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The 2011 Interaction Design Programme at CIID is coming to an end - and you’re invited to the final exhibition.
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Knock Clock by Gijs Huisman, Michael Owen Liston and Giorgio Uboldi is a project created in 48hours at CIID’s Summer School during the physical computing week, taught by Massimo Banzi.
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If you’re at all interested in anything I post here and have an interest in designing and making interactive stuff I can’t recommend this enough. The week I spent at CIID was one of my highlights of 2010 (after getting married and the honeymoon of course).
“CIID Summer School is a series of back-to-back workshops where participants can choose to take part in one, two or three of the available modules.
Participants will gain an overview about what interaction is and how interaction design can define behaviours. They will then have the opportunity to learn hands-on practical skills for designing tangible and graphical interfaces.
Running between 11-29th July, there are 25 places available on each module and we recommend that people participate in the full three-week programme for maximum benefit.”
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Ride Society by Anders Højmose is a mobile-based toolset designed for freeskiers – people skiing in snowparks and the backcountry. Besides being a mobile application, Ride Society consists of a series of outerwear to support the mobile experience and an online community. Together these parts create a small ecosystem. Freeskiing is all about having fun and enjoying the mountains – one of the main goals in this project was to build on that.
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Pay-and-display parking ticket machines are an example of an intensely technological piece of urban infrastructure. City Tickets by Mayo Nissen explores how we can use these ubiquitous and expensive boxes to make cities more responsive to the needs of those who live in them, and proposes a service through which ticket machines become a communication channel between citizens and their local authorities.
By taking functions that may otherwise be found on websites or interacted with through mobile devices, and physically embedding them directly in the urban fabric, City Tickets democratises access and input to municipal services and brings that dialogue to where it is most relevant and powerful: here and now.
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CIID Summer School 2010
I’m very lucky to have been part of the Summer School at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design) for the last week.
Matt Cottam ran the show with his wife Maia and took us through “an analogue exploration of interaction design” via a combination of classes, video screenings, discussions and hands on exercises to help reinforce the things we covered.
We discussed information design, service design, smart objects and urban informatics and we produced analogue infographics, performed service design roleplay and annotated street scenes with the information that could be collected, displayed and acted upon in a fictitious ubicomp utopia or dystopia. Matt finished the week by blowing everybody’s minds with his recent personal projects and talking about fablabs and the future of making things.
I had a fantastic time at Summer School and would recommend it to anyone interested in breaking free of screen based design, moving into the world of interaction design for physical/ubiquitous computing and exploring the services that they can enable. Even though I know a fair amount about the topics covered it was truly inspiring to hear someone like Matt talk about them in the way he did. I feel I’ve learned such a lot from him and consolidated even more knowledge in the week I spent there through the activities and discussions with other students.
Thanks so much to everyone that took part in the first week. I’m sad I can’t be there for the second and third weeks but I look forward to hearing the reports. A big thank you to Alie from CIID for making sure everyone was looked after and a huge thanks to Matt and Maia. I really feel I made some new friends over the last week and I hope to be able to stay in touch with everyone.
Fantastic.
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“This is a Jouney into Sound” by Fillipo Cuttica is a demo of the RHIFID speaker control system developed for the Physical Computing class at CIID. Using a combination of RFID technology, Processing and Arduino, the speakers work as location aware controllers, allowing the user to interact with music and the environment by moving the speakers around.
