. Deeply inspired by restricting but at the same time ...
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