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tor’s grant from Fonds BKVB to explore the impact of locative media art projects and urban screens on the experience of the city. At the moment, she is an independent curator and programme manager at Virtueel Platform. She is also writing her PhD at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London: Archeology of the Future, strategies for documenting net art. As well she is involved in Inside Movement Knowledge, an interdisciplinary research project into new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of contemporary dance knowledge. Ava Fatah gen. Schieck is a Registered Architect (Germany) with years of experience in practice. She is primarily interested in exploring the relation between media technologies, architectural space and social engagement in particular within the historic context. Ava is a senior research fellow within the Bartlett’s Space group, UCL, and a senior teaching fellow for the MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation course (leading the module embodied and embedded technologies). Her current research is into the use of location-based and responsive computing within the urban context (www.cityware.org.uk). Ava has lectured and published extensively on urban space and its transformation and acquisition through new media. With a background in design in historic context and virtual environments, she is instrumental in building a network of the key stakeholders addressing critical issues for delivering an integral implementation of the urban screens in the UK. Her most recent project ‘SCREAM’ has addressed various issues related to the implementation of Urban Screens in the UK, the project outcome has contributed positively to the Joint guidance on Large digital screens in public spaces from English Heritage and CABE, UK. (www.vr.ucl. ac.uk/projects/scream) Mike Gibbons is Head of Live Sites and UK Coordination for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. During the next four years, subject to London 2012 sponsor funding, and in partnership with the BBC and the relevant city, Gibbons and his team have to install large LED screens in urban centres across the United Kingdom as part of the programme to bring the Olympic Games in 2012 to as many people as possible. These screens will then be a legacy of the 2012 Games. Prior to joining LOCOG, Mike worked for the BBC for over thirty years, as well as running arts and education projects in media and music. He was previously Project Director, BBC Live Events where he set up a pilot project to establish what is now a network of nine Big Screens in the Public Space Broadcasting Project. This led to being part of the first Urban Screens Conference in Amsterdam 2005 and being Chair of Manchester Urban Screens Conference 2007. Other BBC work included staging major broadcast festivals and concerts, working on major projects such as The Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Live 8 and Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002. Before that, Mike ran radio stations and was a TV & Radio Producer. He’s still a working musician if he can ever find the time! M. Hank Haeusler has worked in architectural practices in Germany, the United States and Australia, including Kauffmann Theillig & Partner, Transsolar Engineering and Murphy Jahn Architects. He finished his PhD at SIAL under the supervision of Professor Mark Burry in October 2007. His research focused on the design of a Spatial Dynamic Media System for an interactive spatial communication through a 3D light grid to design a content-driven