After the great success last year’s Mobile Design Session, we would like to invite you to the first Mobile Design Conference, an interactive one-day conference inviting professionals to discuss and co-create around the theme of “the networked city”. The conference is organized by dotopen and the Barcelona Design Centre (BCD) and is scheduled on October 21, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) during the Barcelona Design Week.

The Program:

Morning Conference: Designing for the Networked City
Knowing that currently more than 80% of Europeans and over 51% of the world live in cities urges us to better understand how these new mobile ecosystems work. Particularly navigating the complex relationships between mobile technologies, infrastructure, private and public stakeholders becomes increasingly important for any designer working in this space.

We’re inviting some of the most forward-thinking leaders in Mobile, Co-Creation, and Urban Design who will share their view on the role of design in an increasingly complex ecosystem and the challenges they see lying ahead: designing mobile services for a total mobile user city experience, respecting the needs of the user within her environment. We’ll have keynotes from:

• Kevin Slavin – Co-Founder and Chairman of AREA/CODE Entertainment
• Matt Jones – Director of Design at BERG
• Usham Haque – Director of HAQUE Design + Research Ltd
• Fabien Girardin – Co-Founder of Lift Lab

*Session in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish

Afternoon Workshop – MDC Lab: Co-Creating for the Networked City
This years’ Mobile Design Conference is proud to present the MDC Lab: a co-creation workshop lead by Liz Sanders with expert participation of the Mobile Design Conference speakers Kevin Slavin, Matt Jones, Usham Haque, Fabien Girardin.
In this unique opportunity, you will interact with some of the industry’s leading innovators co-creating 2D and 3D visualizations of ideas and challenges around the future of networked urbanism. Combined with the industry insight of our speakers you will experience state of the art user centered design methodologies. This workshop is aimed at professionals interested in the outlook and potential of Mobile Technologies and Urban Living.

*Session in English

You can register here to both events.

See you there!