{"id":1648,"date":"2010-01-27T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:55:46","slug":"week-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/27\/week-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 135"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to squeeze in a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kmt.hku.nl\/\">HKU KMT faculty&#8217;s<\/a> project market in Hilversum on thursday last week. It\u2019s an annual presentation of work done for external clients by graduate students. I coached one of those projects, which was done for the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.nokia.com\/\">Nokia Research Center<\/a>. They did a good job of presenting a complicated concept, which revolves around encouraging office workers to commute in a greener manner by tracking their travels on a mobile and giving them a real live plant to take care of with the water they earn based on this collected data\u2026 You should see it. Other favorites of mine were: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/projectlumen.tumblr.com\/\">Lumen<\/a>; a series of urban projections in Utrecht which were executed with high polish<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8884840\">Homeostasis<\/a>; a beautiful expressive interactive art piece created for Crossing Border festival<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bamboo.wacom.eu\/minis\/en\/#\/mini\/PaperCakes\">Paper Cakes<\/a>; a cool game designed for Wacom\u2019s Bamboo Minis platform, which thematically and mechanically makes excellent use of the target input device<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1648\" id=\"identifier_1_1648\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"The HKU and Wacom first met at This happened &ndash; Utrecht #2. It&rsquo;s also been nominated for an IGF student award, so we could not resist inviting this project to the next edition.\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project market always coincides with an alumni reception, which means reconnecting with a lot of old friends too.<\/p>\n<p>Project Tako is in full swing now. I talked to two organizations on friday and will be seeing six more this week. It\u2019s a privilege to meet all these people, who produce some of Utrecht\u2019s finest cultural festivals. Lots of ideas for playful additions to their programs have already started to emerge. I\u2019ll need to develop them further in the coming weeks. It\u2019s also striking how each and every one of them keeps office in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaeru\/tags\/tako\/\">beautiful building<\/a>. Biking through my home town from meeting to meeting reminds me of how pretty it actually is.<\/p>\n<p>One can never be too busy, so this monday we announced the next <a href=\"http:\/\/thishappened.org\/utrecht\/\">This happened \u2013 Utrecht<\/a>. The line-up consists of Daan Roosegaarde on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioroosegaarde.net\/\">Liquid Space 6.0<\/a>, Stella Boess &#038; Stefan Gross on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefangross.nl\/love_hate_punch.html\">Love Hate Punch<\/a>, Bas Teunisse &#038; Lex van den Berg on <a href=\"http:\/\/bamboo.wacom.eu\/minis\/en\/#\/mini\/PaperCakes\">Paper Cakes<\/a> and Govert de Vries on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinxs.com\/\">Swinxs<\/a>. The events is scheduled for monday 22 february. As usual I\u2019ve been scrambling to get the website ready, send out the emails and make sure the venue is all set. Good thing I have <a href=\"http:\/\/data-overload.com\">Alexander<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/forinspirationonly.com\/\">Ianus<\/a> to take care of a lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But for the most part this week, I\u2019m continuing design at <a href=\"http:\/\/layar.com\/\">Layar<\/a>. The first reviews of some initial bits have been scheduled so we\u2019ll see how that goes.<\/p><ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1648\" class=\"footnote\">The HKU and Wacom first met at This happened \u2013 Utrecht #2. It&#8217;s also been nominated for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\/2010\/01\/2010_igf_reveals_student_showc.html\">IGF student award<\/a>, so we could not resist inviting this project to the next edition.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_1_1648\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to squeeze in a visit to the HKU KMT faculty&#8217;s project market in Hilversum on thursday last week. It\u2019s an annual presentation of work done for external clients by graduate students. I coached one of those projects, which was done for the Nokia Research Center. They did a good job of presenting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/27\/week-135\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 135<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[745],"tags":[42,746,715],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","tag-hku","tag-tako","tag-this-happened--utrecht"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}