I'm at the Media Week Media360 conference in St. Andrews. They offered me a gratis ticket and though it's not really core to my job I love hearing/talking about media so I thought I'd take a couple of days holiday and come up. And Anne and Arthur have come too.
The hotel is grand, (our room is bigger than our flat), the organisers have been very efficient and very kind and the speaker-list looks interesting.
And then you walk into the actual conference room and it looks like this. God, it's depressing. Exactly the same sort of room as every other conference. Same chairs. Same tablecloths. Same bottles of mineral water and mint imperials.
No natural light, no air, no atmosphere.
I know there are all sorts of logistical issues with rooms like this, they have to be flexible, controllable blah blah blah but surely there must be a better way. This is a new hotel, they could have thought harder about this, created a room that at least felt like you were somewhere specific. Or somewhere that stimulated some thought or excitement or stimulation.
There's all this gorgeous scenery outside, could we perhaps have a hint of that?
And I suspect that I'm the only person blogging in here. I don't see any other laptops. But maybe they're all doing it via neural implants.
If you've got time try out Fisher & Donaldson - fantastic bakers. They're in the town centre up one of the side streets.
Posted by: Anne | May 11, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Excellent tip. thanks
Posted by: russell | May 11, 2006 at 02:09 PM
It's also the sort of place brain-washing experts would use ref: landmark forum, moonies, large coporations etc...
Posted by: The Real Floyd Hayes | May 15, 2006 at 09:55 PM