conference

We are happy to launch the Lift12 ticketshop today! This 7th Swiss edition of Lift will happen on 22-24 February 2012 in Geneva. The event will consist in the usual two and a half days of talks, workshops, demos and social moments. More details will follow in the coming weeks on the content, as we are busy defining the event's focus and program.

Registration

Buy your Lift12 tickets at the early bird price. The ticket shop is now open, and tickets start at only 650chf for 60 days. Students and press/bloggers passes are also available, while one day tickets will be offered after the end of the early bird period.
Please note that to minimize food waste, we will again ask you to buy your meals separately so that we can know precisely how many we need to order.
» Lift12 tickets shop.

Help us design Lift12!

Join the September 13 workshop to design Lift12 with us. We will discuss the event's format, theme, sessions, and speakers. This workshop is a unique opportunity to have your say on how the event happens. Seating is limited to 40 participants to ensure we have a decent level of interaction, so hurry up and register for a nice discussion followed by drinks at our office!
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In the coming months, Nicolas will give several speeches related to his latest book "Les Flops Technologiques : Comprendre les échecs pour innover" (2011) about Technological Failures in Innovation. Meet him there:

- Aug. 30-31, 2011 - Aarhus, Denmark: Speech about Technological Failures at Next 2011 Conference

- Sept. 6, 2011 - Geneva, Switzerland: Lift @home Book reading : "Les Flops Technologiques"

- Sept. 15, 2011 - Nantes, France: Design critique at Ecole de Design de Nantes

- Sept. 23, 2011 - Lille, France: Speech about Design Fictions

- Oct. 27, 2011 - Zürich, Switzerland: Speech about Technological Failures in Innovation, “Fail Fast, Learn, Move On”, at Netzzunft Zürich

- Nov. 24, 2011 - Paris, France: Speech about Technological Failures in Innovation at CIO/Le Monde

This talk explores some of the issues that emerge around networked information-collecting objects in our public spaces, and to frame a taxonomy of such objects from the unobjectionable (due to local effect and a clear public good associated with them) to those that ought to be causing us significant concern (no public benefit, global impact, pernicious second-order effects).

Adam is a long-time friend of Lift, he shared his work with us on several occasions in Geneva, Marseille and Korea. Watch his previous Lift talks:
"Everyware: Further down the Rabbit Hole" Lift07
"The read/write City" Lift Asia 07
"The Long Here, the Big Now" Lift Asia 08

A leading researcher on globalization, global cities and new technologies Saskia Sassen discusses the current hype around smart cities. She reminds us that “It is the need to design a system that puts all that technology truly at the service of the inhabitants—and not the other way around.”

Want to get more information? Check these related articles:

A propos de S. Sassen et de « l’urbanisme open-source » sur Technogéographie (in French)

An interview with Saskia Sassen about "Smart cities" by Nicolas Nova

We are pleased to announce to the Lift community that we are organizing a mini-conference in Seoul, under the Lift@Home program.

DALSMA* (Digital Architecture and Large Scale Media Art) will consist of 6 talks by 6 speakers, selected from both the Industry and Academia, who work in South Korea in the field of architecture and media art. Topics covered will include digital facades, urban informatics, urban art, media art, generative architecture. The event will take place in Seoul, on Friday May 14th (7pm-10pm) in this fabulous pod:

The event will be free and a refreshment will be served. Take a look at he event's homeage and to register and secure your seat!

Looking forward to see you at DALSMA*
Best regards,

Lift@Home Seoul Team

The Lift team is helping other conferences with their program, advising on speakers and format. Daniel Kaplan (CEO of the FING, who brilliantly wrapped up Lift07), David Orban (of the Open Spime project) and Jean-Louis Fréchin (ENSCI and No Design) will be speaking at the Transformeurs 2009 event in Sierre on January 30 on the topic "Internet of things, internet of the future?"

The event will also feature workshops and start ups presentations in Pecha Kucha style! Check the event's homepage, and register to join us afterward for a ski week-end in Valais!

Dear LIFTers,

World Usability Day will take place on Thursday 13 November this year and I'm happy to announce that Telono is, once again, organizing a networking event in Geneva!

This year, for the first time, we will have several guest speakers eager to tell you about their experience of user-centred design in practice, as well as a demo of eye-tracking, followed by our traditional apéro.

To see the full program and to register, please go to:
http://www.telono.com/wud2008.htm

I hope to see you there & wish you all the best!

Florian.-

From April 2-4 more than 800 bloggers, netizens, and media creators will gather in Berlin for the 2nd edition of the Re:publica conference. The 2008-theme will be "the critical mass". In over 100 talks, panels and workshops the conference will address the social and cultural impact of blogs, wikis, and social networks and discuss social media that rely on the interaction between people. The conference will be held mostly in German. If you are in Berlin these you can register here.

Here’s some news: registration is now open for the event Going Solo which will take place in Lausanne on May 16th.

(I gave an open stage speech Thursday morning telling the story of how I came to organize such an event.)

I initially wanted to give LIFT attendees a special discount, but ended up doing more than that: why limit this to our community, when it is possible to spread the LIFT spirit to everyone?

Therefore, during this first week of registration (until Sunday), Going Solo will be 100 CHF less for everybody: 300CHF instead of the 400CHF early bird price. Don’t miss it, and register right away!