On Thursday June the 18th, at 18:00, the Master in Interaction Design Department together with Project Leader Massimo Banzi will be proud to receive all participants to the Opening of the Brave New Museums Exhibition. The Exhibition will showcase 5 original prototypes for museum installations conceived, developed and built by the students of the 2009 Master Course in Interaction Design.
The prototypes are the result of the 4 weeks workshop on physical computing and tangible interfaces. Conceptual development and prototype building were led by Project Leaders: Alexandra Deschamps Sonsino and Massimo Banzi of Tinker.it!.
All the phases of the concepts development, together with early sketches, process materials and video prototypes are available on the workshop blog.
Exhibition will be Open Thursday June 18, in Room 003 at Domus Academy, via Watt 37 starting at 18:00.
Posted 8:03pm on the 17th of June, 2009
Monday June the 15th the Master in Design and Interaction Design at Domus Academy Launched their 5th yearly workshop. For the last Seminar of the year the two classes will be working together facing the challenge of designing innovative urban information infrastructures for the 2015 Expo in Milan.
The work will be informed by a collaboration with the Master in Urban Management and Architectural Design, which has been developing several proposals for the set up and management of the “Via di Terra” one of the two major paths that the city of Milan Administration has thought as the main links between the Expo Area and the City Centre.
The students of the two Masters will be led in this intriguing last work by project leaders: Luca Buttafava; Paolo Cesaretti; Setsu Ito; Robert Le Quesne & Domenico Pisaturo.
Presentations of the workshop results will be publicly presented on Friday July the 10 in Room 001 at Domus Academy.
Posted 7:35pm on the 17th of June, 2009
Friday June the 12th the students of the Master Course in Design presented to the Faculty and to the Course Director the results of the Changing Workshop.
Presentations begun with the groups that worked under Claudia Raimondo’s direction. The projects, taking inspiration on Owen Jones’ work, focused on developing the surface of new materials.
Following were the students led by Eliana Lorena. The works presented explored the potential of bringing to the 3rd dimension methods and techniques that are traditionally bi-dimensional.
The session, then, was concluded by the projects proposed by Emmanuel Gallina’s groups. These last works concentrated on shifting the characteristics of objects by changing their finishing and their materials.
Particular emphasis was laid on finishings and the way they connect to emotions, therefore eliciting different reactions. Several interesting proposals were illustrated, outlining potential new objects typologies.
Posted 7:00pm on the 12th of June, 2009
