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From: willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Willem Velthoven)
Subject: Doors of Perception 2: '@HOME' Conference
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 16:51:31 +0100
Doors of Perception 2: '@HOME' Conference
4+5+6 November 1994
RAI Congress Center Amsterdam
the Netherlands
*Doors of Perception* is an important meeting point for all those
interested in the design challenge of interactivity. The first conference,
in November 1993, was attended at relatively short notice by nearly 700
people from 20 countries.
*Aim of the conference
The 1994 conference, which is organised by the Netherlands Design Institute
with Mediamatic Magazine, will further develop discussion about culture,
context and innovation. The subject's importance was well put by Terry
Winograd: 'major leaps only happen when someone has a new insight into the
larger picture, and can escape from the old context'. That is the aim of
*Doors 2*.
Speakers will focus on a particular context, 'home' - as market, as
metaphor, and as myth. Industry has great expectations for home as a site
for new products, as an outlet for entertainment and information services,
and as a place of work. But when a new technology enters a culture, the
culture changes. What does that mean for 'home'?
*Subjects
From the multiple perspectives of marketing, technology, design,
philosophy, anthropology, and psychology, speakers will consider the
cultural impact of technology on work and play, home and school, learning
and entertainment. They will compare the qualities of telematic space and
domestic space. They will
talk about real nomads and telematic nomads. They will analyse changes to our
sense of place, both public and private. They will look at the psychology
of belonging - to a family, group, or community. They will explore the
architecture of information, and the creation of shared meaning, in
virtual communities.
*Debate
The point of this debate is that uncritical assumptions, and a crude use of
'real world' metaphors about the home, can actually stifle innovation. Vast
resources are being devoted to digital versions of existing human
activities - teleshopping, video-on-demand, telecommuting; but attempts to
create entirely new uses for the technologies have been unambitious, to say
the least. Doors of Perception gives equal emphasis to thinking and doing.
It is not a trade show - neither is it exclusive: chief executives and
young creatives are equally 'at home' at this unique event.
*The organisers
Vormgevingsinstituut / Netherlands Design Institute
Tel: +31 (0)20 5516500 Fax: +31 (0)20 620 1031
e-mail: doors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mediamatic Magazine
Tel: +31 (0)20 6266262 Fax: +31 (0)20 6263793
To receive *Doors 2 electronic newsletter* send
e-mail to: listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The message should mention: 'subscribe home'
*The Speakers
*Christopher Alexander
author of 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction': After a
ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center
for Environmental Strucure published a major statement in the form of three
books which will, in their words, 'lay the basis for an entirely new
approach to architecture, building and planning, which will replace
existing ideas and practices entirely'. At the core of his books is the
idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets,
and com
munities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of
the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that
most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but
by the people.
Also author of: 'The Timeless Way of Building': The theory of architecture
implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt.
More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the
power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even
afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are
afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now,
at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms
an architecture as ancient as human society itself. Christopher Alexander
presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at
its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always
pulled the order of their world from their own being.
*John Perry Barlow
studied comparative religion, has been the lyricist for The Grateful Dead
since 1972, is an insightful writer, and co-founded, with Mitchell Kapor
and Stephen Wozniak,the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF pushes
ethical and political issues of the new media onto the international agenda
- freedom of speech, privacy, intellectual property, and other social
consequences of a network culture.
*Alfred Birnbaum
who was born in China and raised in Japan, is a noted translator in
Japanese (of such authors as Murakami), an artist with the Kyoto-based
performance group 'Dumb Type', and a highly original researcher of diverse
popular phenomena in contemporary Japan, which he compares to deeply rooted
Asian cultural traditions.
*'Breaking stories, eye candy and mental muesli'
as one journalist described 'Doors 1', will again feature in this year's
conference. How is interactivity to be designed? What methodologies and
management skills are needed for what is, by definition, a
multi-diciplinary activity? A keen reader of conference blurbs will also
appreciate that this paragraph has been added at artwork stage to replace
the cv of a key speaker, whose name begins with B, who has de-confirmed.
But we'll replace him.
