A Decade of Webdesign

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A Decade of Webdesign
Two day international conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Friday 21 and Saturday 22 January, 2005.
More information & registration at www.decadeofwebdesign.org
Entrance fee (including lunch):
30 euros per day / 50 euros for two days,
Students: 17,50 / 30 euros
Make web history at www.designtimeline.org!

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

FRIDAY JANUARY 21
10:20 Doors Open

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?

13:00 Lunch break & Timeline Hot Spots

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.


16:00 Tea break & Timeline Hot Spots

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.

18:00 End

18:30 Conference dinner at the Westergasterras

SATURDAY JANUARY 22
10.30 Doors open

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.

13:00 Lunchbreak & Timeline Hot Spots

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.

16:00 Tea break & Timeline Hot Spots

16:30 Plenary Session
With all speakers.

18:00 - 19:30 Drinks at Club 11

Don't forget to register at www.decadeofwebdesign.org
Also, please check the resource section for interviews with Max Bruinsma

and Luna Maurer, and extended bios of the speakers, by INC researcher
Goran
Batic. http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/resource.html

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