This Thursday (Oct 21st) Kate Bellingham of the BBC hosts a live chat with Open Planet Ideas program participants Dax Lovegrove (World Wildlife Fund) and Ben Moore (Sony) to discuss how you can get involved with the program's current phase of design collaboration.
With the establishment of recently announced eco-design themes, participants are now tasked with the fun assignment of appropriating existing defined showcase technologies like GPS, portable gaming, and RFID to be used in new and interesting ways in tackling environmental challenges.
How might a PSP gaming device be used outside of its commercial gaming context to address environmental impact? Or better yet, how might gaming frameworks create incentive based systems for participants to practice better environmental behaviors. These are the types of questions you're asked to explore while concepting.
Tune in at Studiotalk.tv and post your questions via twitter using hashtag #studiotalk this Thursday at 3pm BST (UK).
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