Josephine Green is the Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design. She promotes new thinking and new knowledge in the specific field of Social Foresight for Strategy and Innovation.

Josephine Green believes that we need different ways of thinking, being and doing if we are to live well, prosper and safeguard the future. She promotes working in this emerging social space both as an opportunity and as a necessity and sees design and the new technologies as an important enabler towards more social and sustainable solutions for the 21st century.

Josephine will speak at MindTrek on Friday, October 2nd. Check out, for example, this short clip on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qe89dyHbXA

The deadline for the submissions of long papers, workshops and tutorials is THIS SUNDAY - the 7th June 2009!

The best selected papers from Academic MindTrek 2009 // Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era will be considered for inclusion as a special issue in the International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART). More special issues are expected to follow soon!

Attention!

The deadline for the submission of long papers to Academic MindTrek 2009 has been extended by 1 week, until 7th June.

You have voted the ANT as MindTrek Animal of the Year 2009. So this means that Annika Wiklund-Engblom is the lucky one that will get a free two-day ticket to the MindTrek Conference on Oct 1-2.

The arguments that won you over are the following: “The ant is a great representative of social media; the prosumers and participatory designers of the anthill. Each ant is important and contributes with its own part in the social system. Together they build infrastructures in endless patterns. The ant queen symbolizes the theme, which pulls the ants together much like any open source structure.”

The ant will appear as a visual mascot of MindTrek 2009.