Four carefully selected makers of interactive projects (artists, designers, architects, hackers, developers or other creators) will tell their story and discus their process with you, the audience.
Don’t expect final outcomes, but do expect revelations about the twists and turns in their ‘makings of’– featuring sketches, video documentation and live demos – and a lively conversation with other makers in the audience. The lectures are English spoken.
Astrid Poot - Fonk Amsterdam - will talk about how they developed the family app OntdekNEMO in the museum with the audience. From the fears at the start of the project (How do you design with the audience?) to their spectacular breakthrough when the team started role-playing.
Klasien van de Zandschulp will talk about storytelling for public art using two of her current projects: Catch up with your friends from the Golden Age and iPerform . Both projects use technology to tell stories of an exhibition in a non-linear way, using new narrative patterns that a young audience can relate to.
Thorsten Alofs - oneseconds - will talk about Wisselkantoor (The Exchange Office), an experiment in group consciousness at the 2014 Lowlands Festival. All festival visitors were divided into two groups by the colour of their wristband. What did it mean? What did you need to go through at the “Wisselkantoor” to change it?
We will announce our fourth speaker soon. Follow us on facebook or twitter and be the first to know.
More information about the night at http://www.thishappened.org/events/this-happened-rotterdam-6.
This happened Rotterdam is organised in collaboration with Designplatform Rotterdam and hosted by WORM.