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14. 05. 2012
Lisbon, Start Up City

Lisbon, the Start Up City

There’s lots of initiatives related do entrepeneurism in Portugal supported by Billy the Group - the community of companies where we’re in. Such as the 1st Lisbon Entrepreneurship Week, highlighted on the local media last week,...

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13. 05. 2012
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On mechanical ducks and contemporary user-experience: breaking the boundaries with Genevieve Bell

In a riveting communication at Dublin Interaction 2012, suggestively entitled ‘Rage against the Machines’, Genevieve Bell, Anthropologist and Director of Interactions at Intel, carries on fiercely pushing the area of anthropology and user-experience forward. Starting...

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11. 05. 2012
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For the weekend: Being Elmo

Acclaimed at the Sundance Festival, as one of the best feel good movies, Being Elmo looks like a great weekend watch. About the famous Elmo figure and his maker, the movie displays how...

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09. 05. 2012
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Why we embarked on a TV series co-production. Airing soon!

A day away from the series airing, and after questions about why we came to get involved with a television series, we would like to clarify these curiosities. Since 2009 Couture has worked...

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08. 05. 2012
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O Tempo e o Modo / The Way in Time: a Couture TV series co-production

We are proud to announce the première, next May 10th, on RTP2:     The Way in Time invites 11 personalities from different social and geographical locations for 30 minute conversations about the state...

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03. 05. 2012
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Future’s beauty: build now!

Looking at the people featured at Phillip Toledano’s book «A New Kind of Beauty», one understands the power of transforming individual identity through plastic surgery – combining technology and freedom – and the...

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13. 04. 2012
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Objects in museums, products in shops: people, memories and meaning

My profession takes place amongst museum objects: working on inventory, production of content and catalogues for exhibitions and communicating with the public. And in each of these tasks, Andy Warhol’s well known expression...

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10. 04. 2012
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Google Consumer Surveys: a new game change from the information giant?

Google launched yet another of its products, and this time its no April Fools trick. “What is unequivocal is that there is now a new major (to put it lightly) competitor within the...

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30. 03. 2012
But.. what to do in front of a replicant face?

Face recognition and restricting ‘consumers’ (but what about Blade Runner?)

A few weeks ago, an NGO picked-up a face-recognition system based on technology to implant their advertising campaign on the streets of London. Their objective in using this technology was to restrict target...

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27. 03. 2012
Being Human 2012

Being Human 2012

“We live at the dawn of a scientific revolution. Every day brings new findings from a broad range of disciplines – behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social anthropology, philosophy – that promise...

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