Masterclass 2017 Agenda

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[highlight]Sunday, April 2, 2017[/highlight]

2:00 Registration desk opens at Block D, Sala Notturno of the service centre (look for signs).  You must have a general pass to the book fair or your Eventbrite ticket to get past the first gate. If you’ve ordered your pass (using the higher 300 Euro fee) you’ll be given your fair pass at the Dust or Magic registration desk.    

General directions from Bologna: http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/visit/get-directions/2499.html

How to find the room in the fair: http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/visit/map-of-exhibition-centre/2413.html

2:45 Doors open

3:00 Welcome and Introductions. Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
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3:05 Mark Schlichting: Making Magic

Mark Schlichting is a pioneer of the children’s digital space. He is  best known as the creator of original “Living Books”  — Brøderbund’s Living Books CD-ROM. In 2000 Mark founded his own design and consulting firm, and he recently finished a book on design called Understanding Kids, Play, and Interactive Design: How to Create Game Children Love. In this talk, Mark will share some of his favorite stories, tricks and techniques.

Curious Hat3:50 Luca Prasso:  Creativity and ingenuity in VR/AR

Virtual and Augmented Reality offer new opportunities for creativity, storytelling, content creation and distribution. We will explore tools, projects and prototypes created at Google in the past couple of years.

Luca Prasso is a creative technologist at Google’s Daydream Labs, a small team dedicated to exploring new interactions and possibilities in VR/AR. Prior to Daydream, Luca has worked on Google’s Spotlight Stories immersive storytelling project for 2 years. In 2012 Luca co founded Curious Hat, an award winning studio dedicated to the development of innovative mobile children apps. For 17 years, Luca has worked as Character Technical Supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks, working on movies such as Antz, Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon.

4:30 2017 BolognaRagazzi Digital Award Winners with Juror Chair Warren Buckleitner, with juror members and winners on hand.

christiaan_coenraadsMINI TALKS (10 minutes each)

5:00 Christiaan Coenraads. How to Make a Terrible Picture Book App. Interactivity in digital picture books is mostly distracting, not engaging, young children. These are the sobering results of research on digital Picture Book Apps by the university of Leiden, the Netherlands. But there is hope. Christiaan Coenraads argues that we should use a different approach to digitizing picture books. In short: lose the gimmicks and focus on the story.  Christiaan is the owner of Het Woeste Woud, a Dutch producer of digitally animated picture books.

Screen Shot 2017-01-27 at 3.27.09 PM5:10 Junko Yokoto Some Dust and Some Magic. Junko is a long-time BCBF attendee and is the Director of the Center for Teaching through Children’s Books. Her research focuses on visual narratives in picture books, digital literature for children, multicultural and international literature, and literacy instruction through quality literature. We’ll ask Junko for her current thoughts on the intersection between VR/AR traditional publishing.

5:20 Demos. Do you have a product you’d like to show? Prepare a short, 3 minute elevator pitch to give to the entire group. We’ll have standard audio and video input, plus a document camera.

5:30 Panel: The Annual International State of the Children’s App with Neal Hoskins of Bologna Digital as the Moderator. Take a deep dive on the current issues facing interactive designers, with leading minds from various parts of the world. This annual panel is highly interactive, with plenty of discussion with the audience that will extend well into the evening. Confirmed so far:

6:30 Break: Back to your hotel.

 Screen Shot 2016-01-29 at 9.22.11 AM8:00 Fixed price communal dinner in the center city of Bologna.

Once again we will meet informally in the evening to dine together and continue the conversation long into the evening, Bologna style.

The cost is about 35 Euros per plate, and will be collected onsite.

All speakers and members of the Masterclass are invited. Bring a tablet with apps to informally share.

TO REGISTER

Seats are sold using Eventbrite for 300 or 250 Euros each (the lower rate is for registered fair attendees who already have a pass).  The higher rate includes one full pass to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which you can pick up at the Dust or Magic registration desk.

There is also a student rate of 60 Euros, for a block of seats. A current graduate or undergraduate student ID must be displayed at the Dust or Magic registration desk to have access to one of these seats.

2017 Speakers

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