Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Category Identity / Privacy
Turin World Design Capital in 2008
My hometown Turin (or “Torino” in Italian) has been selected as the 2008 World Design Capital by ICSID, the international council of societies of industrial design. With this nomination, Turin has been given the go-ahead to organise a series of…
The product as story [The Observer]
If you had to write your organisation’s obituary, what would it say? Would there be any mourners? Has it made any difference to anyone? Would the world be worse off without it? Would anyone actually notice? Faced with this question,…
A user-centric concept of web identity
Identity 2.0 is a new user-centric and secure concept of identity on the web, rather than the current directory or site-centric one, which is not exactly safe. Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity, made a brilliant presentation of what this…
Sacred World Foundation
The Sacred World Foundation was founded several years ago by Ranjit Makkuni, a visionary and designer and a former leading researcher at Xerox PARC. It is a state of the art research and design think tank, located in New Delhi,…
Glocalmap.to – social tagging for mobile phones
Glocalmap.to (site currently in Italian only) is a large-scale cultural “social tagging” project that integrates web mapping, thematic tagging and mobile phone messaging, to create a new urban narrative for the city of Turin. It allows citizens and visitors alike…
Indigenous people bridging the digital divide [World Changing]
Indigenous peoples are using both digital and narrative media to preserve and express their cultures and beliefs. Often this involves adapting media and technology to what the people need, rather than pushing them into a pre-digested or “mainstream” model of…
Extra, extra! Foreign press, translated [Christian Science Monitor]
Website lets Americans see what the world’s non-English publications say about US policy. The headline reads, “Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake.’ ” That might sound harsh to an American audience, but it’s less likely to ruffle Iraqis reading…
Digital data never die [Business Week]
E-mail, video, and all sorts of stuff now rendered in bits and bytes never really disappear and can be easily copied. Privacy? Hah! Read full story
European Cities Monitor
What do European companies think about European cities? Here is a sample of the results of a survey with 500 of Europe’s 15,000 biggest companies: The top 10 European cities to locate a business to today (in order): London,…
Reflecting on Europe’s identity
A series of articles on the current European debate: Meet me in Eumerica for the best of two worlds [International Herald Tribune, 22 June 2005] Grass roots change for Europe (by EU Commissioner Margot Wallström) [International Herald Tribune, 21 June…
The Red Cross and secrecy, or how to deal with a changing world [Financial Times]
A particularly thorough and insightful article on how the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), based as it is on 19th and early 20th century paradigms, is coping with a changing world. It analyses the simple question raised by…
Rethinking the identity of Cittadellarte, the foundation of Michelangelo Pistoletto
During the last five months, I have been working intensively with Michelangelo Pistoletto and the staff of his foundation, Cittadellarte, on a clearer definition of Cittadellarte’s core identity, which had become a little diffuse after several years of fast growth…
A city with drive [The Independent]
Stephen Bayley takes a pit stop in Turin, and finds the hometown of Fiat is fuelled by fast cars and fabulous food. Read full story
Dortmund looks ahead [International Herald Tribune]
In 2003, roughly 500 Chinese workers arrived in Dortmund to deal the final blow to the city’s former status as a heavy-industry heartland in Germany’s Ruhr River valley. Working by day and sometimes by night, the Chinese dismantled Dortmund’s last…
Broke but dynamic, Berlin seeks new identity [International Herald Tribune]
Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin, has a gargantuan task. He wants to make this formerly divided metropolis one of Europe’s most attractive places to live. But Berlin is bankrupt. Read full story
Can Europe survive? [Red Herring]
Europe gave the world Linux, GSM, and the web, but got little of the fortune and less of the glory. To get what it is due, some old world ways will have to change. Read full story
A spiritual connection [The Economist]
Around the world, mobile phones seem to have a spiritual or supernatural dimension that other forms of technology lack. Read full story