Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation was great, a couple of [...]
Events
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)
Friday, May 14th, 2010Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 6-7)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Day 6 -7 Everyone was really hammering it down and getting down to work. They started getting down to building the mobile and the stationary joke exchange centre and I was really pleased to see that the students started working on a website to trade jokes, thus completing the system in an unexpected and really [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You To Me” workshop (Day 3-5)
Monday, May 10th, 2010Day 3 – Place #1 Place #1 was where things were supposed to be happening after establishing Home for the groups. Place #1 is somewhere the groups could walk to and they were to meet someone there and initiate some sort of exchange. The groups went out into Maribor and learned quite quickly that guerilla [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” workshop (Day 1-2)
Saturday, May 8th, 2010So they’ve begun. My students, Oleg, Sara, Helena, Nikola and Josip are now taking over the city of Maribor and learning the hard way that places, people and interactions don’t always come together very easily. Here’s what they were dealing with Day 1 – Home There just may be, and if there isn’t there should [...]
CHI 2010: HCI At The End of Life (10 – 15 April 2010)
Friday, February 26th, 2010Opa! My weird obsession with going to the CHI conference is finally being realised. I’m going to be presenting the work done so far and the concepts and issues with the Spomenik project with Dave Kirk of the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mikem/hcieol/ The ways in which people use technology in practices concerning [...]
Magdalena International Festival on Creative Communication (Maribor, Slovenia) 6 – 16 May, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010http://magdalena.org/ I’m going to be running an interaction design workshop with these guys Demitrios & Dash who I should probably know somehow. Having attended Magdalena in 2004, I can say its a great time (with great wine) and does a lot to bring together designers in the region. More info to follow hopefully soon on [...]