While working as Editor at the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam, in 1998, I served on the Programming Team for the fifth Doors of Perception conference, on the theme of Play, along with NDI director John Thackara, Michiel Schwarz, Jouke Kl…

 

While working as Editor at the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam, in 1998, I served on the Programming Team for the fifth Doors of Perception conference, on the theme of Play, along with NDI director John Thackara, Michiel Schwarz, Jouke Kleerebezem, and Dick van Dijk. The conference was organized in sections on PLAY/TIME, GAME/PLAY, PLAY/SCHOOL, PLAY/CHANNELS, PLAY/INC and DESIGN/PLAY. Held at the historic Beurs van Berlage building in central Amsterdam, the conference featured an international roster of speakers, many of who also contributors to, or profiled in, the book  IF/THEN: PLAY — Design Implications of New Media, which I edited and which was published to coincide with the conference.