Interaction Design Workshops
 
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.
 
Through the approach of “learning by doing”, participants will acquire on a short term methodologies and techniques to manipulate and control all elements, both physical and digital, composing the software/hardware system of an interactive environment, such as sensors, projections, lights, and sound. Each workshop will focus on a precise issue in the field of interactive environments. Through the support of teachers, participants will acquire competences on technological and design issues in order to produce a functioning prototype.
 
The workshops are promoted by Visual Culture Lab (Department of Environment Construction and Design, SUPSI) and Interaction Design Lab within the activities of the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design, the new MAS program offered by SUPSI, starting next September 2010.
 
Target
The participation is open to all concerned people regardless their educational background (visual arts, design, information technologies, engineering).
 
Certificate
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance, recognizing 2 ECTS. The credits can be transferred to the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design. Tuition fees of the workshops will be deducted from those for the MAS program.
 
Download the workshops leaflet
Workshops leaflet (English version)
Workshops leaflet (Italian version)