Information Design Conference 2007 posts report
Thursday, April 12th, 2007A short summary of the Information Design Conference 2007 has been posted.
Summary from the site:
The Information Design Conference 2007 was held in Greenwich, London on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March. There were about 110 participants, including 22 speakers, from about 20 countries including UK, USA, Brazil, Mexico, The Netherlands and Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, Portugal and Spain, Qatar, Hong Kong. Many participants work across national borders: Brazilians in the US and UK, Brits abroad, Germans in the Netherlands and so on. And many had heard of the event from the InfoDesign-Cafe list, or its sister list, the announcements-only InfoDesign list.
One of the important effects of conferences is that it is easy to make contacts, initiate activities and test ideas. The available posters are an easy start to achieve this. Furthermore, students are introduced to potential employers, researchers can discuss their work with practitioners, practitioners find common ground for co-operation, and approaches from other specialisms can be picked up and applied to personal situations.
It is likely that audio recordings and slides of several of these talks will soon be available from the IDA website.
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