PSFK Good Ideas Salon London Speaker Christian Nold

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January 9, 2009

Christian Nold, Creator of Bio Mapping, will be speaking at our PSFK Good Ideas Salon London. His talk on engaging our surroundings through technology will be followed by our Good Ideas in Mobile Panel (Dan Hon, Matt Jones, and Mike Butcher).

First, who are you and what do you do?

Christian Nold is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. In 2001 he wrote the well received book ‘Mobile Vulgus’, which examined the history of the political crowd and which set the tone for his research into participatory mapping. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Christian has led a number of large scale participatory projects and worked with a team on diverse academic research projects. In particular his ‘Bio Mapping’ project has received large amounts of international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries and over 1,500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions. These participatory projects have a strong pedagogical basis and grew out of Christian’s formal university teaching. He is currently based at the Bartlett, University College London.

You’ll be sharing your ideas on Good Ideas for Communities. In one paragraph, can you explain what themes and ideas you hope to touch upon during the discussion?

I will discuss “Design for Responsive Communities.” How performative and embodied ways of engaging with our surroundings allows us to create powerful visions of future change in local areas.

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