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Preliminary announcement
Designing for communities
An Interaction Design Summer School
organized by the i3 network and the Interaction Design Institute
Ivrea, Italy - September 1st - 10th, 2001
Concept
i3 (intelligent information interfaces) is a research program launched by the
European Community in 1996. Its aim is to promote research focusing on new
interaction paradigms in which communities of users interact with and through
information and communication technology. i3 research proposing in a new form
the question of user-centred design and scenario-based design of ICT
applications, has contributed to radical innovation of software culture,
opening it to the design culture (social scientists, technologists and
industrial designers cooperate in many i3 projects) and proposing a radical
change in software development: from interaction patterns to functions instead
of from functions to interfaces! Virtual and augmented locations have been
designed, implemented, tested and redesigned to open new interaction
possibilities to different communities of users who have actively participated
throughout the life cycle. Even the learning environments have been reconsidered
from this perspective.
i3 is not an isolated event: the same perspective has inspired several research
centres and schools in Europe and in the United States. The Interaction Design
Institute has been recently created to train students coming from both the
design and the software field in the new area of interaction design.
The Summer School will introduce a new generation of researchers to the
extraordinary work done and stimulate the research and industrial world to
conceive new ideas and artefacts, and share their processes directly with the
users.
Interaction Design is still a dynamic research field where new concepts and new
ideas are continuously proposed and discussed to cope with technological
innovation and with the emerging needs of both social and professional
communities. We think that it is now time to offer the occasion to develop
interaction design competence to young designers, educated in computer science
and engineering, social science and ethnography, and industrial design and
working in both universities and private companies.
The theme chosen for the 2001 Interaction Design Summer School is "Designing for
Communities". Its main focus will be, on one hand, on new approaches to
user-centred design capable to develop cooperation between diverse cultures in
the design process, on the other, on the support needed by various types of
communities (local and learning communities, communities of practice and/or of
interest, .) for developing their identity and/or improving performance.
We think that the emphasis on the user aspects of the design process is an
important point for educating interaction designers who will be capable to
design and develop useful and successful applications. This initiative promotes
convergence in the IT world and stimulate creativeness with a bottom-up
approach. The future of the technology relies on the multidisciplinary approach
and on the direct involvement of the users. Information and communication
technologies are for communities, so communities must be the main actors in the
design of new appliances.
Innovation does not simply mean to follow a technology-driven design to cope
with the introduction of new technologies, but just the opposite: to tailor
technological development to its needed use by communities through
multidisciplinary design.
The Summer School is organised by Gillian Crampton Smith and Giorgio De Michelis
assisted by an advisory board composed of Riccardo Antonini, Alberto Bianchi and
Thomas Rist.
Who should attend
Graduate students at masters or PhD level (or advanced undergraduate students
with appropriate experience) as well as young designers with few years of
experience working in universities, research centres and/or private companies
all over the world are invited to apply to attend the Interaction Design Summer
School. The School features:
· lectures by leading researchers and practitioners in the field
· participation in design ateliers devoted to the creation and
exploration of innovative ideas for supporting communities
· 10 days of interaction in a warm social setting as part of a community
of practice.
The fee for participating in the Interaction Design Summer School is Euro 500.
We expect the final fee to be paid by PhD and graduate students will be
substantially lowered if not reduced to 0 Euro, thanks to the support of the
European Commission and private sponsors. The final call will give details on
this subject, and it is due in April 2001.
For updated information on the Summer School check www.i3net.org
Follow the link under "News" to i3 Summer School 2001.
More information on the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea can be found on
www.interaction-ivrea.it.
If you want to receive further information about this Summer School please
email Giorgio De Michelis, [log in to unmask]
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