The technological evolution of the past years is changing the way we live, work, learn, and entertain ourselves within an environment. It is the age of pervasive and ubiquitous computing, of augmented reality and contamination between digital and real world: designers need to familiarize with new branches of knowledge and competences in order to design spaces that can interpret users’ needs, influence their behavior, and generate visual or tangible experiences.
The goal of these series of workshop is to provide designers, artists and amateurs with practical notions for the design of interactive environments, one of the main field of interaction design, the discipline combining design culture with technological innovation and focusing on the modalities of interaction between human beings and electronic, mechanic, and information systems, such as interactive artifacts, environments, and services.
Target
The participation is open to all concerned people regardless their educational background (visual arts, design, information technologies, engineering).
RACE! 5-6-7 May 2010
Mixed reality environment – Site specific installation
with Andreas Gysin/ www.gysin-vanetti.com
MAKING SPACES TALK 26-27-28 May 2010
Physical computing
with Massimo Banzi / www.tinker.it
IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS 31 May – 1-2 June 2010
Spatial audiovisual interaction
with Roberto Vitalini / www.bashiba.com
