26 August 2003
For immediate release:
Doors of Perception in Bangalore
Doors of Perception announces a "working party" in Bangalore, India, on 11 and 12 December, to celebrate its tenth birthday. DoorsEast 2003 is a cluster of events on the theme: "Local knowledge: design and innovation of tomorrow's services". The main event is a two-day international encounter - part conference, part open space workshop - on 11 and 12 December. It will address the question: "how do we design new services, enabled by ICT, that are based on local knowledge, and use local content?" DoorsEast features case studiesof location based information (GIS / GPS), WiFi networks, tools and methodologies for mapping local knowledge, and other new ways to design for mobility, geography, and access.
Doors' partners in the event are the Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS) and the National Institute of Design, in India; and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and Nokia, in Europe. Presenters and participants include: grassroots innovators from India and South Asia; designers of future service scenarios from MediaLab, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and others; Jussi Angesleva, the winner of Open Doors in 2002; Webby Award winner Marcel van der Drift; Derrick de Kerckhove, McCluhan Program director; Darlie O Koshy, Director, National Institute of Design in India; Open Doors peoples' choice Live|Work, from London; Ezio Manzini, Milan Polytechnic University; philosopher Patricia de Maertelare; e-democracy expert Bert Mulder; future services designers from Nokia; Jogi Panghaal, DoorsEast; Aditya Dev Sood, Center for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore; Marco Susani, Motorola; and symposiarch John Thackara, Doors of Perception.
John Thackara commented: "The first major industry, textiles, owed a great deal to the transfer of knowledge from India. Our focus in design is now shifting its focus from things, to systems, and there are many new ways we can learn from South Asian thought". 
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