Videos per edition

The Future of Social Media

Eleonore — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:36 +0100

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.

What role can designers play

Yujin Choi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:40:24 +0200

What role can designers play in shaping our technological future?

James Auger, from the Auger-Loizeau design studio, presents various examples and cases of critical and speculative design removed from the commercial standpoint. His projects in robotics, implants and mobile services, should be seen as provocative and discussion-generating pieces.

Is there such a thing as Government 2.0? (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:52:14 +0200

Is there such a thing as Government 2.0?

Olivier Glassey examines to what extent the notion of a "Government 2.0" is valid or only a buzzword. He uncovers thepotential transformations hiding behind it and question whether "2.0" really applies to government.

The Future of Fake (FR)

Yujin Choi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:26:58 +0200

Fake products are certainly an important trend from the last twenty years. Trendbüro analyst Jörg Jelden describes why fakes are so successful and more importantly what they do differently as well what brands can learn from the fake industry.

Who has no knife may not eat pineapples (FR)

Laurent Haug — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:51:37 +0100

Who has no knife may not eat pineapples, an off-topic tour d'horizon on the literacy of cutting

Felix Koch and Fabian Kalker share their insights about "cutting cultures" and how observing the usage of knives reveal interesting social trend of our society. They tackle for instance the aversion to risk or the loss of a certain food culture.

Design Thinking

Yujin Choi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:14:24 +0200

Fabio Sergio, Design and User experience strategist and creative director at frog design, focuses his presentation on Design Thinking and its role in creating habitable and desirable futures. He shows various examples to explain how people-centred design goes beyond usage or consumption and should be about culture and seeing people how people react to things within their own culture.

Cameroon : Lies, mariage and the Internet (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:24:47 +0200

Yaoundé-based sociologist Baba Wamé gives a stunning overview of how the Web has been appropriated by cameroonian women. More specifically, he shows how email and IM have been turned into on-line dating tools. He then raise raise awareness on the dangers of such practices for the women of his country.

Creative communities

Yujin Choi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:35:28 +0200

Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.

The Twentieth Century was wrong (FR)

pinkbike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:44:48 +0100

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.

Memoires of a magnificent future (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:06:19 +0200

Memoires of a magnificent future: Flying cars and the shape of things to come.

As the director of the Swiss museum of science-fiction, Patrick Gyger has access to a large variety of documentation concerning the past representation of the future. In his Lift09 talk, he revisits these visions and describes the reasons why they fail to materialize.

What role can designers play? (FR)

Yujin Choi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:33:01 +0200

What role can designers play in shaping our technological future?

Is there such a thing as Government 2.0?

Yujin Choi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:28:20 +0200

Update on Wikimedia Foundation (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:22:04 +0200

Florence Devouard, who was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board till July 2008, gives a quick update of the situation at Wikipedia. She shows the recent evolution and initiative of the collaborative on-line encyclopedia.

How the Web was Born (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:29:01 +0200

How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe

Web veteran and CERN PR James Gillies tells us his perspective on the history of the Web. He shows the backstage vision from an insider's perspective of what used to be a "vague but exciting" idea that became the World Wide Web around the early 90s.

The Twentieth Century was wrong

Yujin Choi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:57:09 +0200

Another kind of online survey

Yujin Choi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:32:51 +0200

Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?

The role of design in sustainable development (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:11:46 +0200

The role of design in sustainable development

Oriol Pascual from Enviu Innovation Lab in Rotterdam describes several projects and initiatives that show the role of design in the creation of innovative solutions for environmental or social issues. In particular he focuses on his studio's work with regards to new sources of electricity production such as the generation of electricity through a dance floor.

Design Thinking (FR)

Yujin Choi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:16:52 +0200

The Sensable City

Yujin Choi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:33:18 +0200

Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, shows various projects he and his lab conducted around the theme of sensed data (mobile phone, flickr pictures) and how they allow to reveal new information layer on top of urban space and or lead to new experience for citizens.

The Recurring Failure of Holy Grails

Yujin Choi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:19:59 +0200

Lift conference editorial director Nicolas Nova revisits technological failures from the past ranging from the videophone to the intelligent fridge. He then describes the reasons behind them and shows that failures can be turned into successes as shown by the videophone, which has now resurfaced on platforms such as Skype.

Learning to play with Tomorrow (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:32:06 +0200

Anab Jain, who is an independent designer and film maker from India, talks about "design futurescaping", which is using design methods like storytelling, experience prototyping, making scenarios tangible, and talking to people on a daily basis, to inspire and influence prototypes for the near future.

Lift09 introduction (FR)

pinkbike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:19:28 +0100

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

The Mozilla Project

Yujin Choi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:56:38 +0200

The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network

Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.

Globalism, Mobiles, and The Cloud (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:16:49 +0200

Juliana Rotich, an author, blogger and digital activist with Global Voices Online in Kenya, talks about citizen journalism in African countries. Starting from web examples, she then describes the value of mobile applications in this domain. Her presentation gives a broad overview of the issues at stake in mobile activism/journalism.

Scientific fiction (FR)

Yujin Choi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:40:39 +0200

The relationship between science-fiction and design is rich and pretty straight-forward, as explained by UK designer Matt Webb. Starting from examples of believable "scientific fiction", he describes how he implements this sort of thinking into a design process to create original prototypes.

