[chisigmail] Adam Greenfield: Public Keynote at QUT Brisbane 14 July 2009

[Marcus Foth]

As part of the HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to  
Support Civic Engagement, and NICTA Queensland's Big Picture seminar  
series, we are pleased to announce a public keynote presentation by

Adam Greenfield

Tuesday 14 July 2009, 3.45pm for 4pm start (to 5pm)

LaBoite Roundhouse Theatre, 6-8 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
map: http://www.laboite.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=6

The talk will be followed by light refreshments and an opportunity to  
meet the speaker. Seats are limited, so please RSVP by Fri 3 July 2009  
to Ms Julie-Anne Edwards at julieanne.edwards at qut.edu.au



The City is Here for You to Use

Over the past few years the “computer” has begun to disappear into the  
fabric of everyday life, its power to collect, store, process and  
represent information diffusing into the objects and surfaces around  
us. Things as ordinary and seemingly familiar as running shoes,  
elevators and lampposts have been re imagined as networked devices,  
invested with unexpected new abilities. Meanwhile, the phones we carry  
have become ever more powerful “remote controls for our lives”.  
Proponents and enthusiasts argue that no domain of human behaviour  
will be untouched by this transformation, but relatively little  
thought has been given to specifically how these changes might unfold  
at the scale of the city. How will the advent of a truly ubiquitous  
computing change our urban places – both the way they are built, and  
the way we live them? In this talk, Everyware author Adam Greenfield  
tries to wrap his head around this dynamic set of conditions, to  
clarify what’s at stake and to offer some potential frameworks for  
building humane and liveable cities in the age of ambient informatics.




Biography

Adam Greenfield is an internationally-recognised writer, user  
experience consultant, and critical futurist, having worked for  
clients ranging from global concerns like Toyota, Capgemini, and Sony  
to local nonprofits. He brings audiences the most advanced thinking  
available on next-generation computing, with special expertise in the  
social, ethical and design implications of ubiquitous computing. He is  
currently head of design direction for service and user-interface  
design at Nokia and lives in Helsinki with his wife, artist Nurri Kim.



Sponsors

This seminar event is co-hosted by the NICTA Queensland Research  
Laboratory, Queensland University of Technology’s Institute for  
Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi), and the ARC Network in Human  
Communication Science (HCSNet).

If you would also like to attend From Social Butterfly to Urban  
Citizen: A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support  
Civic Engagement (13/14 July 2009), please register following the  
instructions at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943

Urban Informatics group on facebook: http://tinyurl.com/fbqutui



--
Dr Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/





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