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  • Esther Weltevrede
  • Url: http://weltevrede.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 25
  • About the user: Esther Weltevrede is a second year Media Studies Research Master student at the University of Amsterdam. Before studying New Media she attended the School of Arts in Breda where she received a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design. She is involved as researcher and coordinator in the recently founded Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam. DMI is dedicated to developing tools and methods for researching the ‘natively digital.’ Since this summer she is a member of GovComOrg, a foundation dedicated to creating and hosting political tools on the Web. Currently she is a part-time teacher Information Visualization at Master Editorial Design, Utrecht School of Art, and part-time teacher Public Design at Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

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Construction time! Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

Esther Weltevrede | 26 September 2007, 9:20 am | tags: , , , ,

Projects are ready to be prototyped and build. This monday all participants are working individually or with a small number of people on parts of the projects. You might think a “hackers camp” only includes hardware and software hacking and tweaking. Today there was however some old style building going on with hammers and saws. Transforming our hackers into wood…

Social experiences with RFID: Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

Esther Weltevrede | 26 September 2007, 9:16 am | tags: , , , ,

This workshop is technical. It should include RFID. However, the aim of the projects is to make something for people. After some great technical and sometimes geeky first ideas for the projects, in the morning session we looked at the projects individually to see if we can twist the concepts into something more social. The aim is not only to…

Kick off! Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

Esther Weltevrede | 24 September 2007, 11:31 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

RFID hackers together in hteir HQ - At picnic 07

RFID Hackers Camp kicks off at Westergasfabriek, the PICNIC 07 location. With a group of great hackers, designers and engineers the camp aims to bring together creativity, knowledge, and skills from various fields and disciplines to realize innovative and creative uses of RFID technology. Within only five days a number of projects will be created for…

Reflections on Uses of Blogs

Esther Weltevrede | 16 September 2007, 10:04 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Cross-posted at Politics of Many Minds

Uses of Blogs
From the perspective of Politics of Many Minds, and doing research into the ‘natively digital’ more general, the book Uses of Blogs provided me some interesting thoughts on investigating blogging and the blogosphere. This post is therefore not so much a review, but more a personal research reflection on Uses of…

242 seconds of fame – “Vers geperst”

Esther Weltevrede | 22 May 2007, 6:59 pm | tags: , , ,

Graduate students Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam are organizing Vers Geperst. Inspired by the concept Pecha Kucha, a presentation format for creative work originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003. The format has spread to many cities across the world.

Vers Geperst is an informal gathering that

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CiteULike – Sharing academic papers

Esther Weltevrede | 01 April 2007, 12:48 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

CiteULike is a free service where academics can share, store, and organise academic papers they are reading. You can add papers on the web that interests you with one click button to your personal library. You can share your library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover…

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 5

Esther Weltevrede | 25 November 2006, 9:50 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Winners Innovation LabThe Innovation Lab 2006 winner of the 10.000 euro price for further development is Blendid. Chairman of the jury, Frank Alsema, presented the price to David Kousemaker and Tim Olden, with their project ‘Sound World: Audio-Augmented Experiences’. This Innovation Lab has been realized by Media Guild assigned by ICTRegie.

Projects description:
Walk around in…

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 4

Esther Weltevrede | 25 November 2006, 7:03 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Day 4 is the last day before the big pitch on Friday. Frank Boyd introduces the day with a session on what to think about in the presentation. Today is about pitching. Pitching is about inner preparation, outer preparation, clarification and thinking about the question: at what point did the project pitch you? After this short session the teams go…

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 3

Esther Weltevrede | 25 November 2006, 4:41 pm | tags: , , , , ,

During day 3 and 4 the teams work on their own project. The experts visit the teams during the day to give personal feedback. On day 3 a special guest accompanies the expert group: chairman of the jury Frank Alsema . Day 3 is focused on the question: What is the big idea of the project? The teams…

Broadband/HD Innovation Lab – day 2

Esther Weltevrede | 24 November 2006, 5:04 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Day 2 is about users. More specifically today is about understanding and applying user centered design methods. Tracy Currer is leading today’s session. Tracy Currer is an interaction design consultant and is an experienced guide in innovative processes.

The purpose of today is two-folded. The first aim is to get into the mind and shoes of the target…