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Munich Creative business Week (MCBW) takes place in Munich in various places from the 16th to 24 of Februry 2013
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
Mehr Sein als Schein | Über den Dualismus von Kreativität und Lebensanspruch
Verantwortung gestalten: Respekt und Übermut
Internationale Konferenz im Rahmen der Munich Creative Business Week (mcbw)
Welche Antworten bin ich schuldig? Und wem eigentlich? Wann zwingt mich eine Aufgabe zum Aufgeben? Entstehen durch Ideen-Recycling neue Rohstoffe? Wie viel ist genug? Was kostet die Welt? Warum wurde aus »wir« »ich«?
Wer nach neuen Fragen sucht, wird nicht auf vorgefertigten Antworten sitzen bleiben. Wer Nachhaltigkeit nicht nur zitiert, wird auf Verantwortung stoßen. Wer Respekt lebt, kann Werte nicht nur schätzen, sondern auch bergen. Nur wer mutig Tiefgang wagt, kann übermütig werden.
Internationale Konferenz »Verantwortung gestalten« der Typographischen Gesellschaft München e.V. (tgm) am 9. Februar 2012 im Literaturhaus München.
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pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
[Canon 7D | 35mm 1.4 | Ambient Light]
I've always maintained that I am my own worst c-blocker.
From time to time, a woman will find me attractive. I will think the same of her. Then I will start talking...
Within fifteen minutes of meeting said woman, I've usually managed to offer my treatise on politics, religion, race, gender and any other topic you can imagine that is widely understood as unfit for casual conversation with strangers.
In doing so I have usually managed to offend at least one of her most deeply held beliefs and she has consequently managed to not find me so hot any more.
I know most people believe that some topics are off limits; not to be discussed in polite company. I've never really bought into that. I feel like all questions, ideas, and opinions deserve to be scrutinized for truth - lest we accept an untrue belief as valid.
That's my mantra. And I don't attenuate it from anyone. Not even hot chicks. Because I secretly want to die alone.
Even though that could be easily avoided.
I could game the system. Intellectually I know the correct answer to "what church do you go to?" is "Second Third First African Baptist House of Faith in Him."
Sure, such a place doesn't exist but given the sheer ease with which multi-million dollar megachurches metastasize throughout this nation's neighborhood nodules of poverty, there's a good chance a church with that name may be christened by the time I finish saying the lie.
If I was inclined toward guile, I could probably force my mouth to eject that fictional church as a pat answer, but like I said, even though I know better I can't help but tell on myself.
Which is what I'm doing with this photo...
You see, I love Centaur. Centaur has been good to me. Its been my one and only for so long.
But one afternoon in July… I... I... I went to another bar.
I didn't plan it. It just ... happened. Really.
What? The name? Ahh, come on baby, what does it matter what the... OWW!
Ok, Ok! Its Motor City Brewing Works, ok?! We are seeing each other now, and we care a lot about each other!
Part of the reason why I came to appreciate MCBW so much is a conversation I had with the manager, Zach, who you see pictured above (at his side is Kelly, one of the bar's friendly waitresses).
I used to live in the neighborhood where the bar is located. Zach and I started talking about the improvements that have been made to the neighborhood since I moved away.
An abandoned lot on the corner of Second and Willis where junkies used to strap-off and nod out is now a thriving community garden replete with a robust, diverse crop enclosed by a beautiful wrought iron fence.
Then Zach mentioned an improvement that was initiated by the people of MCBW and a couple of adjacent businesses.
They converted the weed-infested alleyway behind the bar into a beautiful pedestrian thoroughfare paved in bricks donated (or sold at a much reduced cost, depending on who you ask) from a company in Ohio.
Much like the aforementioned abandoned lot, the alleyway had previously been a harbor for sunken ships of the human variety. Since it's been developed, there has been an corresponding drop in the unsavory activity previously common to the alleyway and the abandoned lot.
I asked Zach how much financial input the city had in the development. If I recall, he said the city gave its blessing, helped level the ground in preparation for the brick, but the thrust of the development came from the private business owners and members of the community.
I told Zach, that this is the reason why I started The People of Detroit. This is the kinda story that rarely gets told outside of the city, yet its a story that happens far more often than even residents of the city may know.
These folks took it upon themselves to improve the community they inhabit. From what I understand, it didn't cost much. From what I could gather, the project was funded by sweat, inventive thinking, and partnership more than anything else.
But they saw a problem and they addressed it. They didn't wait for someone else to do it. They didn't wait for a got damn team of weekend volunteers from a corporation to clean up their community.
They did it themselves.
Which is something the members of any community can do… soon as they realize they are their own worst c-blockers.
[View the weekdaily blog and meet more of: The People of Detroit ]
As a bonus, I've included some photos of the alley and bricks behind the bar:
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
Kalle Kormann-Philipson
User Experience & Interaction Designer, Google
Stephan Micklitz
Tech Lead and Manager - User Facing Privacy Team, Google
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
Granshan Conference 2022
21 May 2022: Conference and Award Ceremony
Munich, Literaturhaus and Live-stream
Give voice to type …
Letters surround us, and permeate our identities. The richness of typographic forms reflects the diversity of our histories: type brings us together, and gives depth and nuance to what distinguishes us. Type bridges past and future, geographical spaces and cultural domains, like no other element of our culture.
On Saturday, our venue Literaturhaus will become a lab for future forms of international and intercultural communication & collaboration. A place where we examine script and typography as an essential basis for international exchange as well as a force for identification. Only those who are visible and recognizable can enter into an open dialogue. Thematic sessions touch on topics such as multiscript design, endangered scripts/alphabets, and type as a cultural asset and identification anchor.
Granshan Conference 2022
21 May 2022: Conference and Award Ceremony
Munich, Literaturhaus and Live-stream
Give voice to type …
Letters surround us, and permeate our identities. The richness of typographic forms reflects the diversity of our histories: type brings us together, and gives depth and nuance to what distinguishes us. Type bridges past and future, geographical spaces and cultural domains, like no other element of our culture.
On Saturday, our venue Literaturhaus will become a lab for future forms of international and intercultural communication & collaboration. A place where we examine script and typography as an essential basis for international exchange as well as a force for identification. Only those who are visible and recognizable can enter into an open dialogue. Thematic sessions touch on topics such as multiscript design, endangered scripts/alphabets, and type as a cultural asset and identification anchor.