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Suren Erkman is an entrepreneur and a professor at the University of Lausanne, and a specialist of industrial ecology. We are living in a hyperindustrial society where the usage of energy and materials keeps increasing. He uses... |
What happens when global games meet local culture? In this talk, Florence Chee discusses the idea of games as a medium of communication and how it may look the same or different depending on where in the world you may find... |
What is Art ? In a witty presentation Memi Beltrame introduce his project Artypedia. Artypedia is a Wiki located at http://artypedia.org Its point is to challenge the general... |
Jennifer has been behind the scenes - or rather tucked away in a booth - at Lift for the past 4 years. Listening to and interpreting speakers talking about how technology is changing - and will continue to change - how we work.... |
Alp ICT hosted their third venture night during Lift11. Following the successful 2008 and 2010 experiences that saw eight startups present in front of the audience, more startups were given the chance to accelerate their... |
To soothe the stress of travel, today’s mobile individuals (neo-nomads) engage in tactics of re:location, recreating an image of home but producing a lot of waste. The spaces /objects designed with mobility in mind should focus... |
How to built your own cosmos ? In a whimsical attempt to eradicate the narrative debate from the game design process, David Calvo defines an ethic of development, an “affectionate anarchism” leading back to the original source... |
Alex Osterwalder is the best-selling author of Business Model Generation. He tells us how organizations start approaching the challenge of designing business models in a radically new way. Companies learn how to test their... |
The Sun is our closest and most important star, and is important to study because of its major impact on our planet, and therefore on our lives. This talk looks at the latest global research into solar activity and the stunning... |
Nick Coates of Promise Communities explains the fundamental rules that make co-creation possible. He shows how an idea that has been around for decades is being put back into the spotlight by communication technologies, and... |
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