Shots from the homemade photo booth at the CIID Christmas Party
Tomorrow starts the last week of class before I head back to New York for Christmas. You know you are at a pretty good school when your choice of classes for that week are “Crafting Interactive Spaces” led by James Tichenor and Joshua Walton of the Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group and a workshop led by Yaniv Steiner that is about creating next generation toys. What to choose???
Pecha Kucha at CIID
Tonight was the second round of Pecha Kucha at CIID, where students present 20 slides for 20 seconds each. It’s a fun and informal way to get to know each other better. People present projects they worked on in the past, pictures of their family, what their interests & hobbies are, what inspires them or anything else that they want. But remember, you have to go the next slide after only 20 seconds.
Keep on reading to see the slides from my presentation…
CIID and DKDS have just launched the official Interaction Design Pilot Year website at http://ciid.dkds.dk/. In addition to news and information, this website will grow as the year progresses with microsites for each course and a collection of student work.
From the CIID Blog
September 15th, 2008 is a long awaited date in the CIID calendar. After two years of planning and fundraising we are finally launching The Interaction Design Pilot Year in collaboration with Danmarks Designskole (DKDS).
CIID’s aim is to establish a high profile design education that encourages a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment. DKDS had been investigating new initiatives aimed at internationalising and developing the areas of interaction design & service design, proving to be the ideal partner for the Pilot Year.
Twenty-one students from nine different countries will embark on the intensive, full-time, experimental educational programme funded by the Enterprise and Construction Authority (EBST) and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
Our aim is for students, faculty and staff to work together in a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary studio environment to co-create a new kind of education that is relevant for academia and industry.
The intense one-year curriculum is varied and includes a number of skills-based modules, followed by in-depth investigations in to graphical/tangible interfaces and service design.
We hope that many interesting projects will come in to fruition throughout this inaugural year and that through working together we will create a centre for excellence in design, technology and innovation.
For more information on the course please contact Alie Rose (a.rose@ciid.dk).
