Use this place as a jumpboard to the previous Doors of Perception conferences archive (within their original interface) Doors 1 (1993) The first Doors 2 (1994) Home Doors 3 (1995) Info-eco Doors 4 (1996) Speed Doors 5 (1998) Play Doors 6 (2000) Lightness Doors East 1 (2000) Doors 7 (2002) Flow Doors East 2 (2003) Tomorrow's Services Doors 8 (2005) Infra Doors 1 (1993) The first We did the first conference in 1993 to find out what the Internet meant for design - and vice versa. There was a lot of talk in the US about teleshopping, and video-on-demand. This sounded boring, so we organised Doors to consider more exciting and useful alternatives. The result was more excitement than answers, but at least we added a critical note to the debate about the role of ICTs.  visit the website  Doors 2 (1994) Home DOORS 2 was about connectivity and 'home' - as a place, but also as an idea. Many big companies then (as now) saw home as a place where they could download content, and upload money. The outcome of Doors 2 was a consensus that designers should insist, where possible, on two-way channels of communication - and act as 'editors' of technology where the home is concerned.  visit the website  Doors 3 (1995) Info-eco DOORS 3 was on the theme of 'info-eco' - the interaction of information technology and environmental sustainability. Two huge issues! This was one of the first events to bring 'info' and 'eco' people together. The result was a chaotic but dynamic week: many projects and alliances spawned at that event are still going strong today.  visit the website  Doors 4 (1996) Speed DOORS 4 was all about 'speed'. Ivan Illich argued that designers should be critical of speed as an end in itself. Many of the Doors delegates hated the idea - they wanted more speed, at any cost. This was another reminder that the Doors crowd has several minds of its own! The key outcome of Doors 4 was a feeling that 'fast information, slow matter,' was a feasible design and innovation strategy.  visit the website  Doors 5 (1998) Play DOORS 5 had the theme of 'play'. The event brought the computer games crowd into contact with learning experts. People thought that the computer games they saw were mostly great, and the e-learning products mostly awful. We wanted to know: is there a way to capture the creative power of play for work, and for learning? Doors 5 put the design of learning environments strongly on the agenda.  visit the website  Doors 6 (2000) Lightness DOORS 6 was on 'lightness'. Our speakers touched lightly on everything from cities to software - with a dig at 'software bloat' along the way. As a design strategy, lightness appeals to both designers and entrepreneurs: you can't have too much of it. The outcome of Doors 6 was a commitment among many participants to re-think the design of every product, service, and place in terms of matter and energy performance.  visit the website  Doors East 1 (2000) The purpose of our memorable week in Ahmedabad, India, at the National Institute of Design, was to accelerate the exchange of people, knowledge and experiences among Indian and European designers and internet entrepreneurs. We wanted to know: what can western interaction designers learn from Indian design and internet culture? and, what are the prospects for future joint work between the two communities? The answers were: a lot, and fantastic. We looked at the design of services enabled by the internet in a South Asia context, and discussed the relationships between information technology, development , and environmental sustainability.  visit the website  Doors 7 (November 2002) DOORS 7 in Amsterdam was about the design challenge of pervasive computing. A wide variety of designers, thinkers and entrepreneurs addressed the questions: what are we to make of the trillions of smart tags, sensors, smart materials, connected appliances, wearable computing, and soon implants, that are now being unleashed upon the world? To what question are they an answer? Who is going to look after them, and how? And what social consequences will follow when every object around us becomes smart, and connected?  visit the website  Doors East 2 (2003) Tomorrow's Services What principles should inform the design of network-based services in new contexts? What tools and methodologies are available for mapping local knowledge? The aim of Doors East 2, in Bangalore, was to learn how to design services, enabled by ICT, that meet basic needs in new ways - and to share this knowledge with citizens, education, industry, and professionals. We called Doors East 2 a "working party" because it was also a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Doors of Perception.  visit the website  Doors 8 (2005) Infra The theme of Doors 8 was Infra. The word is short for infrastructure - but infrastructure of a new kind. Our aim was to shift the policy and business agenda away from top-down, technology-push innovation. We wanted to find out what platforms are needed to enable bottom-up social innovation - and how to design them. For the first time, we staged the main Doors Encounter in New Delhi. India has a lot to teach us about shared-use models of communication, and new ways of using - and paying for - devices and networks.  visit the website