[spectre] Workshops during Recalling RFID :: Amsterdam | 20 Oct 2007

[richard de boer]

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RECALLING RFID
two-day public program on RFID and things to come.

19 & 20 OCTOBER 2007
DE BALIE AMSTERDAM
http://www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid
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saturday 20 oct | 11.00-17.00 hrs
PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Concepts for Social RFID & Mapping Future Histories of RFID

On Saturday, two parallel participatory workshops are set up in De  
Balie. Concepts for Social RFID, hosted by Mediamatic, works on  
concrete proposals for relevant social RFID projects. Mapping Future  
Histories of RFID, by the Digital Methods Initiative, will capture  
RFID debates on the Web, making useful histories of the present. The  
workshops will kick off with an introduction by designer Timo Arnall. 	

Each of the workshops has room for 15 to 20 people. No specific  
technical knowledge is required, but participants should bring, if  
possible, a laptop with wi-fi and a VGA connection. For the Concepts  
for Social RFID workshop, a digital camera with an easy way to upload  
pictures is also required, as well as some basic experience with so- 
called Web 2.0 practices.

The total number of participants to these workshops is limited to  
facilitate close interaction. We recommend you to reserve or buy  
tickets in time (on the bottom of this page). During the introduction  
of both workshops on Saturday, you can decide in which workshop you  
will participate.

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Concepts for Social RFID
Which objects in public or private space can become richer social  
objects by adding the specific possibilities of RFID?

In this workshop we will work on concrete proposals for relevant  
social RFID projects.Proposals for projects that bring the social Web  
into physical space (or make physical space part of the social Web)  
will be developed in a series of central sessions, brainstorm  
sessions, and field research trips.

Workshop facilitator is Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Mediamatic), who led  
various workshops on social and cultural applications of RFID, and  
also put together the RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp at  
PICNIC'07.

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Mapping Future Histories of RFID
How are online debates surrounding RFID formatting the technology  
before it fully appears?

The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) takes tools to the Web to  
capture this process, surveying 'past futures' as they are written.  
Join us in mapping the RFID debate and its imagery, in order to  
rewrite the present. DMI is a group of researchers, programmers and  
designers researching and visualizing 'natively digital' objects of  
study.

Workshop leader will be Richard Rogers, director of Govcom.org and  
initiator of DMI.

The Mapping Future Histories of RFID workshop is supported by the  
Mondriaan Foundation.

TICKETS: € 20 incl. lunch (students € 10)

BUY OR RESERVE TICKETS ONLINE:
http://www.debalie.nl/recallingrfid
ticket office: + 31 (0)20 553 51 00

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