*Amy Bruckman
a doctoral candidate at MIT, founded MediaMOO, a text-based virtual reality
environment designed as a professional on-line community for media
researchers.For her dissertation, Bruckman is creating a MUD for children
called MOOSE Crossing, designed to be an authentic context in which kids
can learn reading, writing and programming. Bruckman will explain what MUDs
and MOOs actually are in her presentation.
*Florian Brody
who studied linguistics and computer science in Vienna, investigates the
relationship between computers, memory and identity. He worked in the
Austrian National Library on automation management, and was technical
director of the 'expanded books' project at Voyager Publishing in
California, before founding New Media Consulting. He teaches at Vienna
University, and he is president of the Austrian Society for Virtuality,
Telepresence and Cyberspace.
*David Chaum
is managing director of DigiCash, an Amsterdam-based company that is a
world pioneer in electronic cash payment systems. Dr Chaum is also chairman
of CAFE, the European Union research consortium investigating the technical
infrastructure and equipment for electronic money in Europe. He took a PhD
in computer science at Berkeley, taught at NYU Graduate School of Business,
and founded the International Association for Cryptological Research.
*Manuel De Landa
a New York-based artist, is also the author of 'War In The Age Of
Intelligent Machines'. From a vantage point at the intersection of chaos
theory and post-structuralism, De Landa described how military technology
has altered the relationship between humans, their machines, and
information. In his new book Phylum: A Thousand Years Of Non-Linear
History, De Landa considers the cottage-industrialisation of the world, and
the global spread of a 'population of firms' .
*Thomas Dolby
is a pop-star-hacker-programmer who saw in immersive virtual reality a new
medium for musical expression. He created the audio studio Headspace that
allows the user to wander round a classic string quartet as it plays.
Currently working with Joy Mountford's group at Interval Research
Corporation in California, Dolby is also developing an interactive version
of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation which will be released on CDRom.
*Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
a research and design partnership based in London, explore the
inter-relationships between industrial design, architecture and electronic
media. Their recent work, which has focussed on what they call the 'poetics
of telecommunications', includes the Fields & Thresholds project for the
Netherlands Design Institute, an investigation into communicative and
design implications of a 'virtual institute'.
*Lynn Hershman
is a Senior Professor at the University of California where she initiated
the IDEA laboratory devoted to electronic arts. Among her award- winning
videotapes and interactive installations are The Electronic Diary and
Virtual Love, the latter a long narrative about breaking through the screen
that separates us from our media-derived fantasies. Hershman is currently
completing a sequel, The Twisted Chord, charting the telephone from Bell
through to the Internet.
*Peter Lamborn Wilson
was described by Erik Davis in the Village Voice this year as an
'underground anarcho-Sufi scholar (whose) work explores the historical and
mystical dimensions of Sufism and Islamic heresy, as in his latest book
Sacred Drift. His surprisingly virulent concept/buzzword 'temporary
autonomous zones' spread through the computer underground to Time magazine.
His lectures argue for the ultimate unity of imagination and intellectual
investigation'.
*Patti Maes
who received her PhD in computer science at the University of Brussels,
researches artificial life and artificial intelligence, and recently
produced 'Alive', an interactive installation involving 'virtual pets',
whose future in the home she will explain to the conference.Maes has worked
at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and more recently as an
assistant professor at MediaLab, since 1990. Her research focusses on the
modelling of all kinds of artificial intelligence 'agents'.
*William Mitchell's
new book 'City of Bits': Space, Place and Infobahn, which addresses central
concerns of the Home theme,will be published in 1995. Mitchell, who is
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the
School of Architecture, at MIT, conducts research in design theory,
computer applications in architecture and urban design. His other books
include The Reconfigured Eye which deals with the social and cultural
impact of digitally altererd photographs .
*Mitch Ratcliffe
as editor-in-chief of the influential industry newsletter Digital Media, is
well-placed to distinguish between hype and reality, and to explain which
technologies will actually work, and when, on the infobahnen. He is the
co-author (with Andrew Gore) of Powerbook: The Digital Nomad's Guide and is
now completing a book on the World Wide Web which analyses the economic,
social and political implications of software agent technology.
*Jeffrey Shaw
is director of the media institute at Karlsruhe Media Centre in Germany.
