[node-l] Internet of Things - event at RCA Tuesday 6th of October

[Armin Medosch]

Dear Node.L-ers

some of you might be interested in coming to this talk organised by
Bronac Ferran
best
Armin

From: Bronac Ferran <bronacferran at googlemail.com>
Subject: EVENT AT RCA 6TH OCTOBER


I'm delighted to invite you to attend an event at the Royal College of
Art on the evening of Tuesday 6th October. Speakers are Usman Haque and
Rob Van Kranenburg with Armin Medosch in the chair. If you would like to
attend please let me know so I can put your name on the door. Please
come to the Kensington Gore entrance of the RCA and ask for Lecture
Theatre One. The event starts at 6.30 pm and will end by 8.15 pm
followed by refreshments. 

It is the final event in a series called 'Systems of Learning' which has
looked as different ways in which media systems encourage collaboration,
network and user feedback and human-machine learning. 

In this final event the focus will be on the emergence of what has been
called 'The Internet of Things'. and how this impacts on communication,
design, social interaction, how we live in our homes and how we hold
onto ideas of privacy in a ubiquitously networked and tagged world. What
are the implications of this network for surveillance, design, privacy,
our homes, our working environments? In development of these systems are
there particular challenges for designers which can be exploited and how
might these opportunities be realised?

'Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their
development. A near invisible network of radio frequency identification
tags (RFID) is being deployed on almost every type of consumer item.
These tiny, traceable chips, which can be scanned wirelessly, are being
produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the
internet in an instant'. 

Rob Van Kranenburg - The Internet of Things, a Critique of Ambient
Technology and the All_seeing Network of RFID, Network Notebook for the
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, downloadable at

<http://www.networkcultures.org/networknotebooks>

About the speakers-



Rob Van Kranenburg is an innovation consultant who has taught at various
schools in the Netherlands and co-founded the bricolabs network -
www.bricolabs.net - as well as a new initiative called,Council which is
a hub/thinktank in relation to various policy and technical issues
relating to the Internet of Things. 

Haque is also a Council member and runs his own company, Haque Design
and Research, <http://www.haque.co.uk/>. He won the 2008 Design of the
Year award (Interactive) from the Design Museum and specialises in the
design of interactive systems, transforming architecture from static to
dynamic, responsive and conversant systems. Systems currently being
developed at his company included Pachube - see
http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/01/28/pachube-patching-the-planet-interview-with-usman-haque/

Armin Medosch is a leading media artist, writer and researcher who is
doing a PhD at Goldsmiths College; aspects of his present and previous
work can be seen at


<http://www.thenextlayer.org/>

with best wishes


Bronac