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The past weeks I have been working on The Art Center Global Dialogues: Disruptive Thinking event today in Barcelona, a series of on-stage conversations with internationally renowned thinkers in many fields whose “disruptive” ideas and actions challenge convention, break current paradigms, and inspire positive changes in the larger world. Unlike traditional conferences, the Art Center Global Dialogues will pair these speakers with influential media figures—including highly regarded editors, publishers, and reporters—in vital exchanges that encourage the development of new ideas.

Huh? A bit out of tune of what I regularely do and post here you might think, but I do it because this project is an experiment and tries to connect people and ideas where they might not be connected at first sight. It’s easy to communicate from within a niche group and amongst tech geeks, but it’s more difficult to communicate the way we do , using the tools we use amongst the unconnected. This is not the only reason of course, The Art Center College of Design is a model and the speakers tomorrow are all unique and extraordinary in what they do. The event tomorrow is an experiment, I have been sizing the spirits and ideas during the whole week here in Barcelona and I’m looking forward to the event itself.

To make this event a truly global conversation we set up some tools to follow and interact with the speakers and live conversations from the web or on your phone.

Live Video Stream

We setup an Art Center Global Dialogues Ustream.tv live video stream including the possibility to interact with the audience through a live chat. The live video stream will run on Friday, March 7 from 9am till 6:30pm CET. Here’s the direct link to the overview page
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/art-center-global-dialogues

Global Dialogues on Twitter

We also set up a twitter stream for live interaction and questions and live micro blogging from the conference. All you need to do is set up a Twitter account here, then go http://twitter.com/globaldialogues. Send your thoughts, observations, and interact even with the moderator on stage! Follow the Dialogues from you mobile phone by pointing your mobile phone browser to m.twitter.com/globaldialogues.

Global Dialogues on Flickr

We setup a Art Center Global Dialogues Flickr Group for people to send their pictures during (and after) the event, direct here http://www.flickr.com/groups/globaldialogues/. Feel free to send us your pictures of the event, anyone can join!

Live Blogging

There will be some live blogging and commenting from some people in the audience on the Global Dialogues Blog here - http://blog.globaldialogues.eu

All set for a great event, hope to see you tomorrow!