Shaw studied architecture in Australia, and art in Milan and London, before
working on interactive and virtual space projects from a base in The
Netherlands, where he also taught at the Rietveld Academie. He has shown
such award-winning projects as TheLegible City, The Narrative Landscape,
and The Virtual Museum at festivals and workshops throughout Europe, the
USA and Japan.
*Marco Susani
is a teacher and researcher at Domus Academy, the research centre and
postgraduate design school in Milan. An expert on the design of services,
Susani explores the relationship between dematerialisation - for example,
of communications - and scenarios for a sustainable economy in which
radically less matter and energy are consumed. His recent work focusses on
conviviality - the behavioural threshold that offers one route for
technology to enter the home.
*Philip Tabor's
doctoral thesis at Cambridge University concerned the limits of 'automated'
architectural design. He co-founded the Centre for Land Use and Built Form
Studies (now the Martin Centre), and the computer aided design consultancy,
Applied Research of Cambridge, which is now part of McDonnell Douglas. For
ten years a partner in Edward Cullinan Architects, specialising in housing,
Philip Tabor was until recently Director of the Bartlett School of
Architecture in London.
*Shin-Ichi Takemura
teaches anthropology, international affairs and cultural design, including
ethnic arts, at Touhoku University of Art and Design. His trans-cultural
analysis of communication processes , media structures and design issues
includes a particular emphasis on an 'ecology of body and mind'. Takemura
is convenor of the Asian Cultural Design Forum and Human Ecology Round
Table. His team is also involved in planning such public facilities as the
proposed Eco-Aesthetic Museum.
*Pauline Terreehorst
in her recently completed book Het Boerderijmodel - 'The Farm Mould' -
argues that the new communication technologies may help transform the home
into a 'farm' again. Terreehorst also speculates that the re-location of
home as a focal point of the electronic superhighway will and foster
positive changes in relationships between men and women. Home played such a
positive role before industrialisation forced people to separate home from
work.
*FURHTER SPEAKERS and presentations will be scheduled continuously between
now and the conference itself:
* SPEAKER UPDATE: Confirmed speakers at publishing date are Hiroshii Ishi,
and Stephen Perrella ('Architecture at the End of Metaphysics' studio)
*Conference Programme
Friday 4 November
08:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
19:00 Reception
Saturday 5 November
08:30-10:00 Breakfast Round Tables
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
19:00 Reception
Sunday 6 November
08:30-10:00 Breakfast Round Tables
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
*Breakfast Round Tables
On both 5 and 6 November, about 25 different 'breakfast round tables' will
be held between 08:30-10:00. Each table will consider a different topic or
presentation - some programmed in advance, others decided on the day. Many
but not all the discussions will be led by a speaker or a moderator. An
extra charge of Dfl 25 per breakfast is payable for participation. Register
now to participate. If that day is fully booked by the time of your
registration, we will book the other day and notify you with your
confirmation.
*Registration and hotel service
For more INFORMATION about REGISTRATION, plus details of HOTEL service:
Sonja van Piggelen
Tel: +31 20 61 70 390
Fax: +31 20 61 74 679
e-mail: modam@xxxxxxxxx
REGISTRATION FEES (in Dutch Guilders, or 'Dfl') exclude accomodation but
include attendance at all conference sessions apart from the breakfast round
tables. The fees also include evening receptions, morning and afternoon tea
and coffee, and conference documentation. The conference sells out, and places
are limited, so please do not come without a reservation. Applications are
processed in order received.
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From: willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Willem Velthoven)
Subject: Doors of Perception 2: '@HOME' Conference
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 16:51:31 +0100
Doors of Perception 2: '@HOME' Conference
4+5+6 November 1994
RAI Congress Center Amsterdam
the Netherlands
*Doors of Perception* is an important meeting point for all those
interested in the design challenge of interactivity. The first conference,
in November 1993, was attended at relatively short notice by nearly 700
people from 20 countries.
*Aim of the conference
The 1994 conference, which is organised by the Netherlands Design Institute
with Mediamatic Magazine, will further develop discussion about culture,
context and innovation. The subject's importance was well put by Terry
Winograd: 'major leaps only happen when someone has a new insight into the
larger picture, and can escape from the old context'. That is the aim of
*Doors 2*.
