Posts Tagged ‘Adam Greenfield’
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Around a year ago I went to Citilab-Cornellà for the first time to participate in UrbanLabs 08 – you can see my first impressions here.
A year later I’m working at Citilab and taking part in the preparations for the event, which we will also be going to as cataspanglish.
So here are some of the reasons cataspanglish will be attending:
- UrbanLabs is a hands-on get down & dirty event which aims to have a real impact and not just be a talking shop although there are some…
- Great keynote speakers – Adam Greenfield, Juan Freire, Ben Ceverny & Dave Harte. These are not your boring “circuit” speakers, but people with a real passion for what they’re doing & thinking, people who get involved in things such as…
- The Ideas Bank which Platoniq are coordinating – real ideas & projects will be presented and the participants of UrbanLabs will be voting on the “best” one to give some financial aid to from the (low) fee from the event because …
- the motto for Urbanlabs (a contribution of one of its founders, Enric Senabre) is (read this post by Ramon Sangüesa): ”Technocitizenship” (geeks with civic conscience and citizens with digital abilities) and ”Socioinnovation” (let technocitizens invent their collective future) – so come &
- let’s invent our collective future!
See you there…
Tags: Adam Greenfield, Ben Ceverny, cataspanglish, Citilab, Citilab-Cornellà, Dave Harte, Enric Senabre, Ideas Bank, Juan Freire, Platoniq, Ramon Sangúesa, Urban Labs 08, UrbanLabs 09
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Play!
Part 2 of the conversation with Adam Greenfield – click the photo for the groovy version. This conversation was recorded the day after Barack Obama won the US Presidential election.
Thanks to AG for being so generous with his time and for Medialab-Prado for letting us use their office.
Tags: Adam Greenfield, Barack Obama, Barcelona, Everyware, Helsinki, Madrid, Medialab-Prado, Mekons, Tokyo
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I went to Madrid to meet Adam Greenfield and record a conversation with him for the PodCamp Barcelona Podcast. This is the first part of the conversation – I’ll post the second part shortly.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Adam for his time and being so approachable. If you ever get the chance to see Adam speak, take it – he is very interesting, stimulating, unassuming and an all-round charming man. Read his book Everyware to see how someone can write about complex ideas in beautiful, understandable language. And check out his blog Speedbird for more of the same great thoughtful and thought-provoking writing.
Tags: Adam Greenfield, Everyware, Madrid, PodCamp Barcelona podcast, Speedbird
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Tags: Adam Greenfield, Barcelona, Everyware, iPhone, Lleida, Madrid, Open Research Day, Ubiquitous Computing, Visualizar'08
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
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This morning I finished reading Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - a remarkable, beautifully written explanation and call to participation of a new world on our doorsteps byAdam Greenfield. I’ve just read on Adam’s blog that he will be in Madrid at VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY Go and see him if you can.
The Handheld Learning conference took place in London this week and although we weren’t able to go, I discovered via their Twitter tweets that it was possible to follow a lot of the presentations through a “live” blog hosted at Cover It Live. As it was a blog format, “readers” could ask questions and add comments. It was the next best thing to being there.
The UrbanLabs page is being continuously updated with media from the event and links for future collaboration – keep up to date here
Tags: Adam Greenfield, blogs, Cover It live, education, Everyware, Handheld Learning, Twitter, unconference, Urban Labs 08, Visualizar'08
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