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A few places left, apply soon...
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Informing the design of the future urban landscape
Workshop :: 17th August :: DIS2010 :: Aarhus, Denmark http://www.dis2010.org
Workshop website :: http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
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This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners and researchers from across disciplines. Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise designed to reveal issues that will increasingly impact upon the design of the products and services that will populate the urban landscape in the near future. The outcome of this workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers and technologists will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban landscape. It is hoped that this workshop would form the basis of a new collaborative network with the aim of taking this technological design research agenda further.
It is envisaged that the urban spaces of the future will be saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and shape the increase of data residing in our environment will be a significant challenge. The forms in which this data will be presented, and how we decide to conceptualise it, is as yet unknown. Will the technologically enriched environment adapt to accommodate human/city contact points, and, in response, how will we choose to interact with and navigate through, this information landscape?
The workshop organisers have already received an excellent mix of high quality applications from several countries, and we are looking forward to a very interesting and productive workshop. There are a small number of places left, so please get in touch soon if you would like to apply for the workshop.
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Participation and selection
As the aim of this workshop is to generate discussion and to collaboratively identify design issues, we would like to encourage attendance from a mix of people at different career stages, both creative practitioners and academic researchers. As interdisciplinarity is an important feature of this workshop, participants from a range of backgrounds in the fields of technology and creative design are welcome to attend.
More information on submission procedure on the workshop website ::http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
You will be notified of your acceptance to participate in the workshop as soon as possible, please note that early registration is available until 1st July.
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Research questions
The workshop will seek to address questions such as: What form will the information landscape take? How will people adapt their behaviours and indeed how will the nature of the urban landscape alter as increased amounts of information is overlaid on the physical environment? What new products and services will be available given the increase of targeted information aimed at specific communities and interest groups? Will this result in an increase in segmentation and fragmentation associated with the urban experience leading to the possibility of the creation of multiple experiences of the same physical space. What will inform the visual aesthetic of the future information landscape?
The workshop will seek to explore the 'bleed points' where the physical and virtual worlds connect or indeed, disconnect. Examples will be drawn from advertising and product design (art works). Furthermore the workshop will focus on the small ideas that underpin the 'big questions' that too often overwhelm researchers. Indeed, it has been said that the 'devil is in the detail', subsequently the workshop will invite participants to adopt an attitude of curiosity as they seek to unpack the nature of peoples' rituals, habits and priorities, focusing, in particular, on the potential for behaviour associated with existing technologies.
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Workshop organisers
Michael Smyth & Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design,
Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK
As the background of the organisers is in the field of Interaction Design, they have a research interest in how personal technologies are used and appropriated to record and share thoughts, times and places. Therefore, while this workshop uses technology in its delivery, it is an important factor in this experience that the technologies should be those that the participants carry with them (i.e. mundane) in their everyday lives.
http://www.michael-smyth.co.uk http://complexpleasures.wordpress.com/about/
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For more information please contact Ingi Helgason :: [log in to unmask]
The DIS conference addresses design as an integrated activity spanning technical, social, cognitive, organisational, and cultural factors.
http://www.dis2010.org
Workshop website :: http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
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