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Recently entering the Core radar, Art Center's New Ecology of Things project will offer a unique opportunity to hear from and talk with three of the designers responsible for its development--Phil van Allen, Anne Burdick and Nik Hafermaas--via an online discussion next Friday, April 25th from 1 to 2:30pm Pacific Time.

A quick perusal of the NET website reveals a riot of information and conjecture about the future of objects and information, presented in all sorts of unexpected ways; see the "words" section for a curious take on the standard glossary, as phrases related to the project fall from the top of the screen and must be "caught" by your pointer to reveal their definitions.

Other enticing morsels: The program's inaugural lecture was given by Bruce Sterling, its participants like to use the word "thingness," and the Blubber Bots from the cover of last December's Make magazine got their start in NET's labs:

We have no idea what will be said, but we're sure it'll make your head spin.