Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Buildings

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Saturday 10th March 2012

• The Building Blocks for Indoor Navigation

  by Ankit Agarwal, Ants Maran, Chris Broadfoot, Josh Marti and Nick Such

  The prevalence of location-based services has been rising over the past few years, but they have yet to venture into the place where people spend 80% of their lives: inside buildings. Startups and large corporations alike are racing to build the infrastructure to make indoor LBS possible. Hear from a few of the players in indoor mapping and indoor positioning technologies as they discuss the future of indoor navigation.

  • Buildings
  • Location
  • Mapping
  • Services

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Salon J, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage write-up audio clip

Sunday 11th March 2012

• Design. Build. Transform.

  by Emily Pilloton

  Emily Pilloton is a designer and builder, disguised as a high school teacher. In this session, she will tell the story of Studio H, a high school design/build curriculum based in Bertie County, North Carolina, the poorest, most sparsely populated and racially divided county in the state. In one year, her students design and construct a full-scale piece of architecture for their hometown (last year, a 2000-square foot farmers market, along with 3 public chicken coops). This session will make the case for bringing back new, design-infused models of vocational learning as a means to engage students in hand-to-mind creativity, and real-world progress in their own backyards.

  • Architecture
  • Buildings
  • Design
  • Teaching

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom EF, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip sketch note