Here's the dConstruct09 conference recap presentation I gave in the IxDA Helsinki meeting at the Nordkapp office on 10th of September 2009.

1. dConstruct09
Brighton, UK
Organized by Clearleft

2. Nordkapp Recap
at IxDA Helsinki
2009-09-10
Presented by:
Teppo Kotirinta, teppo@nordkapp.fi, twitter.com/teppo
Assisted by:
Sami Niemelä, sami@nordkapp.fi, twitter.com/samin

4. http://2009.dconstruct.org/ http://2009.dconstruct.org/podcast/

5. Workshops

6. Workshops
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14. RFID

16. XBee local
wireless network

18. Ethernet Shield

21. • Disclaimer: code can has errors

23. Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)

24. Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)
= WIN

25. Arduino
(especially Ethernet Shield)
= WIN

28. The conference gathers about 750
people from various fields.
Itʼs about future and vision.
Itʼs quite theoretical.
Workshops and barcamps add a
hands-on side.

29. Adam Greenfield
Elements of a Networked Urbanism

30. • Cities will be networked
information-gathering, -processing,
-storage and -display resources
• ubiquitous computing: everything
will be query-able, scriptable and
programmable - even garbage bins
• implications for privacy
• what about too much information
like “X murders on this street”

31. • Cities can become about
“way showing” instead of
“way finding”, like streets lighting
up in a Michael Jackson video
• A move from object to service:
• a single car can be used by many
people during 24hours
• garbage bin can ask for
being emptied

32. We loved it, it set the tone
for the conference.
Notes from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/tags/adamgreenfield/

33. Mike Migurski
Ben Cerveny
Letʼs See What We Can See
(Everybody Online And Looking
Good)

34. Mike Migurski
Ben Cerveny
• Nice real world examples:
Digg, politics,...
• “Now to the Meta bit” - wait for
the podcast
• Visualization is an editorial
process: what to visualize
and how

35. Brian Fling
Whatʼs Next?
How mobile is
changing design

36. Brian Fling
• Kids wonʼt know anything else
but the digital, mobile age
• And there will plenty of them
• The future will be built on web
technologies HTML5, CSS3, JS

37. Nathan Shedroff
Chris Noessel
Make It So:
Learning from Sci-fi Interfaces

38. • Sci-fi and design influencing each
other w/ demo videos
• attribution of human
characteristics to objects (R2D2)
• Maybe the deeper thoughts are in
the book

41. Robin Hunicke
Loving Your Player with Juicy
Feedback

42. Robin Hunicke
• Described MDA Game theory:
Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics
• Had a spoiler of the Moon movie
• Described ZEN in 3 bullet points
• Described and used the word
#juicy a lot

44. (You might still want to look up the MDA theory!)

45. August de los Reyes
Experience and
the Emotion Commotion

47. • Emotion is important for the
experience
• Also described the MDA theory
• R+G+B+Sensor+Magic

48. Prickels & goo
Microsoft Vision 2019

49. Russel Davies
Materialising and Dematerialising
A Web of Data.
(Or What Weʼve Learned From
Printing The Internet Out)

51. • Vimeo: the most fun Ben's had all year

59. Conclusions
(Davies + dConstruct09)
• Everything Digital is not better
than everything Analog
• We need tostudy the analog
world and
learn from the real
• Futurearound usnot in the web,
itʼs all
of web is
• But it will be built on Web
technologies(!)

60. Conclusions
(Davies + dConstruct09)
• Future is not “digital”, “web” or
“mobile”
• Future is “post digital” &
“ubiquituos computing”
• Get early years of future are
the
on board now as these

61. Why?

62. Why?

63. How?
• Start building and dreaming up
the ubiquitous future by
• Learning Arduino
• Hacking Lego Mindstorm & toys
• Mashing up digital and analog
(by using Web technologies)

64. Check out Inspirational LEGO Mind Storm robot videos
at Nordkappʼs Vimeo account: http://vimeo.com/6516550

65. Learn more about post-digital by Russell Davies
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2009/01/meet-the-new-schtick.html

66. Thanks
www.nordkapp.fi