Speakers will focus on a particular context, 'home' - as market, as
metaphor, and as myth. Industry has great expectations for home as a site
for new products, as an outlet for entertainment and information services,
and as a place of work. But when a new technology enters a culture, the
culture changes. What does that mean for 'home'?
*Subjects
From the multiple perspectives of marketing, technology, design,
philosophy, anthropology, and psychology, speakers will consider the
cultural impact of technology on work and play, home and school, learning
and entertainment. They will compare the qualities of telematic space and
domestic space. They will
talk about real nomads and telematic nomads. They will analyse changes to our
sense of place, both public and private. They will look at the psychology
of belonging - to a family, group, or community. They will explore the
architecture of information, and the creation of shared meaning, in
virtual communities.
*Debate
The point of this debate is that uncritical assumptions, and a crude use of
'real world' metaphors about the home, can actually stifle innovation. Vast
resources are being devoted to digital versions of existing human
activities - teleshopping, video-on-demand, telecommuting; but attempts to
create entirely new uses for the technologies have been unambitious, to say
the least. Doors of Perception gives equal emphasis to thinking and doing.
It is not a trade show - neither is it exclusive: chief executives and
young creatives are equally 'at home' at this unique event.
*The organisers
Vormgevingsinstituut / Netherlands Design Institute
Tel: +31 (0)20 5516500 Fax: +31 (0)20 620 1031
e-mail: doors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mediamatic Magazine
Tel: +31 (0)20 6266262 Fax: +31 (0)20 6263793
To receive *Doors 2 electronic newsletter* send
e-mail to: listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The message should mention: 'subscribe home'
*The Speakers
*Christopher Alexander
author of 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction': After a
ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center
for Environmental Strucure published a major statement in the form of three
books which will, in their words, 'lay the basis for an entirely new
approach to architecture, building and planning, which will replace
existing ideas and practices entirely'. At the core of his books is the
idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets,
and com
munities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of
the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that
most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but
by the people.
Also author of: 'The Timeless Way of Building': The theory of architecture
implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt.
More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the
power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even
afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are
afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now,
at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms
an architecture as ancient as human society itself. Christopher Alexander
presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at
its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always
pulled the order of their world from their own being.
*John Perry Barlow
studied comparative religion, has been the lyricist for The Grateful Dead
since 1972, is an insightful writer, and co-founded, with Mitchell Kapor
and Stephen Wozniak,the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF pushes
ethical and political issues of the new media onto the international agenda
- freedom of speech, privacy, intellectual property, and other social
consequences of a network culture.
*Alfred Birnbaum
who was born in China and raised in Japan, is a noted translator in
Japanese (of such authors as Murakami), an artist with the Kyoto-based
performance group 'Dumb Type', and a highly original researcher of diverse
popular phenomena in contemporary Japan, which he compares to deeply rooted
Asian cultural traditions.
*'Breaking stories, eye candy and mental muesli'
as one journalist described 'Doors 1', will again feature in this year's
conference. How is interactivity to be designed? What methodologies and
management skills are needed for what is, by definition, a
multi-diciplinary activity? A keen reader of conference blurbs will also
appreciate that this paragraph has been added at artwork stage to replace
the cv of a key speaker, whose name begins with B, who has de-confirmed.
But we'll replace him.
*Amy Bruckman
a doctoral candidate at MIT, founded MediaMOO, a text-based virtual reality
environment designed as a professional on-line community for media
researchers.For her dissertation, Bruckman is creating a MUD for children
called MOOSE Crossing, designed to be an authentic context in which kids
can learn reading, writing and programming. Bruckman will explain what MUDs
and MOOs actually are in her presentation.
*Florian Brody
who studied linguistics and computer science in Vienna, investigates the
relationship between computers, memory and identity. He worked in the
Austrian National Library on automation management, and was technical
director of the 'expanded books' project at Voyager Publishing in
California, before founding New Media Consulting. He teaches at Vienna
University, and he is president of the Austrian Society for Virtuality,
Telepresence and Cyberspace.
*David Chaum
is managing director of DigiCash, an Amsterdam-based company that is a
world pioneer in electronic cash payment systems. Dr Chaum is also chairman
of CAFE, the European Union research consortium investigating the technical
infrastructure and equipment for electronic money in Europe. He took a PhD
in computer science at Berkeley, taught at NYU Graduate School of Business,
and founded the International Association for Cryptological Research.
