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Gel speaker update - Jan Gehl, Ted Dewan, Douglas Rushkoff
Two new speakers for euroGel 2006 (Sept. 1 in Copenhagen):
• From Britain, Ted Dewan (bio), who recently pioneered a new way to slow traffic on his residential street
• Danish architect Jan Gehl (website), another proponent of transportation alternatives. Quoted in the New York Times, in this Nov. 18 story:
Mr. Gehl echoed the sentiments of the business district leaders. "I have the feeling that not too much has happened here with the aesthetic quality of the city - the feeling of moving around it - as in other cities," he said. "Automobiles have invaded our cities and squeezed everyone else to the side."
And Douglas Rushkoff '06 is quoted in yesterday's New York Times, accurately describing the proper place of realism in game design:
Video games, he said, should be less like movies, not more. "This is an age-old thing going back to Pong," said Mr. Rushkoff, who describes himself as an enthusiastic gamer. "What made Pong so exciting was not its accurate depiction of Ping-Pong or its relationship to reality. It was the ability to move pixels around on the screen, and an appreciation for the way the game designer is working in metaphor. "
Here's the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04lela.html
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