Frontiers of interaction 2009

Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post about Frontier of Interactions 2009, a conference founded by Lift06 speakers Matteo Penzo whose fifth edition just happened in Roma, Italy.

Frontiers of Interaction http://frontiersofinteraction.it is an event born around the interaction design topics that, since 2005, has become the top notch innovation conference in Italy; its unusual format that mixes music, interactive and artistic installations, demo sites and speeches makes it the de-facto home for makers and innovators: talents moving between industry and academia, early adopters of enabling technologies and geeky gadgets.

Each year we choose a different file rouge and through the years we've been fortunate enough to anticipate trends and dynamics about multimodal interfaces, web 2.0 and online virtual worlds and we traveled through territories like advanced mobility, robotics for entertainment, artificial intelligence, spime networks.

After three years spent in Milan Frontiers of Interaction started a three years long tour that - in 2008 - took us in Turin (World Design Capital) while Rome hosted the 2009 edition, held at the marvelous Acquario Romano building; this is the candidate venue for our Frontiers 2010, which is going to be held early on July.

Frontiers is an hybrid show, which attracts international speakers, inspires the national talents and creates a bridge between Europe and Silicon Valley; in the last 5 editions we hosted friends like Bruce Sterling (Wired), Adam Greenfield (Nokia), Nicolas Nova (LIFT Conference), Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo), Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University), Bruno Giussani (TED) and speakers from the Academics such as Tokio University, MIT, Fraunhofer Institute or UCLA.

All the 2009 edition videos and the "interviews from the balcony" (which entertain our public during the speaker change) are available for free (partly in Italian, partly in English) at http://frontiers.dolmedia.tv.