dConstruct09
Brighton, UK
Organized by Clearleft

Nordkapp Recap
at IxDA Helsinki
2009-09-10
Presented by:
Teppo Kotirinta, teppo@nordkapp.fi, twitter.com/teppo
Assisted by:
Sami Niemelä, sami@nordkapp.fi, twitter.com/samin

http://2009.dconstruct.org/ http://2009.dconstruct.org/podcast/

Workshops

Workshops
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RFID

XBee local
wireless network

Ethernet Shield

• Disclaimer: code can has errors

Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)

Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)
= WIN

Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)
= WIN

The conference gathers about 750
people from various fields.
Itʼs about future and vision.
Itʼs quite theoretical.
Workshops and barcamps add a
hands-on side.

Adam Greenfield
Elements of a Networked Urbanism

• Cities will be networked
information-gathering, -processing,
-storage and -display resources
• ubiquitous computing: everything
will be query-able, scriptable and
programmable - even garbage bins
• implications for privacy
• what about too much information
like “X murders on this street”

• Cities can become about
“way showing” instead of
“way finding”, like streets lighting
up in a Michael Jackson video
• A move from object to service:
• a single car can be used by many
people during 24hours
• garbage bin can ask for
being emptied

We loved it, it set the tone
for the conference.
Notes from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/tags/adamgreenfield/

Mike Migurski
Ben Cerveny
Letʼs See What We Can See
(Everybody Online And Looking
Good)

Mike Migurski
Ben Cerveny
• Nice real world examples:
Digg, politics,...
• “Now to the Meta bit” - wait for
the podcast
• Visualization is an editorial
process: what to visualize
and how

Brian Fling
Whatʼs Next?
How mobile is
changing design

Brian Fling
• Kids wonʼt know anything else
but the digital, mobile age
• And there will plenty of them
• The future will be built on web
technologies HTML5, CSS3, JS

Nathan Shedroff
Chris Noessel
Make It So:
Learning from Sci-fi Interfaces

• Sci-fi and design influencing each
other w/ demo videos
• attribution of human
characteristics to objects (R2D2)
• Maybe the deeper thoughts are in
the book

Robin Hunicke
Loving Your Player with Juicy
Feedback

Robin Hunicke
• Described MDA Game theory:
Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics
• Had a spoiler of the Moon movie
• Described ZEN in 3 bullet points
• Described and used the word
#juicy a lot

(You might still want to look up the MDA theory!)

August de los Reyes
Experience and
the Emotion Commotion

• Emotion is important for the
experience
• Also described the MDA theory
• R+G+B+Sensor+Magic

Prickels & goo
Microsoft Vision 2019

Russel Davies
Materialising and Dematerialising
A Web of Data.
(Or What Weʼve Learned From
Printing The Internet Out)

• Vimeo: the most fun Ben's had all year

Conclusions
(Davies + dConstruct09)
• Everything Digital is not better
than everything Analog
• We need tostudy the analog
world and
learn from the real
• Futurearound usnot in the web,
itʼs all
of web is
• But it will be built on Web
technologies(!)

Conclusions
(Davies + dConstruct09)
• Future is not “digital”, “web” or
“mobile”
• Future is “post digital” &
“ubiquituos computing”
• Get early years of future are
the
on board now as these

Why?

Why?

How?
• Start building and dreaming up
the ubiquitous future by
• Learning Arduino
• Hacking Lego Mindstorm & toys
• Mashing up digital and analog
(by using Web technologies)

Check out Inspirational LEGO Mind Storm robot videos
at Nordkappʼs Vimeo account: http://vimeo.com/6516550

Learn more about post-digital by Russell Davies
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2009/01/meet-the-new-schtick.html

Thanks
www.nordkapp.fi