Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space :: June 9-10, 2011 :: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

Technology is transforming privacy and reshaping what it means to be in public. Our interactions — personal, professional, financial, etc. — increasingly take place online, where they are archived, searchable, and easily replicated. Discussions of privacy often focus solely on the question of how to protect privacy. But a thriving public sphere, whether physical or virtual, is also essential to society.

Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, will bring together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians, artists and legal scholars to discuss how design influences privacy and public space, how it shapes and is shaped by human behavior and experience, and how it can cultivate norms such as tolerance and diversity.

Confirmed participants include Assaf Biderman (MIT SENSEable City Laboratory), danah boyd (Microsoft Research), Herbert Burkert (University of St. Gallen), Gerhard Buurman (Zurich University of the Arts), Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) Judith Donath (Berkman Center), Paul Dourish (UC Irvine), Urs Gasser (Berkman Center) Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale LLC), Jef Huang (Berkman Center), Betsy Masiello (Google), Nicholas Negroponte (MIT), Charles Nesson (Berkman Center), John Palfrey (Berkman Center), Julia Scher (Academy of Media Arts Cologne), Laurent Stalder (ETHZ), David Weinberger (Berkman Center/Harvard Library Innovation Lab), (Berkman Center), Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center), and many more.

Registration is open. more information on our website.