“PUENTE” stands for bridge and, in this case, the bridge connects the young and the elder or, more generally, new-comers and old-timers to a place, or a community: PUENTE identifies conditions that may draw folks who wouldn’t otherwise meet to do things they couldn’t otherwise do [learn from each other, respect one another, broaden their views]. Combining different approaches, such as case studies and participatory design techniques, the team imagines events and activities that enable participants to unveil aspects of their “personae” that would otherwise remain untapped. The settings and places created are reflective of the changing identities and dreams of its dwellers. For more information on the project, and partners involved, check out the PUENTE website . Also check out PUENTE

Note: Project PUENTE (2007-2009) has evolved out of earlier EU Project "La Piazza". Information on Piazza can be found on this blog, in the same category "projects". You may also visit the site

Next time you’re trying to explain why this “Social Bookmarking” thing is all the rage, you know what video to play. The video sits on the delicious blog, under the title: How to explain delicious to your parents. Meanwhile, I started to use delicious - happily - and, by now, there may be enough entries for others to want to peek into my site

Looking at the world from inside the giant camera in San Francisco is awesome. Based on a design by Leonardo, the camera produces 360 degrees of spectacular live images of the Seal Rock Area. Magnified on a gigantic parabolic table, the projected images are exquisitely sharp, vivid in color, and textured. It is like looking at a painting by Vermeer (who used a camera obscura) but with the clouds, waves, and birds slowly moving on the white semi-gloss ceramic surface of the parabolic table. For more on Vermeer and camera obscura, visit the site

I cannot think of a better resource for anyone interested in the human uses of [hu]man-made artifacts: from the evocative powers of things (made or found) to the creative approriation by people (repurposing); from the love affairs between certain people and certain things (intimate rapport) to the abandonment of those things initially seductive yet unable to hold their promise (rejection). Main sections of the site include: audiences (kids, elders, teens), culture (architecture, identity, mobility), business (branding, innovation, technology), design (co-creation, presence, interaction), media ( book, blog, mobile, play virtual worlds), and methods (ethnography, senarios, user research).

For daily insights on these and related issues, visit the experientia blog

This week, I participated in the first of a series of workshops to be held at OLPC and in countries to strengthen local teams' approaches to learning when deploying one laptop per child. Even at early phases in the project, the richness and diversity of uses in different countries exceeded my wildest expectations. This is clearly a case where we [olpc learning team] will learn as much from the children's—and teachers'—creative appropriations as they will learn from us! To know more about olpc's learning vision, and pilot projects around the world, visit the olpc wicki for educators



To hear my talk, check out YouTube snippets clip one and clip two