thinking about the future possibilities of cooperation with the non-academic partners (DR and TDC) and academic partners (University of Copenhagen, Danish School of Design Cph), which have for the last two years been involved in the Mobile Content Laboratory (aka MIL - Det Mobile Indholdslaboratorium). As ITU representative, I have helped recruit students from the university to partipate in so far three (no 4 coming up) mobile concept development periods, during which students in cross-institutional groups in collaboration with the non-academic partner representatives have worked hard to come up with mobile concepts which fell into the heading of the themes each period has had. The senior researchers from each academic institution should also have done some research of the field, an obligation I have had a hard time fullfilling, since I have spent a lot of time organising the project, and organising and supervising students. Nevertheless, I have learnt a lot from sitting at the same table as people with a completely different perspective on mobile media than I.

With as little experience as I have, it is difficult to come up with creative solutions to co-operation projects in which all partners and all people get what they want out of it. But I hope the co-operation that started with MIL, continues in some form. It is a continous useful lesson to be reminded that there is sometimes a long way between theory (thoughts) and practice (development under pressure), but when ends meet, sparks fly.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 21:42