[artinfo] A Decade of Webdesign

[Institute of Network Cultures]

	A Decade of Webdesign

Two days international conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Friday 21 and Saturday 22 January, 2005.

More information & registration at http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org

Organization:
Piet Zwart Institute, MA Media Design Research, Rotterdam 
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam http://www.networkcultures.org
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam http://www.stedelijk.nl

	Conference Programme:

FRIDAY JANUARY 21

10:45 Introduction to the conference by Geert Lovink

11:00 Histories of Web Design
with: Adrian Mackenzie, Peter Lunenfeld, Franziska Nori,  chair: Matthew Fuller
What do technical and cultural historians, or those active in the 
world of museums, propose as ways to make an account of the last 
decade?

14:00 Distributed Design
with: John Chris Jones, Olia Lialina, Hayo Wagenaar, chair: Femke Snelting
The web amplified an explosion of non-professional design. This panel 
will ask what happens to design once it becomes a non-specialist 
network process.

16:30 Meaning Structures
with: Steven Pemberton, Angela Beesley, Schoenerwissen/OfCD, 
Moderator: Richard Rogers
As automated site-design becomes increasingly important, the history 
of the interweaving of technology and culture up to the point of 
semantic engineering is mapped out.

SATURDAY JANUARY 22

11:00 Digital Work
with: Danny O'Brien, Michael Indergaard, Rosalind Gill, Moderator: Geert Lovink
Can we redesign work? From economics, sociology and design, key 
observers and critics of the changing patterns of work in web design 
will comment on the decade and encourage you to have your say.

14:00 Modeling the User
with: Helen Petrie, Geke van Dijk, Peter Luining, Moderator: Caroline Nevejan
Creativity and usability have often been set up as the two key poles 
of web design. This panel asks instead for a more sophisticated 
narrative about  the change in understanding of user needs and 
desires over the last ten  years.

16:30 Plenary Session With all speakers.