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Blending the Physical and the Digital World

Nowadays more and more creatives tend to follow the same processes, starting and finishing their projects on the computer. We try to find inspiration from other professionals, a convenient source that often leads us to an infinite loop.Different design processes can lead to unique outcomes. The digital world offers us all these exciting tools, but it sometimes feels that it lacks a tactile materiality. The physical world can do so many amazing things, but it is the digital one that makes everything possible!It is up to us to choose whether we want to be camouflaged within somebody else’s approach, or to discover unexplored areas of design through a journey into blending the analogue and digital worlds.

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Tina Touli is a creative director, graphic communication designer, maker, speaker and educator. She currently runs her own London based multidisciplinary studio, and teaches at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She works in a great variety of design fields, including print and digital design, with different clients, such as Adobe, Dell, HP, Ciroc Vodka, Fiorucci, Tate, Converse, Kappa and Movement Festival. She had the honour to be selected by Print Magazine as one of the 15 best young designers in the world, aged under 30 (2017). Her work has been featured in Communication Arts magazine, Computer Arts magazine, Digital Arts magazine and Creative Review blog among others and design publications such as “Design{h}ers” by Viction:ary. She has been invited to present her work in various events and conferences all over the world, as for example at FITC Amsterdam and the Bump Festival.

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Upcycling the Global Food Waste Scandal.

Toast Ale upcycles unsold bread into beer and pours profits into environmental charities struggling to improve the food system; Toast thus transforms a global food waste crisis into something we can all celebrate. Tristram Stuart, founder of Toast Ale, has run a lifelong campaign against food waste, always pursuing the maxim that “if you want to save the world, you have to throw a better party than those destroying it”.

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Tristram Stuart is an international award-winning author, speaker, campaigner and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food. His books have been described as “a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas” (The Times). Although he no longer has a formal role at the environmental charity he founded, Feedback (www.feedbackglobal.org), it continues to work to regenerate nature by transforming our food system. He is also the founder of Toast Ale (www.toastale.com) which upcycles unsold fresh bread into award-winning craft beer. 100% of Toast’s distributable profits go to Feedback and other aligned charities worldwide. After 3 years of operations, Toast saved more than 1 million slices of bread from going to waste.Tristram is an official UN Champion of SDG 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030. He won the international environmental award in 2011, The Sophie Prize. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

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Vision without execution is a daydream - lessons learned in product development for a circular economy

This session will provide a deepdive into how Better Future Factory has created a successful commercial company with a focus on sustainable plastic product development, creating wider social benefits and following innovative business models. In addition, the session will discuss the lessons they learned along the way and the opportunities and challenges for the next generation of sustainable entrepreneurs.

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Casper van der Meer (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 1987) studied Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. He is co-founder and ceo of Better Future Factory, a sustainable design and engineering studio based in Rotterdam the Netherlands. Their work is focused on helping companies move to sustainable plastics.

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Seb Lee-Delisle is a digital artist and speaker who specialises in large scale interactive light installations.His work is a celebration of technology that encourages interaction and playfulness from the public. Drawing on his previous experience as a game programmer, he works with electronics, lasers and high power projectors to bring his artworks to life. Notable projects include Laser Light Synths, super bright bespoke synthesisers with laser visuals for the public to play, and PixelPyros, the Arts Council funded digital fireworks display that toured nationwide in 2013. A regular speaker on the international conference circuit, he likes to demystify programming and explore its artistic possibilities. His presentations and workshops enable artists to overcome their fear of code and encourage programmers of all backgrounds to be more creative and imaginative. Laser Light Synths won the 2016 Lumen Interactive Prize. He won 3 Microsoft awards in 2013, and he was Technical Director on Big and Small, the BBC project that won a BAFTA in 2009.

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Dieser Talk wird auf englisch gehalten.

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Dr. James Beacham is a particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where he hunts for evidence of dark matter, gravitons, quantum black holes, and dark photons as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. In addition to his research, he is a frequent speaker at popular sci/tech/art events around the world, and regularly appears on radio shows, podcasts, and in documentaries. His talk, “How we explore unanswered questions in physics”, was featured on TED.com and has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. Beacham trained as a filmmaker before becoming a physicist and regularly collaborates with artists.