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Reassembling Health: exploring the role of The Internet of Things This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. A report of the workshop can be found here. Here you can also find some of the material used to run this workshop. Here you can find a series of slide framing the workshop themes. Here below a conceptual map aimed to provide an open conceptual space to be explored during the workshop.Read more	Accelerating the roadmap to an Internet of Things @ Home, Philips Design with Philips I.T. Strategy and Innovation View the workshop Prezi here. For the best viewing experience give Prezi time to load the media then select full screen from "More" at the bottom right of presentation, use on-screen arrows to follow path or navigate freely with your mouse. Thank you to all participants who contributed! This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council can run in 2010. Read more	Homesense, Tinker.it! This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. Smart homes have generally been more successful in concept than in execution or in-home use. This problem is usually not one of technology, but of interaction and interface design - we can build a Smart Home, but who wants to use it? And how do they use it? Smart home concepts have so far been designed in-house in r&d departments of large companies with very rigid use scenarios or pre-designed environments and technology infrastructures. The Homesense Project will bring methodologies developed in virtual environments (user-generated and remixed content, communities, data visualisations, etc.) to physical infrastructures. Read more
Can Elves Live With Dwarves Without Trolls? Futures of the Internet of Things, Summ()n This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. Interactive role-playing workshop to explore possible futures of the Internet of Things. During the workshop the teams will construct their own versions of the future IoT by taking a few specific 'roles' and following a special 'gameplay', collaborative and competitive at the same time. An open, yet structured process will help the participants to express - and reflect upon - their ideas about the future of the Internet of Things, learn from each other and together construct more meaningful and integral version of the new emerging realities.Read more	Making an MBA profile for IoT This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. The question of how to store, interpret, and use relevant information will be one of the most important in the coming decades with the increasing merging of analogue and digital situations, systems, and contexts. Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), sentient computing, pro-active computing, Disappearing Computer, Digital Territory, Ambient Intelligence, all these terms point to a shared 21th century vision on computing as running in the background.Read more	Tools for mediation in the IoT This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. In this workshop we will work with the premisse that vertical institutions will break under the weight of the internet based decision possibilities of evergrowing groups of people organizing themselves on all kinds of specific topics. How can we help existing institutions and power nodes to transform into a networked form of a variety of heterogeneous forms of organisation that need mediation? Following the logic of a dark but plausible scenario focusing on breakdown rather then contuinity, we want to bypass the possibility of this scenario by facilitating citizens with the individual and community tools that are necessary to perform the functions of current institutions and democratic processes: slow down, mediate, negociate, educate, take a long term perspective...Read more
The Sensing City, with Plot This workshop is indicative of the kind of workshops Council will run in 2010. A workshop to explore Internet of things at the scale of the City Most of us will be living in cities in the future, and cities are a scale of operating most of us don't often get a chance to think at. Many cities are expanding exponentially – some 70 million people leave rural areas every year to join nearby cities, the majority to join squatter cities. At the same time brand new cities, such as Masdar - a carbon neutral city in Abu Dhabi - are being built right now.Read more	Results from the Sensing City workshop by Gill Wildman Most of us will be living in cities in the future, and cities are a scale of operating most of us don't often get a chance to think at. Many cities are expanding exponentially – some 70 million people leave rural areas every year to join nearby cities, the majority to join squatter cities. At the same time brand new cities, such as Masdar - a carbon neutral city in Abu Dhabi - are being built right now. File Upload: SensingCityWks.pdf

Marleen Wynants

Marleen Wynants (1958) is an independent journalist, publicist and consultant. She worked as music producer and content researcher for the official Belgian Radio and Television in its pre-commercial stage. She was the editor of the post-punt magazine Fabiola, leaving the scene in 1988, the year that Hillel Slovak, Chet Baker, Divine, Sylvester and Roy Orbison died. She published articles for the major media groups in Belgium, wrote books for children, organised educational workshops and published articles and columns on ICT, on interdisciplinary science projects and on the people behind them. At present she is the director of CROSSTALKS, the interdisciplinary university and industry network of VUB.

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Arjen Sondag

Arjen Sondag is an Interaction Designer, researcher and artist concentrating on physical interaction design, smart systems and context awareness. His main interests is how we can interact with all the smart products that are going to be developed in the near future and that are too small for normal interaction paradigms. Normally he will do research, conceptualize the ideas and then rapid prototype the solution to prove the concept.

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Cristiano Storni

Cristiano Storni is graduated in HCI and holds a PhD in Information Systems and Organization at the Faculty of Sociology (Dept. of Social Research) in the University of Trento. After having collected experiences in consultancy and action-research, Cristiano is now Post-doc research fellow at the Interaction Design Centre at the department of Computer Science and Information Systems (University of Limerick). He is actually leading the sociological strand of FutureComm, an Irish national program for research in Third-Level institutions that aims to envision the future of ICT and services in various domains. His research is concerned with the social shaping of technology, the notion of appropriation and the future of ICT in the domain of Health Care, web 2.0, open software and hardware. He is actually focusing on the future of self-care practices and the changing role of designers in ICT.

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