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DOORS OF PERCEPTION 5: PLAY
26-28 November 1998, Amsterdam

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The final programme of the fifth Doors of Perception conference on PLAY has been announced by the Netherlands Design Institute. This highly-acclaimed conference on multimedia, the Internet, design and culture takes place on 26-28 November 1998. It brings together more than eight-hundred international participants at the historic Beurs van Berlage building in Amsterdam.
Doors 5: PLAY features the world's leading designers, thinkers, game developers, teachers, publishers, architects, and management educators. Confirmed speakers include:
  • J.C. Herz (New York Times new media critic and author of Joystick Nation)
  • Alan Kay (personal computing pioneer and Vice President of Research and Development at Disney)
  • Yasmin Kafai (professor Education & Information, UCLA)
  • Mitchel Resnick (director of MIT Media Lab's Toys of Tomorrow)
  • Toshio Iwai (intyernational media artist, Japan)
  • Bruce Mau (designer, a.o. with Rem Koolhaas of S,M,L,XL)
  • Brenda Laurel (author of Computers as Theatre)
  • Danny Hillis (Disney Imagineering)
  • Stephen Heppell (director of Ultralab, the Internet and Learning research centre)
  • Will Wright (founder of Maxis and designer of the SimCity computer game)
  • Uffe Elbaek (Rector, Kaos Pilots business school, Denmark)
  • David Vogler (Vice-President, Creative, Nickelodeon Online, New York)
  • Sarah Woods (NCR Knowledge Lab, London).
Says John Thackara, director of the Netherlands Design Institute, and conference chairman: 'Doors 5: PLAY is about the toys, media and places of future play—not just for children, but for us all. Their design will influence the future of learning, the future of school, and the future of work. Doors 5 will be our most important conference so far.'

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updated 22-9-1998
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