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An Amsterdam PICNIC @ WCIT 2010

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:12:53 +0000

On Tuesday, 25 May international IT professionals and Amsterdam’s top creative talent got together for An Amsterdam PICNIC @ WCIT 2010. We would like to thank all of our partners and attendees for making this an enjoyable and successful evening! It was also a nice opportunity to test the new constellation of the PICNIC team before the main event in September. Was great!

During the evening, the attendees of WCIT got the opportunity to experience some of Amsterdam’s top creative talent in action at An Amsterdam PICNIC @ WCIT 2010.

WCIT stands for World Congress on Information Technology. It is one of the world’s most prestigious IT events, and Amsterdam is hosting this year’s edition at the RAI from 25 to 27 May 2010.

Together with the City of Amsterdam, PICNIC hosted a special networking evening for WCIT guests held at the Zuiveringhal West in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam on Tuesday, 25 May 2010. This event was a unique opportunity to showcase Amsterdam’s creativity to visiting business professionals. The evening featured interactive installations from local artists and the venue was transformed in the PICNIC style, complete with real grass, picnic tables and hanging tapestries from Thonik.

The evening opened with a welcome from Mr. Lodewijk Asscher, acting mayor of Amsterdam and deputy mayor Ms. Carolien Gehrels, Ms. Gehrels nicely summarized the connection between WCIT and the City of Amsterdam, saying:

“…The key to improving the world can be found in desire for innovation. And that’s why we were so keen to bring the 17th WCIT to Amsterdam. This event fits together with the Amsterdam tradition, with the creativity of our inhabitants, the initiatives launched by our leaders with our extensive history…”

This evening event was a glimpse of what people can expect at the next edition of PICNIC, taking place at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam from 22 to 24 September 2010.

Umbrella Cloud

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:06:51 +0000

Had an idea to make a gigantic chandelier from a massive amount of umbrella’s for An Amsterdam PICNIC @ WCIT 2010 and also for the September event. Senz was so kind to make this come happen and delivered 200 white Senz mini’s. The result was just beautiful! Thanks Jochem for linking!

Strangers Are Friends You Haven’t Met Yet

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:17:33 +0000

For PICNIC in September we’re looking into ways to make people meet each other. And to make meeting less scary. That, mixed with chatroulette became an idea to have a load of old phones hanging from the sky at two places, connected over a large distance, so you can talk to any stranger. What might lead to a meeting and maybe a drink or something more. At An Amsterdam PICNIC @ WCIT 2010 everything was there, thanks to some PICNIC team members and the crew building everything — and it just worked! Amazing! It instantly makes you feel you’re part of a LOST episode.

In it’s essence, the installation really represents what PICNIC is: PICNIC brings together a wide variety of people with different motivations and backgrounds to find creative new solutions for business and society. Chance encounters, surprise and serendipity are crucial to cultivating these new and unexpected ideas. So, this installation is a physical manifestation of PICNIC’s goals – to create new ideas and partnerships out of unexpected encounters. Grab a phone and start a conversation with a stranger. You don’t know who it will be and what it might lead to – but that’s part of the fun.

A special thanks to Houweling Telecom Museum for helping make this installation possible.

Test-shooting for PICNIC10 communication

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:50:50 +0000

Today we spend test-shooting for the PICNIC10 communication. With Maurice Mikkers as the photographer and the PICNIC team as guinea pigs. And as usual it turned out great. More follows soon!

Workshopping with LEMZ for a great PICNIC 2010

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:39:00 +0000

We had a great session with the LEMZ team to create the perfect PICNIC 2010. They prepared really really well, brought lots and lots of inspiration and fresh insights to the table, pure delight. Thanks guys!

The creative direction for PICNIC 2010

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:58:33 +0000

PICNIC 2010 is shaping creatively. One thing is certain: it will be a different PICNIC for several reasons. New people working on it, a new approach and of course the 5th anniversary. We set ourselves the goal that it should be the best experience ever — of course. Making it the ultimate place to be inspired, meet people, ideas and experience stuff that will simply blow you away; but will also allow you to exchange your ideas, knowledge, joy, excitement and business cards what will lead to now unimaginable new projects, relations, services or what ever you feel like. We captured the essence in a 4.5 meter long document. It’s an overview of all the plans, ideas and inspiration for the theme, communication, location, formats and more. This is version 0.1. Many versions will follow for sure. And the old ones, we’ll use as table cloths of blankets to have a picnic on when the weather is good. It’s great fun to work together with Alrik again. It will be great.

Working on the design track for Picnic 2010

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:19:10 +0000

Had a great and highly energetic kick-off meeting today of a part of the programming of PICNIC 2010 with Kitty (Program Director, PICNIC), Gentry Underwood (Ideo), Bas van Abel (Waag Society) and Roel Klaassen (Premsela). To be continued.

Picnic 2010 work in progess

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:51:23 +0000

A small peek at the work in progress for PICNIC10, developing the theme. Don’t forget to share your ideas!

Once upon a Picnic

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:54:42 +0000

Today was another day at the PICNIC office. I’ve set my weekly fixed focussed PICNIC day on Thursday, starting next week since past weeks Thursdays were rather impossible due to other projects. A lot is happening, there will be a lot of new things. What is also nice, is working with a nice group of enthusiastic passionate people as a team to build on a great event. By now, I almost have sponged in the past of PICNIC and met a lot of the partners who help making PICNIC happen.

I’m looking forward to see things come alive creatively. I’ve asked Alrik Koudenburg to join to help with the spatial experience. Mark Rooker, also responsible for last years’ campaign and design will also do that for this fifth edition. Maarten and Derk from Stripped event managers will make sure all dreams we have now will be realized in September.

At the Once upon a Picnic page, a lot of ideas have been shared already. Thank you for that. And thanks Thomas for building it. More soon!

Contribute to Picnic festival 2010!

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:20:40 +0000

Hurray! It’s live! To share what you want to share for Picnic Festival 2010, you can use this page. Remember: it’s always more fun when you bring your own stuff to a picnic!