Posts By: Silvio Lorusso

Gerlof Donga: Digitaal studeren 2011

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

A short synopsis in English of Gerlof Donga’s presentation ‘Digital studying 2011’. Gerlof Donga, research coordinator usability for Amsterdam E-boekenstad, started the workshop E-readers in Dutch Education with a presentation about digital studying. He explained that research should be done to investigate how e-readers can be used in education. Gerlof started the presentation with explaining [...]

Joost Kircz: Belangrijkste inzichten van griffieproject E-boekenstad

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

A short synopsis in English of Joost Kircz’s presentation ‘Most important results of user research Griffieproject E-boekenstad’. Joost Kircz, project manager of E-boekenstad, explains in the second presentation of the workshop E-readers in Dutch Education about the research results of the griffieproject. The aim of this research was to find out what the consequences are [...]

Miha Kovac: E-Books vs. P-Books

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

Miha Kovac is the currently publisher at Mladinska knjiga and full professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Miha Kovac @ The Unbound Book Conference photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg In Session I of the Unbound Book Conference entitled “What is a Book?“, [...]

Simon Worthington on Progressive Publishing Systems

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

Mute is an independent editorial and technology initiative, a key space for critical independent cultural writing in the UK, a magazine, a book publisher, and a collective since 1994. Over the years Mute has produced multiuser CMS, live coding AV software, community wireless networks, and OS software packages alongside innovative online and material print projects, [...]

Jacob Molenaar: Vervolgonderzoeken van Amsterdam E-boekenstad

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

A short synopsis in English of Jacob Molenaar’s presentation ‘Future research of Amsterdam E-boekenstad’ Jacob Molenaar, consultant and project manager in the field of e-learning, ended the workshop E-readers in Dutch Education with a presentation on research which E-boekenstad is planning to do in the future. He started his presentation with the results of previous research. [...]

Gary Hall: Liquid, Living Books

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Gary Hall is a cultural and media theorist who has written many books on these subjects. He is a professor of Media and Performing Arts at Conventry University (UK) and co-founder of Open Humanities Press. Gary Hall @ The Unbound Book Conference photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg Gary Hall started his talk which was [...]

Frank van Amerongen on Reinventing Educational publishing

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Frank van Amerongen (1950) is managing director and publisher at ThiemeMeulenhoff, one of the mayor educational publishing houses in the Netherlands. In his early professional years he was a teacher in primary education and also an author for textbooks and translator of non-fiction reference books for young children. In the early eighties he started his [...]

Roosje Klap on Ebook and empathic design

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Roosje Klap works and lives in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rietveld Academy. She works as a designer in her studio and as a teacher graphic design, currently at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands. She is also a member selection committee Fonds BKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, [...]

John Haltiwanger: Generative Typesetting

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

John Haltiwanger is a New Media MA graduate and an autodidactic programmer with a strong interest in typesetting and open source software. Haltiwanger collaborates with the Open Source Publishing platform and Universiteit van Amsterdam. The main focus of his presentation is generative typesetting, with his MA thesis used as an illustration. Haltiwanger argues for liberating [...]

Femke Snelting: F/LOSS tools in graphic design

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Femke Snelting is an artist and designer who works with the interdisciplinary and international graphic design collective Open Source Publishing based in Brussels. During her presentation Snelting addresses the possibilities and realities of design, illustration and typography using a range of F/LOSS (free/libre/open-source software) tools. While modifying and expanding their toolbox, OSP uses solely open [...]