The symposium is the main conference at NODE and is the place where we open up a broader art or design discourse. Design is a plan to accomplish a particular purpose. Technology allows us to weave design into the fabric of everyday life. Hope is a fundamental source of power. Hope can be professionally created and destroyed. And it is routinely being done by policy makers, politicians, terrorists, product designers, hackers, teachers, journalists, artists and parents.

As part of NSYNK I designed and developed with the help of mobile technologies, an installation for the stage of the symposium which allowed the audience to send their hopes, ideas and comments through a website to printers on stage. Those prints were later used during the barcamp dinner to bring the participants together and open up new conversations and discussions about the topcis of the symposium.