Sketching in Hardware 2
A summit on the design of/with physical computing toolkits.

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June 23-24, 2007

Mechanics' Institute Library, San Francisco

The act of sketching defines and redefines boundaries. Everyone who makes sketches, whether on paper, in software or, increasingly, in hardware. Sketching may begin with an idea, but the process fundamentally changes that idea. Sketches identify both what an idea is, and what it is not. They serve as histories and illustrations. Sketching tools simultaneously help and constrain the possibilities of sketching. Make a new sketching tool and new boundaries appear, while old ones dissolve.

This year's theme is Boundary Conditions

Through discussion, experience and sketching we will examine the boundaries in developing physical computing: boundaries between components, between standards, between making objects and creating experiences, between cost and sustainability, between the expected and the unorthodox, and between creator and toolkit.

Sketching in Hardware 2 will be a two day meeting of people intimately involved in this field to discuss the ideas, methods, challenges and potential of physical computing technologies.

BACKGROUND: SKETCHING IN HARDWARE 1

The program from Sketching in Hardware 1, June 2006, includes links to notes and many of the presentations given there.

DETAILS
The summit will be held on June 23-24, 2007 at the Mechanics' Institute Library in downtown San Francisco . The Mechanics' Institute Library is the oldest library on the West Coast and a cornerstone of the technological development of San Francisco , which became a major worldwide center of innovation in metal, mining and shipping, rivaling today's Silicon Valley in its impact on the world.

The conference hotel is the Executive Hotel Vintage Court.
Dinner on Saturday, June 23 will be at Cafe Bastille, with drinks at House of Shields beforehand.
A map with all of the conference locations is available here.

CONTACT
Mike Kuniavsky: mikek (at) sketching07.com