
Friday Dec-11: Signage Technology
PETER BARKER
The Guide Dogs for the Blind
New Technologies for Visual ImpaIred People / UK
LISA EHRENSTRASSER and VERONIKA EGGER
inclusive Design / is-design AT
Evoking the senses: A workshop on the assessment of materials
KEIICHI KOYAMA
i-Design Tokyo / JP
Report on applied technologies in Japan
ALEXANDRA MILLONIG
Dep. of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology / AT
Ubiquitous Navigation Support Let the Environment Guide You
PER MOLLERUP
Swinburne University / AUS
Wayfinding, Wayshowing, Waylosing
NICOLAS NAVEAU
Ars Electronica Futurelab / AT
SOURCE.CODE - Media Art as Guidance System
CONSTANTIN PEYFUSS
Unlike / DE
City Guides for a mobile generation
STEFAN RAPP
LumEnActive / DE
Application of LumEnActive for signage and route guidance

Thursday, Dec-10: Signage & Architecture
ERWIN K. BAUER
Bauer - konzept & gestaltung / AT
GILLES BAUDET
Attoma Design / FR
Wayfinding in complex underground transit places
LISA FONTAINE
Iowa State University / USA
KATHRYN McCORMICK
California Polytechnic State University / USA
OSCAR FERNANDEZ
University of Cincinnati / USA
Universal Symbol Systems for Cross-Cultural Audiences: New Curricular Methods
DIANA FRANK
Office for concept and design / DE
Orientation by context, not by text
GEORG GARTNER
Dept of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology
Impact of LBS and contemporary mapping on wayfinding
FLORIAN KOECK
CHRISTOPH RASTBICHLER
D-Licious / AT
The importance of institutional presence in public space
SUE MANLEY
Placemarque Ltd. / UK
Celebrating the place – communicating local identity and character through wayfinding
TIMOTHY NISSEN / CH
University of Arts Bern
A Master Course of Advanced Studies in Signaletics
ROB WALLER
Department of Typography University of Reading / UK
Wayfinding and the Reading MA in Information Design

Wednesday, Dec-9: Riverside: Waterways and Automotive Signage
MARTIN DREXLER
Artibus / AT
The Avalanche of Signs and Symbols
OTTO SCHWETZ
PIANC Austria / AT
1) Navigation on Waterways
2) Vienna Car Park Routing System
GEORG SCHICKER
Schicker GmbH / AT
Ship-Rescue-Practice Hainburg 2008
GERHARD SKOFF
Danube Tourist Commission / AT
Ship-Rescue-Practice Hainburg 2008
NICOLAI STICKEL
Star Cooperation GmbH / DE
Labeling inside a car: Challenges, Solutions and Trends
DIETER STOCKINGER
General Motors Austria / AT
Security and safety in Production Environment
DANIELl THIRIET (tbc)
Sea Chefs Cruise Management GmbH A-rosa / CH
Signage on Ships
REINHARD VORDERWINKLER
BMVIT - Schifffahrt - Technik und Nautik / AT
EU-Regulations

Saturday, Dec-5: Respecting the blind and partially sighted
PETER BARKER
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association / UK
How to design Wayfinding and Signage System for visually impaired people
SIOBONNE BREWSTER
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) / UK
Innovations in accessible wayfinding - making a cohesive journey
CHRISTIANE HAUCK
Relief Organization for Austria’s Blind and Visually Impaired / AT
Design of a high contrasting environment - a perceptive chance for visually impaired ?
ROLAND KRPATA
Wiener Linien / AT
Presentation and onsite investigation on barrierefree design
DANIELE MARANO
Relief Organization for Austria’s Blind and Visually Impaired / AT
Self-awareness experience of different visual disabilities through simulation glasses
Discussion and exchange of experiences with visually disabled
REGINA ROLAND
Visual Dialogue San Francisco / USA - AT
World Café
IRENE VOGEL
Relief Organization for Austria’s Blind and Visually Impaired / AT
MARTA WIECKOWSKA
Academy of Fine Art, Institute of Visual Research and Interaction / PL
Understanding space as perceived by blind people

Friday, Dec-4: City Identity & Wayfinding
ZEYNEP ARAN
Hacettepe University / TR
HALIME FISENK
Baskent University / TR
Environmental sign systems as a visual language matter in Turkey
NIC BANKS
Atelier Pacific Limited / Hong Kong
Signing public transport systems
MATT BUTTERS
Pascall and Watson / UK
Intuative wayfinding at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
CLIVE RICHARDS
formerly of Coventry University / UK President of IIID
A picture isn’t always worth 1000 words - Warning labels for tractors
STEFAN EGGER
IIID / AT
“Tern”: A new traffic typeface for the Trans European Road Network (TERN)
TIM FENDLEY
Applied Information Group / UK
A principled approach to designing urban wayfinding
DAVID GIBSON
Two Twelve Associates, Inc. / USA
Finding the hidden Logic
BARRY GRAY
Sign Design Society/ UK
An up date from Geneva. Latest developments in the standardisation of graphical symbols and signs
RALF HERRMANN
Designer / DE
Wayfinding Typefaces
TONY HOWARD
Transport Design Consultancy / UK
New concepts of wayfinding in public environments / Metro Dubai
HELMUT NESS
Fuenfwerken Design AG / DE
New concepts of wayfinding in public environments. Messe Frankfurt
JIM NORTHOVER
Lloyd Northover / UK
Global Cities, Local Places: the challenge of identity and information in urban environments
GÖKHAN NUMANOGLU
Designer / TR
Pictogram as an International Pictorial Sign
TOMMIE NYSTRÖM
Stuttgart Media University / DE
Experiences from teaching Wayshowing at Stuttgart Media University
KHANNA RAMAN
Design For Use / India
Reading the city of Delhi: wayfinding strategies for international tourism
CLIFF SELBERT
Selbert Perkins Design / USA
Finding Your Way While Enhancing Your Brand
ERIK SPIEKERMANN
EdenSpiekermann / DE
Current Wayfinding Projects

Thursday, Dec-3: Opening of the Exhibition
MIKE WOLFF
Chairman of the Sign Design Society (SDS)
PETER SIMLINGER
Director of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID)
MARTIN FOESSLEITNER
Director of the IIIDspace
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