This has been a busy week with many amazing experiences I would have liked to share here...- like the visit to the Danish Nokia Headquarters (building is so cool I want to work there); discussing Danish immigrations politics with an engineer from Iraq; and at choir rehersal meeting an absolutely unique song teacher who very vividly translated singing techniques into words. And the week came to a great conclusion with a seminar on Design Theory Friday and Saturday organised by our department. I have been helping out with practical advice and hands, sharing my experience from the conference I organised last year (CGDC) and I have much enjoyed this sharing - it annoys me immensely when this kind of knowledge is NOT been circulated in an organision like ITU - it's such a precious waste of time...(I mean if an IT institution cannot handle knowledge sharing and management who then?....but that is a looong discussion).
Anyway, though many of the presentations did not relate to my work, especially some of the presentations on the second day contained some interesting thoughts - an Art Historian had some good points relating to the ontology of virtual spaces and some very beautiful images to show of it. And an interesting follow-up will be a lunch with a Media Sociologist and a Philosopher (phd.stipends like me) to discuss various interpretations of communication models ...For once the cross-disciplinary thing actually works in practice!

And I had great fun acting as a digital photographer - I managed to hold on to the camera most of the time and have taken A LOT of pictures which you should be able to find here - some are already online, the rest will be uploaded monday. And there is one of me in the official ITU outfit here.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 22:00