*Manuel De Landa
a New York-based artist, is also the author of 'War In The Age Of
Intelligent Machines'. From a vantage point at the intersection of chaos
theory and post-structuralism, De Landa described how military technology
has altered the relationship between humans, their machines, and
information. In his new book Phylum: A Thousand Years Of Non-Linear
History, De Landa considers the cottage-industrialisation of the world, and
the global spread of a 'population of firms' .
*Thomas Dolby
is a pop-star-hacker-programmer who saw in immersive virtual reality a new
medium for musical expression. He created the audio studio Headspace that
allows the user to wander round a classic string quartet as it plays.
Currently working with Joy Mountford's group at Interval Research
Corporation in California, Dolby is also developing an interactive version
of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation which will be released on CDRom.
*Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
a research and design partnership based in London, explore the
inter-relationships between industrial design, architecture and electronic
media. Their recent work, which has focussed on what they call the 'poetics
of telecommunications', includes the Fields & Thresholds project for the
Netherlands Design Institute, an investigation into communicative and
design implications of a 'virtual institute'.
*Lynn Hershman
is a Senior Professor at the University of California where she initiated
the IDEA laboratory devoted to electronic arts. Among her award- winning
videotapes and interactive installations are The Electronic Diary and
Virtual Love, the latter a long narrative about breaking through the screen
that separates us from our media-derived fantasies. Hershman is currently
completing a sequel, The Twisted Chord, charting the telephone from Bell
through to the Internet.
*Peter Lamborn Wilson
was described by Erik Davis in the Village Voice this year as an
'underground anarcho-Sufi scholar (whose) work explores the historical and
mystical dimensions of Sufism and Islamic heresy, as in his latest book
Sacred Drift. His surprisingly virulent concept/buzzword 'temporary
autonomous zones' spread through the computer underground to Time magazine.
His lectures argue for the ultimate unity of imagination and intellectual
investigation'.
*Patti Maes
who received her PhD in computer science at the University of Brussels,
researches artificial life and artificial intelligence, and recently
produced 'Alive', an interactive installation involving 'virtual pets',
whose future in the home she will explain to the conference.Maes has worked
at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and more recently as an
assistant professor at MediaLab, since 1990. Her research focusses on the
modelling of all kinds of artificial intelligence 'agents'.
*William Mitchell's
new book 'City of Bits': Space, Place and Infobahn, which addresses central
concerns of the Home theme,will be published in 1995. Mitchell, who is
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the
School of Architecture, at MIT, conducts research in design theory,
computer applications in architecture and urban design. His other books
include The Reconfigured Eye which deals with the social and cultural
impact of digitally altererd photographs .
*Mitch Ratcliffe
as editor-in-chief of the influential industry newsletter Digital Media, is
well-placed to distinguish between hype and reality, and to explain which
technologies will actually work, and when, on the infobahnen. He is the
co-author (with Andrew Gore) of Powerbook: The Digital Nomad's Guide and is
now completing a book on the World Wide Web which analyses the economic,
social and political implications of software agent technology.
*Jeffrey Shaw
is director of the media institute at Karlsruhe Media Centre in Germany.
Shaw studied architecture in Australia, and art in Milan and London, before
working on interactive and virtual space projects from a base in The
Netherlands, where he also taught at the Rietveld Academie. He has shown
such award-winning projects as TheLegible City, The Narrative Landscape,
and The Virtual Museum at festivals and workshops throughout Europe, the
USA and Japan.
*Marco Susani
is a teacher and researcher at Domus Academy, the research centre and
postgraduate design school in Milan. An expert on the design of services,
Susani explores the relationship between dematerialisation - for example,
of communications - and scenarios for a sustainable economy in which
radically less matter and energy are consumed. His recent work focusses on
conviviality - the behavioural threshold that offers one route for
technology to enter the home.
*Philip Tabor's
doctoral thesis at Cambridge University concerned the limits of 'automated'
architectural design. He co-founded the Centre for Land Use and Built Form
Studies (now the Martin Centre), and the computer aided design consultancy,
Applied Research of Cambridge, which is now part of McDonnell Douglas. For
ten years a partner in Edward Cullinan Architects, specialising in housing,
Philip Tabor was until recently Director of the Bartlett School of
Architecture in London.
