| D O O R S O F P E R C E P T I O N 5 |
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| preliminary conference schedule 30-10-1998 |
| Thursday 26 November 1998 |
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| 08:30 - 9:30 Registration | |
| 09:30 - 13:00 Session 1 | PLAY/TIME The power of play |
| John Thackara | director, Netherlands Design Institute |
| Barbara Maria Stafford | professor of Art History, University of Chicago |
| Rick Prelinger | president, Prelinger Archives, New York |
| Eric Zimmerman | director, Flat Inc., New York |
| Jogi Panghaal | designer, India |
| Ranjit Makkuni | multimedia designer, Xerox Parc |
| 14:00 - 17.30 Session 2 | GAME/PLAY Inside the games we play |
| J.C. Herz | new media critic, N.Y. Times, New York |
| Jan Willem Huisman | interaction designer, IJsfontein, Amsterdam |
| Tim Wright | NoHo Digital, London |
| Jez San | Argonaut, Middlesex (UK) |
| Sarah Woods | research fellow, NRC Knowledge Lab, London |
| Brenda Laurel | president, Purple Moon, Mountain View CA |
| Will Wright | chief designer, Maxis, Walnut Creek CA |
| Carl Goodman | curator of digital media, AMMI, New York |
| Rolf Pixley | director, Anomalous Research, Amsterdam |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Conference Reception |
| The Netherlands Design Institute and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Amsterdam invite all conference participants and speakers to the conference reception at Thursday, 26 November 1998, from 18.00 - 20.00hrs. |
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| Friday 27 November 1998 |
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| 09.00 - 09.30 | Coffee/tea |
| 09:30 - 13:00 Session 3 | PLAY/SCHOOL The design of play in learning |
| Mitchel Resnick | associate professor, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge |
| Stephen Heppell | director, ULTRALAB, Chelmsford (UK) |
| Caroline Nevejan | director, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam |
| Lewis Bronze | editorial director, Espresso Productions Ltd., London |
| Bas Ording | Human Interface Group, Apple Computer |
| Nobuyuki Ueda | professor Human Relations Department, Konan Women¹s University, Nara |
| Hillel Weintraub | director communication center, Doshisha International High School, Kyoto |
| Yasmin Kafai | assistant professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Los Angeles |
| 14:00 - 16:00 Session 4 | PLAY/INC Beyond the infinite game in business |
| Danny Hillis | vice president and Disney Fellow, Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development, Inc., Glendale (US) |
| Uffe Elbek | rektor Kaos Pilots, Aarhus (Denmark) |
| Gong Szeto | creative partner, i/o 360 digital design inc., New York, a subsidiary of rare medium, inc |
| 16:00 - 18:00 Session 5 | PLAY/CHANNELS Media hybrids and the future of experience |
| Janet Abrams | editor If/Then, Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam |
| David Vogler | vice president, creative, Nickelodeon Online, New York |
| John Wyver | producer, Illuminations, London |
| Dragan Klaic | director, Netherlands Theater Institute, Amsterdam |
| Tony Graham | artistic director, Unicorn Theatre for Children, London |
| Femke Wolting | curator of Exploding Cinema (Film Festival Rotterdam), editor at VPRO, a Dutch broadcasting organisation |
| Johannes Schade | professor, Utrecht University |
| Saturday 28 November 1998 |
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| 10:00 -13:00 | SIDE EVENTS |
| Beurs van Berlage | During the Doors of Perception 5: PLAY conference, three side events are organised on the Saturday morning. On this morning, there will be no programme on the main stage at the Beurs van Berlage, so feel free to choose one of the following events. |
| Interaction Design Bazaar | Students from some of the world's leading interaction design graduate schools, including Royal College of Arts, Utrecht School of the Arts, New York University, and Media-GN, will present new work at the world's first Interaction Design Bazaar. Admission is free for the Doors audience. For this side event you can not pre-register; like a bazaar you can walk in and out. |
| Sure, they're Playing - but are they Learning | newMetropolis, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam Amsterdam's new science and technology center newMetropolis will host a professional meeting on 'Play and Learning'. The meeting places the 'Play and Learning' debate in a historical context, and includes research into informal learning at newMetropolis itself. Admission is free for the Doors audience. Be aware that you need to register for this side event as seats are limited (regeer@newmet.nl). |
| Play it Smart in Architecture | Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Singel 411 (corner Spui), Amsterdam Ecology can be an inspiration for playful architecture. Architect Ken Yeang, engineer Christopher McCarthy and biologist Julian Vincent speak about bioclimatic skyscrapers, new energy concepts and how penguins stay warm. Admission is free for the Doors audience. Be aware that you need to register for this side event as seats are limited (smart@design-inst.nl) |
| 14:00 - 18:00 Session 6 | DESIGN/PLAY The shape of play to come |
| Lara | a performance by Krisztina de Chatel |
| Alan Kay | vice president and Fellow, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Inc., Glendale (USA) |
| James Bradburne | head of design, newMetropolis, Amsterdam |
| Bruce Mau | president, Bruce Mau Design Inc., Toronto |
| Peter Higgins | LandDesign Studios, London |
| Marco Susani | Domus Academy, Milan |
| Kay Hofmeester | Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam |
| Toshio Iwai | Media Artist, Tokyo |
| 22:00 | If/Then Launch Party at Club de Ville |
| Celebrate the end of the conference and the launch of If/Then: Design Implications of New Media, the Netherlands Design Institute's new journal, at Club de Ville ("Westergasfabriek"), Haarlemmerweg 8-10, Amsterdam. | |
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updated 07 november 1998 |
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