Learning to play with Tomorrow

Yujin Choi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:47:19 +0200

Urban Mobs (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:49:15 +0200

Urban Mobs : how to visualize the cell phone activity in cities ?

Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of Faber Novel, describes the results from "Urban Mobs". This project, conducted with Orange aimed at studying crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography through mobile phone tracking.

Who has no knife may not eat pineapples

Yujin Choi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:24:04 +0200

Who has no knife may not eat pineapples, an off-topic tour d'horizon on the literacy of cutting

Soft Infrastructure Superpowers

Yujin Choi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:15:22 +0200

Dan Hill, from urban engineering firm Arup, revisits the past vision of the city of the future and shows they turned out differently. He discusses the important interplay between urban soft infrastructure (people, networks, culture, society, civic relationships) and hard infrastructure. Which leads him to the role of design thinking in developing this new layer information/services based on personal informatics.

Lifestyle Experiments

Yujin Choi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:07:36 +0200

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.

Creative communities (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:22:28 +0200

From the Jurassic Era

pinkbike — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:05:59 +0100

From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures.

IP protocol inventor Vinton Cerf, who is now Vice President and Internet Evangelist at Google gave the concluding talk at Lift 09. After a quick recap of the history of the Internet, he basically gives an enthusiastic tour of its current limits (bitrot, IP address shortage) as well projects about its evolution, such as interplanetary internet though satellites.

Enchanted Objects - How fiction foreshadows innovation

Yujin Choi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:42:55 +0200

David Rose, who is a serial entrepreneur and a lecturer at MIT, shows how human beings have persistent needs and wishes that they carry through time. For each of these needs, he presents various prototypes and products to demonstrate how design can lead to "enchanted objects" by fulfilling them.

Globalism, Mobiles, & The Cloud

Yujin Choi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:46:27 +0200

Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges (FR)

pinkbike — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:09:03 +0100

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.

RFID and Security (FR)

Yujin Choi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:28:53 +0200

Melanie Rieback, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, gives an overview of the security and privacy issues concerning Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. As a a "white hat hacker", she showed how she was able to break RFID systems in order to show to other people how to fix them.

Update on Wikimedia Foundation

Yujin Choi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:21:25 +0200

Scientific fiction

Yujin Choi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:18:51 +0200

Sociogeek (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:27:23 +0200

Sociogeek: How do you expose yourself online? How do you choose your online friends? Another kind of online survey

Innovation VS product lifecycle

Yujin Choi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:29:45 +0200

All The Content CEO Clément Charles questions the importance of product lifecycle in the context of innovation: Does product lifecycle kill innovation or it's a necessary process to fund research? What is the impact of open innovation on those lifecycle?

Metromantics

Yujin Choi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:33:56 +0200

Frank Beau, an independent researcher specialized in new media, talks about the "Metromantics" project. He basially describes the findings of a study of internet messages about romantic encounters in Paris' metro and show the sociological implications of such behaviors.

Soft Infrastructure Superpowers (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:09:25 +0200

Lifestyle Experiments (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:52:28 +0200

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

The role of design in sustainable development

Yujin Choi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:34:33 +0200

Lift09 introduction

Yujin Choi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:13:12 +0200

Laurent Haug, founder of the Lift Conference, opens the Lift09 conference and introduces the events' program.

The Mozilla Project (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:30:45 +0200

The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network

Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.

Memoires of a magnificent future

Yujin Choi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:50:53 +0200

Sarah Marquis' adventures (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:39:08 +0200

Swiss adventurer Sarah Marquis gives an impromptu account of her experience when walking through continents such as Australia or South America. She takes the Lift audience on a trip to explain her whole experience "away from home" and how she achieved it technically speaking in terms of food consumption or navigation.

The Sensable City (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:13:15 +0200

From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures (FR)

Yujin Choi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:28 +0200

From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures

Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges

Yujin Choi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:41:48 +0200

What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture enables 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.

Innovation VS product lifecycle (FR)

Yujin Choi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:46:18 +0200

Reinventing the personal computer (FR)

Yujin Choi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:15:36 +0200

Frederic Kaplan, a researcher and robot designer from the Swiss Institute of Technology (Lausanne) talks about the need to invent new kind of computer interfaces adapted to more causal situations,without mouse and keyboard that one can use while continuing doing other thinks.

Urban Mobs: How to visualize the cell phone activity in cities?

Yujin Choi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:56:14 +0200

How to visualize the cell phone activity in cities?
Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of Faber Novel, describes the results from "Urban Mobs". This project, conducted with Orange aimed at studying crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography through mobile phone tracking.

The Future of Fake

Yujin Choi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:02:03 +0200

Enchanted Objects (FR)

Yujin Choi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:19:58 +0200

Enchanted Objects - how fiction foreshadows innovation

Design Provocations (FR)

Yujin Choi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:49:14 +0200

Clive van Heerden, creative director of Philips ‘Design Probes‘ program, explains their research methods based on design provocations. Through different examples such as skin tatoos, new textiles forms he shows how these "probes" are employed to understand people’s reactions and therefore better understand the future lifestyle in 2020/30.