That’s a nice number, 150. One-hundred-and-fifty. I like the sound of that. So what’s been going on this week? <\/p>\n
I hopped on a plane last Sunday to the Netherlands for This happened \u2013 Utrecht #6<\/a>. Wouldn’t miss out on my own party, of course. And I’m so glad I didn’t, because we had awesome talks by Berend & Sanneke<\/a>, Matt<\/a>, Sebastiaan<\/a> and Keez<\/a>, plus a surprise appearance over Skype by Mr. Buxton<\/a>. The room was packed, interaction designers of all stripes were chatting away beforehand, during the break and afterwards over drinks. I had a blast and judging by the reports<\/a> that have been coming in, so have many others.<\/p>\n Before heading back to the Netherlands the next day I managed to squeeze in a few meetings. One of those was for PLAY which, now that I’ve wrapped up project Tako,1<\/a><\/sup> is ready to move into its next phase. We’re planning to produce several playful ‘things’ for a number of cultural events and tie them all together with a meta-game. It’s a matter of getting all the right people on board now and getting going as fast as possible. So I’ve a list of folks to contact in the coming days.<\/p>\n I think I broke a personal record for the number of Skype sessions in one day on Wednesday, with back to back talks with my HKU students as well as a planning session with Karel and Julius<\/a> for an urban games workshop they’ll be running tomorrow in Leidsche Rijn.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n And today, after spending Ascension day on a couch, plugging away at email and to-dos, I’ll be making the trip across the \u00d8resund to Malm\u00f6 in a bus full of makers and interaction designers to attend ThoughtMade<\/a>, which I’m really excited about; an exhibition and talks including a candy machine controlled by Twitter<\/a>. What more can one ask for?<\/p> That’s a nice number, 150. One-hundred-and-fifty. I like the sound of that. So what’s been going on this week? I hopped on a plane last Sunday to the Netherlands for This happened \u2013 Utrecht #6. Wouldn’t miss out on my own party, of course. And I’m so glad I didn’t, because we had awesome talks … Continue reading Week 150<\/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":[791,42,774,168,746,715,808],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","tag-cultuur19","tag-hku","tag-leidsche-rijn","tag-play","tag-tako","tag-this-happened--utrecht","tag-thoughtmade"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}