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We are now publishing the Lift France 10 videos: Check out Ivo Gormley inspiring speech about the relationship between social innovation and digital technologies.

Ivo Gormley "Us Now" (Lift France10 EN)
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The BBC just featured a short clip on one of Ivo's project, the good gym.

Ivo Gormley is a filmmaker and anthropologist working as head of media at Think Public, an award-winning agency focused on using design to improve service experiences in the public sector. In 2009 Ivo released Us Now, a much acclaimed film that demonstrates how mass collaboration online is changing the way we organise our lives and relate to other people.

Ivo's latest movie Playmakers explores the emerging area of pervasive games, the implications of reclaiming play into the public domain and the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, organism, mailing list and website.

Changing Innovation - The end of IT. In addition to 21 years culminating in a senior position in the BBC Euan has had five years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most of this wired-up world of work and how businesses can prepare themselves for the challenges and the opportunities it represents.

What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture and enable a multiplicity of knowledges. Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.

Lee Bryant describes to what extent we reach a new culture ecosystem echoes with old traditions of trade, business and socialisation while the Twentieth century was all about mass market and mass production.

Laurent Haug, fondateur des conférences Lift présente le programme de ce premier jour de l'édition 2009 de Lift à Genève.

LIFT09 is almost over. Again I enjoyed every last bit of it. Inspiring talks, great discussions, new friends and a travel plan (from Moscow to Beijing on a train - but not in winter ;).

The last couple of days we have collected (tagged and placed them on a map) a couple of places related to LIFT. You will find some of the places that the speakers mentioned: Patrick Gyger’s Maison d’Ailleurs, one of the green “no parking zones” in New York that Natalie Jeremijenko showed us or the Digital Water Pavilion in Zaragoza that Carlo Ratti spoke about.

We have also collected some places and stories for you to explore if you’re staying in Geneva another day. You could take a walk to the longest bench in the world and see if the official chestnut tree is already budding (which would mean winter’s over in Geneva) or maybe you’d like to kick back for an hour and relax in the sauna and hammam on Lac Leman or buy some good Swiss chocolate at Geneva’s best chocolate maker.

You can find the complete list of LIFT09 places here: http://www.tagcrumbs.com/placemarks/tagged/lift09. Feel free to add your findings with the LIFT09 tag as well.

One of Lift Conference’s special treats is the Lift Experience, a series of projects and installations from artist and designers all over the world. Discover each installation on this blog, and check out the Lift experience page for more information!

The department Interactive/Media/Design at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) from The Netherlands developed a Social Brainstorm Table, because paper is the start of great new things like innovations, conversations, designs, etc. You can doodle, draw and write on the top sheet while having a conversation and when you're done, tear it of, hang it on a wall! The tables consist of approximately 4,000 sheets of paper, so plenty of room for thought. Over time it transforms from active height to a more lounging height, so the more ideas you generate, the sooner you can relax! Meeting people, sharing your newly gained insights and ideas at LIFT has never been easier and more fun.

Created in partnership with ModoVanGelder.nl

For more information please contact Marcel Kampman at m.kampman@kabk.nl

Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path compiled some of the best ideas she has heard at Lift Asia in a blog post. She wrote a nice recap of the most important things that have been said:

[...] ON VISUALIZATION: By capturing and visualizing multiple streams of real-time data, we are able to show what IS happening rather than what WAS happening, prompting questions we didn’t know we had. (Stamen)

ON THE PROBLEMS WITH CASH: With cash-based systems, it’s the poorest people, those who take little bits from the ATM at the time, who bear the highest transaction costs. (David Birch) [...]

ON SUSTAINABILITY: What if devices were made to be worn IN not out, feel like an investment that’s made to last, age gracefully and have timeless features? (Raphael Grignani) [...]

ON ROBOTS: If we have a limited vision of what robots should be, our ability to create robots will be limited. The debate about humanoid vs. non-humanoid robots is moot — there’s room in the taxonomy for all kinds of robots. The most evolutionary robots will be “Homo Robotus:” Robots that are a part of a person, amplifying the person’s body and mind. (Bruno Bonnell)

ON ENVISIONING THE FUTURE: The ability to create unconstrained visions of the future lives within us all. To tap into it, we must escape from the fetters of legacies, assumptions and technology-driven innovation. We must return to the wonderful world of make believe. (From my talk on “Experiencing the Future Through Make Believe” during the Open Afternoon)

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Well, I am up early and ready to pack my laptop away for the long journey. My printer is playing up, so I have carefully copied the ticket number into my notebook. I felt that really I should be doing it with a pencil stub, carefully licking the lead before writing each number.

I have chosen my workshops for tomorrow. I thought it would be hard, how would I choose between so many interesting titles. But then it was easy ...

Creativity Utopia Workshop

"Let us start with the truth, the naked screaming truth. The creative do not care about creativity, they simply create... "

Yes, I like that idea. I've been immersed in creativity since October (before then I didn't know it was anything to do with me).

But then, I read,

"... For me the past year has been one of exploding tabus. Yes, exploding tabus. Your mileage may differ, but I on my part have found no other way to deal with tabus. ... "

Hmm, I love destruction :)~

" ... Utopia, on the other hand is the divine soup from which our dreams are made of. Utopia is the primordial soup of imagination and limitation. Utopia is paradoxland uncharted! ... "

... primordial ...

"... In this workshop we will explore tabus, utopias and forget creativity."

I can do that!

And after that I read,

Industrial IdeaProduction or «Why is "Dare to Share" the key to reliable innovation?»

Samuel Mueller = "hopelessly infected with the idea virus and eager to recklessly spread it around."

Who could resist?