Systems/Layers Walkshop :: May 11, 2011; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm :: Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins, Southampton Row, London.

Systems/Layers is a half-day ‘Walkshop’, held in two parts. The first portion of the activity is dedicated to a slow and considered walk through a reasonably dense and built-up section of the city. What we’re looking for are appearances of the networked digital in the physical, and vice versa: apertures through which the things that happen in the real world drive the ‘network weather,’ and contexts in which that weather affects … what people see, confront and are able to do.

Participants are asked to pay particular attention to:

• Places where information is being collected by the network.
• Places where networked information is being displayed.
• Places where networked information is being acted upon, either by people directly, or by physical systems that affect the choices people have available to them.

This portion of the day will take around 90 minutes, after which participants will gather at CSM’s Innovation Centre to map, review and discuss the things they’ve encountered. An hour will be given over for this, but discussions can go on for as long as participants wish. Please bring a camera if you can.

Do Projects’s Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim will run the workshop, with the assistance of Sam Kinsley from the Digital Cultures Research Centre.

Adam Greenfield was Nokia’s Head of Design Direction before recently forming his own company, and is author of ‘Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing.’

Systems/Layers ‘Walkshop’ is hosted by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and supported by the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England.

The event is ticketed and costs £24 per participant.

As there are limited places, early booking is essential.