*Shin-Ichi Takemura
teaches anthropology, international affairs and cultural design, including
ethnic arts, at Touhoku University of Art and Design. His trans-cultural
analysis of communication processes , media structures and design issues
includes a particular emphasis on an 'ecology of body and mind'. Takemura
is convenor of the Asian Cultural Design Forum and Human Ecology Round
Table. His team is also involved in planning such public facilities as the
proposed Eco-Aesthetic Museum.
*Pauline Terreehorst
in her recently completed book Het Boerderijmodel - 'The Farm Mould' -
argues that the new communication technologies may help transform the home
into a 'farm' again. Terreehorst also speculates that the re-location of
home as a focal point of the electronic superhighway will and foster
positive changes in relationships between men and women. Home played such a
positive role before industrialisation forced people to separate home from
work.
*FURHTER SPEAKERS and presentations will be scheduled continuously between
now and the conference itself:
* SPEAKER UPDATE: Confirmed speakers at publishing date are Hiroshii Ishi,
and Stephen Perrella ('Architecture at the End of Metaphysics' studio)
*Conference Programme
Friday 4 November
08:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
19:00 Reception
Saturday 5 November
08:30-10:00 Breakfast Round Tables
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
19:00 Reception
Sunday 6 November
08:30-10:00 Breakfast Round Tables
10:00-12:30 Plenary
15:00-18:00 Plenary
*Breakfast Round Tables
On both 5 and 6 November, about 25 different 'breakfast round tables' will
be held between 08:30-10:00. Each table will consider a different topic or
presentation - some programmed in advance, others decided on the day. Many
but not all the discussions will be led by a speaker or a moderator. An
extra charge of Dfl 25 per breakfast is payable for participation. Register
now to participate. If that day is fully booked by the time of your
registration, we will book the other day and notify you with your
confirmation.
*Registration and hotel service
For more INFORMATION about REGISTRATION, plus details of HOTEL service:
Sonja van Piggelen
Tel: +31 20 61 70 390
Fax: +31 20 61 74 679
e-mail: modam@xxxxxxxxx
REGISTRATION FEES (in Dutch Guilders, or 'Dfl') exclude accomodation but
include attendance at all conference sessions apart from the breakfast round
tables. The fees also include evening receptions, morning and afternoon tea
and coffee, and conference documentation. The conference sells out, and places
are limited, so please do not come without a reservation. Applications are
processed in order received.
*REGISTRATION FORM*
Name:
Company:
Function/Profession:
Street address:
City:
ZIP Code:
Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Student card number:
School/Institution:
Date:
PLEASE MENTION WHICH NUMBER (=OPTION) YOU CHOOSE: # ...
Standard rate to 1 October
1) Excluding breakfast round tables: Dfl 575,-
2) Including one breakfast round table Saturday: Dfl 600,-
3) Including one breakfast round table Sunday: Dfl 600,-
Standard rate after 1 October
4) Excluding breakfast round table: Dfl 625,-
5) Including breakfast round table Saturday: Dfl 650,-
6) Including breakfast round table Sunday: Dfl 650,-
Student rate to 1 October
7) Excluding breakfast round table: Dfl 225,-
8) Including breakfast round table Saturday: Dfl 250,-
9) Including breakfast round table Sunday: Dfl 250,-
Student after 1 October
10) Excluding breakfast round tables: Dfl 275,-
11) Including breakfast round table Saturday: Dfl 300,-
12) Including breakfast round table Sunday: Dfl 300,-
*I HEREBY REGISTER and pay via: #...
a) Diners Club
b) Visa
c) Eurocard/Mastercard
d) American Express
e) JCB
Credit card No:
Expire Date:
Card holder's name:
Card holder's address:
Zipcode:
f) (NL only): ABN Amro 43 36 80 407 o.v.v. DoP,
of per giro nr. 2391 van de ABN Amro t.g.v. 43 36 80 407 o.v.v. DoP
* PLEASE SEND an invoice (you will receive confirmation and your ticket,
after payment of the full amount)
CANCELLATION: refund in full only if you cancel in writing by 21 October
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Postbus 17490
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