Marco Susani
is Director of the Domus Academy Research Center in Milan, where his projects focus on interaction design, telecommunications, multimedia and innovative interface devices. He is involved in the i3, the European Union press dedicated to the research of intelligent information interfaces. He co-wrote the "connected community" proposal for i3, which examines the use of information by communities of ordinary people. His work was shown at the Triennale di Milano, Memphis Gallery, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Axis Gallery in Tokyo. Mr. Susani was a partner of Sottsass Associati in Milan and a consultant at Olivetti Design Studio. Information + meaning = knowledge? The most visionary perception of the knowledge potential of the net is to define it as a kind of Collective Intelligence, where information generated by many is diffused, and interacts with, the reactions of the millions accessing the web. However, most of the recent development of web sites still refers to the conventional paradigm of publishing from one (institution) to many (individuals), and the exponential diffusion of e-commerce uses the same paradigm. The web is still mostly a repository of information more than a networked collective space, and most of the social interaction potential of the net is yet to be expressed. In order to transform the net into a new medium, able to subvert the generation of knowledge, work in these three areas is fundamental: a - A transformation of the mechanisms of creation and annotation of information into sophisticated participatory media b - A stronger connection between the digital information and local physical communities as well as material social practices c - Innovative interaction paradigms alternative to the use of PCs for individuals to access the web The development of new design processes, new technologies and new interaction solutions in these three fields can lead to a new perspective in the generation and in the sedimentation of networked information, based on the collective creation and annotation of information. This perspective will be presented through examples of some projects: - Knowledge management systems based on apprentice learning processes - Corporate intranet systems based on conversation and word-of-mouth support - Local publishing systems distributed on the territory, based on sharing experiences and on the collective annotation of information - Civic networks systems with public access to support the collective memory of a neighborhood The culture generated and transmitted through these innovative participatory media has more resemblance to the oral transmission of knowledge: imperfect but human. Through social models of sedimentation of information, they hope to support the creation of a shared meaning, that can facilitate the transformation of networked information into collective knowledge and experience. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
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