CyborgCamp has been quiet for a while in preparation for CyborgCamp Brazil ‘10, CyborgCamp’s first international branching.
About the Brazil CyborgCamp ‘10 event:
Date estimated: 30th March 2010
For information coming soon!
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The following pictures are just a sample of the amazing photos at Mark Coleman took of CyborgCamp. The full set can be be viewed here on Flickr.
Reid Beels explains the unconference structure.
Ward Cunningham explains new ‘Ways of Seeing”.
Simon Walter-Hansen asks a question during one of the presentations.
Leah Hollander explains how insulin pumps affect sex lives.
Thanks so much to Mark Colman for the pictures. His professional site is markcolemanphoto.com/, you can also follow him on Twitter (@Kram).
If you’re looking for videos of CyborgCamp, check out this post.
If you haven’t already heard, Lia Hollander @missburrows is going to be giving a presentation on “How Being a Cyborg Keeps Me Alive” from 11:45Am-12:30Pm at CyborgCamp.
She also just made this little promo video for it, which is pretty epic+adorable+cyborgian.
Lia will talk about the electronics that help keep her healthy and alive, the difficult decision to be attached 24/7 to an insulin pump and that “cyborgs” do in fact have sex.
There will be time for Q&A, open discussion on defining the role in medicine and actual insulin pumps and glucose meters for you to play with.
Anywho — it is a speech you will not want to miss.
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Want to learn more about Lia Hollander’s speech? There’s a full description here.
Hideshi Hamguchi describes himself as a concept creator, strategist + designer who cannot draw pictures. But as a “self-proclaimed diagram-lover, Hamaguchi uses visual models to bring what he calls “simplexity” and “structured chaos” to the process of brainstorming, helping businesses generate creative ideas and strategies in various industries & businesses” (Wikipedia).
On Thursday, Bram Pitoyo and I met with Hideshi Hamaguchi at a small tea shop near Ziba Design in NW Portland. To say that we were excited to meet him is an understatement. He talked to us in graphs and images, and we saw a little into how his brain worked. We were blown away by how he considered the world, and how he represented it on paper.
Workshop on Idea Creation
We’re excited to announce that Hideshi will be hosting a workshop on how to think and be creative. We’re looking forward to learning with him.
History
Hideshi was born in Osaka, Japan, majored in “Physical Chemistry” at Kyoto University, likes “Business Chemistry” loves “Human Chemistry” and has been living in Beaverton / Portland for eight years, so he is “10% Oregonian -not concentrated-” so far (if he will live up to the age of eighty).
Before starting up LUNARR, Hideshi was Director of New Business Planning Group, Matsushita Electric Works (known for their Panasonic and National brands) in Japan, and Executive Vice President of Panasonic Electric Works Laboratory of America, Inc (R&D company in US). Also, From 1998 to 2000, he served as a strategist at Ziba Design in Portland, which gave him the opportunity to consult with its clients and help them develop new products and services.
Hamaguchi has led more than one hundred projects, from corporate vision to the product strategy or manufacturing process levels for many companies.
Q&A
Portland on Fire asked Hideshi some of the following questions:
On Could you describe your secret process to come up with unique concept / strategies for variety of businesses?
Step 1: Get information – as minimal as possible
Step 2: Draw and play with lots of diagrams
Step 3: Touch, think, talk, and thank.
Step 4: Take a walk
Step 5: Shake head, squash hair, hit the wall
Step 6: Take a shower
Step 7: Enjoy the moment of “what if…!?” and “a-ha!”
The key is; Keeping the think-mode at “Structures Chaos” and using both right brain [ intuition ] and left brain [ logic ].
Connect with Hideshi
If you don’t know already, Ward Cunningham is the computer programmer who developed the first Wiki. He’s one of the most interesting and brilliant people I’ve ever met. He’s currently living in Oregon and is the chief technology officer for AboutUs.org (a wiki-based guide to all websites.
Last night, I asked Ward if he’d like to give as speech at CyborgCamp and the answer was yes. Ward’s presentation will be 30 minutes long, and he’ll be participating in the unconference sessions as well. An update on what he’ll be speaking on will be posted here shortly. Needless to say, it’s going to be great to hear from him. Perhaps he’ll bring some cool inventions and programs with him too.
About Ward
Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the word.
Ward also created Cybords, the biologically inspired computer methodology for natural kinetic sculputure shown at DorkBotPDX and MakerFair. He and his son collaborated with the Graffiti Research Lab to make the Throwie Talkie exhibited at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
What Next?
We’ll keep you posted on developments as they happen. Of course, you can get really quick updates (and sweet news on Cyborgs from all over the web) by following @cyborgcamp on Twitter.
We’re honored to have Bill DeRouchey, a Sr. Interaction Designer in the Interaction Design group at Ziba Design present at CyborgCamp ‘08. He is a witty, brilliant person, and a fun guy to be around. We’re all looking forward to his speech.
Is Machine Language expanding Human Language?
“As technology creeps more and more into our everyday lives,” DeRouchey explains, “the language of technology also permeates our culture. It’s expanding our language, giving us new metaphors for thinking and communicating. The play symbol, the mouse pointer, the @ sign are all examples of symbols with deepening layers of meaning and becoming true icons within our language. This session will spot trends of how humans and technology are forming a symbiotic language, hopefully leading to a fun and esoteric discussion”.
About
Bill is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the Interaction 08, Webvisions and Adaptive Path’s User Experience Week. He is also on the board of directors of IxDA, the Interaction Design Association.On the side, he’s working on his electric ukulele.
He’s the author of Push. Click. Touch, a blog tracing the past, present and future of how people and technology interact. (Formerly known as History of the Button.)
How being a Cyborg Keeps Me Alive, by Lia Hollander / @missburrows
Lia will talk about the electronics that help keep her healthy and alive, the difficult decision to be attached 24/7 to an insulin pump and that “cyborgs” do in fact have sex.
There will be time for Q&A, open discussion on defining the role in medicine and actual insulin pumps and glucose meters for you to play with.
About
A graduate of Simmons College, Lia has worked in diverse work environments including the Psych. ward at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Human Resources department at Sharp Labs of America. She co-created Treasurelicious (a free widget that you add to your website to show your treasures off to your friends).
An avid believer in comprehensive sex education and female empowerment, Lia volunteered with Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette for four years, during which she led community outreach events, met with Washington State Senators and Representatives, and had numerous letters to the editor published in newspapers and magazines.
The blogger behind A.R. and Proud, Lia is also co-creator of Camp Naughty and a regular on the Strange Love Live podcast.
Interested in Speaking?
Simply add yourself and your topic to the speakers page of the CyborgCamp Planning Wiki on CyborgCamp.org.
And you can always come up with a topic to put on the grid when you get to CyborgCamp. It’s a unconference with a few scheduled speakers to lead the discussion and excite the neurons.
Questions?
E-mail Amber Case caseorganic@gmail.com if you have any questions, or follow her on Twitter@caseorganic.
