AND!! what gets me is that the existence of the conference will be the contributing to the real death of polar bears. I.e the contribution to the carbon foot print of more people traveling.
As I said on twitter, this conference wreaks of hubris and decadence and I'm not even talking about the economical. As Robert pointed out, your explanation and the goals of the challenge itself are in oposition AND!!!! As Marc Rettig so correctly put forward in his presentation this weekend, we need to immerse ourselves in the worlds problems before we can even begin to conceive of the real grounded solutions. Maybe a better way to craft a true "design challenge" would be along the lines of ... Teams compete to represent their locality. Design Challenge 1: Research ... Spend the week with your team based on the drafted research doc you put together, researching in YOUR locality. 2. Ideate ... Spend a week the following year based on the methods in your proposal (that got you this far) and ideate and prototype solutions. 3. Evaluate ... spend a week again traveling through your locality, finding out if your ideas are worth consideration 4. Collaborate ... spend a week in virtual rooms, collaborating (not competing) with your other teams from around the world about how your solutions integrate and learn from each other and then take another stab at putting it all together again. Not totally framed out correctly, but is realistic in its approach of local > global and builds insteads of destroys and doesn't negatively impact those things you want to change. Basically, we know that advertising and marketing use "sexy" to get us to do things we aught not being doing. Hell, many of us were/are such advertisers, so why are we so easily falling for it now. It just seems like you are asking OK questions (not all of them are good) but really using a very wrong club to beat it with. (when maybe a hug would be better0. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38517 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
