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Reporting on This happened #3

Posted March 13th 2008 under This happened

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Last week had the third in the event series This happened at the Roxy Bar & Screen in London. We are really pleased with the way it went and the direction that things are going in the future. Until the full video documentation is online, I thought it would be good to post some of the blog views that have emerged.

For photos of the event, visit flickr tag thishappened-london-0308. If you weren’t able to make the event, I’d highly recommend reading these blogs posts…

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino from Tinker (who sponsored the night) wrote a detailed report and sums up the themes of the evening.

“Few events in London care about defining interaction design like thishappend does. It’s third edition took place last Tuesday at the Roxy Bar near London Bridge and in a matter of an hour or so really framed the current challenges the field faces in industry.

First and foremost thishappened is an opportunity for interaction designers to leave their laptops and post-its behind, have a drink and a good chat with each other as there are few other industry events (this one sold out in 2 hours) and only that in itself is extremely valuable.” – Alex, Read here.

“Went to a brilliant event last night – This Happened. Short talks about interesting Intereaction Design stuff presented with a refreshing openness you don’t get in marketing and adland, where case studies are normally presented as inevitable and insightful marches to success.” – Russell Davies, Read here

“Yesterday I was at This Happened with a couple of creative technologists. If I’m going to a lot of conferences in London, I haven’t been enjoying a conference like this one for a while. I can’t really tell where it comes from yet but I guess it is the fact that they focus on stories behind projects that did happen and as it is interaction design projects, the audience tends to include more different backgrounds (architect, designer, developer, artist…)” – Vincent Thomé, Read here

“It was an absolutely enchanting evening of four talks, each running through the background to a product and its design process. It’s late and I only have a few scrabbled notes, but I want to get them down whilst the memory is fresh…” – Tom Hume, Read here

What next?

The fourth This happened will take place on Tuesday 3rd June, so register for announcements. We will launch a new website with videos & photos from each presentation and an improved booking system.

On 8-10th May Andreas, Joel and I will be at the OFFF festival in Lisbon giving a presentation about our interaction design work & a discussion about This happened.

Thanks Hayeon and Matt Jones for your photos

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