Announcing…geeKyoto 2008 - Living In The Changed World 10:00 - 16:30 - Saturday 17th May 2008. Conway Hall, London. £20.

We broke the world. Now what?

Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we’ll live in it.

Inspired by TED and last year’s Interesting2007 event, we are holding our own conference in London to look into the theme that interest us: change in the world.

We have curated a day that will be inspiring and insightful. We think you’ll leave having learnt something new, with new ways to look at the world and how it changes, and new strategies and models of thought for further action.

geeKyoto 2008 is a cross-discipline event, targeted at everybody with an interest in the world we live in.

Speaking so far we have:

• Adrian Hon - ARG Games Designer, http://www.sixtostart.com/ & http://mssv.net/)
• Christian Nold - Artist (http://www.softhook.com)
• Gavin Starks(http://www.amee.cc/)
• Alex Haw - Architect
• Ben Saunders - Explorer, Speaker (http://www.bensaunders.com/)
• DIY Kyoto
• Richard Sandford - Futurelab
• Adam Thorpe - Vexed Generation & Design Against Crime (Central St. Martins)

With more to be confirmed. Book your tickets here.

I’m back from Munich, ex-DLD, putting this final edit of Laura W’s test shoot online, deep in cunning plans, and preparing to cook the notable gourmand and fine food writer Graham Holliday dinner on Friday. This is obviously asking for trouble. I thusly offer you the finest of linkage this week, which in the spirit of my brand-dropping co-conferencee Tyler Brulé, are mostly culled from my new Gmund notebook. The new moleskines, I tell you. All of DLD is on video here, which is awesome watching. Although, I’m not alone in thinking Martha Stewart was really bad, but, hey, at least it was funny. But perhaps not as funny as the no-show of Naomi Campbell, who was meant to be interviewing the President of Rwanda - no, I have no idea why either - and instead decided to lock herself in her hotel room and have a strop. At least this is according to one of the organisers, who proclaimed that “she iz scweeemink und scweeemink” and that they were going on without her. Much better was Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter getting totally badass (and teaching Dawkins some new stuff) on the Monday morning. The one I’m waiting for - it’s not online yet - was Bjarne Ingels of the Bjarke Ingels Group architecture firm of Copenhagen. Utterly great. Also lovely, at least by the underlining in my notebook, Neri Oxman, Patrik Schumacher, Greg Lynn coffee cups for Alessi, You Are Not Here. Battlefield Heroes, 19,20,21, Nine Million, and RMB City, by Cao Fei - China Tracy in Second Life - with whom I’ll be working later this year, as part of my ongoing projects at the Serpentine Gallery. Not speaking, but mentioned in passing, www.addmagic.de puts adverts dynamically into the scenery of online video. Zero Punctuation - the best online video games reviews ever made, PP Live - a Chinese Joost, only 2 years and 20 million people earlier, and LiquidMac. Not to forget ZooZoom’s Blue Angel and John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity. Most inspiring? Taryn Simon’s photography.