The MAS Program in Interaction Design offers to graduate students an advanced professional training that amalgamates the design culture with the technological innovation and social changes. As a specialized course, the Master Program in Interaction Design merges knowledge coming from the design disciplines in a unique profile able to set new thinking in design, in the technological innovation and in the human needs. More

The Interaction Design Workshops are a series of short courses that provide designers, artists and amateurs with practical notions for the design of interactive artifacts and environments. More

INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL AND MIXED REALITY

Lecture by Andreas Simon / Thursday 22 March, 14:00
The lecture will provide an introduction to VR and AR, present the structure and key components of typical systems and introduce the core concepts of immersion, presence, and the Mixed Reality (MR) continuum.

Exhibition / Monday 17 April
The prototype of Beehive – Modular Safety System has been selected for the exhibition "The best of Arduino" organized within The future in the Making, the exhibition curated by Domus Magazine about the new fronteers of open design, technology and maker's culture. See the project

ENACTIVE SPACES:
OR HOW DOES ACTIVATED MATTER AFFECT CREATIVE PRACTICES?

Lecture by Karmen Franinovic / Wednesday 7 March, 14:00
Responsive environments and objects are still a collage of hardware components that activate their materials and structures, lights and sounds. In this seminar, Karmen proposes a shift from such integration of actuating hardware to an experimentation on the threshold between the mechanic, chemical and electronic.

MOOD AND MEANING IN INTERACTION DESIGN

Lecture by Gillian Crampton Smith / Tuesday 15 March, 14:00
Until recently the design of interactive products and systems has been focused on efficiency and ease of use. But the artefacts we use should do more than be efficient: they carry meaning for our culture. Professor Crampton Smith will elaborate this theme, using examples from the work done at Ivrea and at IUAV.