[p2p-research] Fwd: Thinkering with Hardware workshop Jan 17

Thu Dec 4 06:25:00 CET 2008

Thanks daniel, i have also posted this on |NiNG<

Michel

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From: Daniel Araya <daniel at levelsixmedia.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:39 AM
Subject: Fwd: Thinkering with Hardware workshop Jan 17
To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com

Interesting...

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From: Vincent LaConte
To: dan at levelsixmedia.com
Sent: Wed Dec 3 17:12
Subject: Fwd: Thinkering with Hardware workshop Jan 17

As the boundaries between the design of objects, information and
environments continues to blur, teams creating the interactive products and
services of the future will need increasingly sophisticated methods for
prototyping and exploration with hardware as well as software. Join the IIT
Institute of Design on Saturday, January 17, for a day-long, hands-on
workshop on interactive hardware prototyping in the age of ubiquitous
computing, led by Professor Anijo Mathew.

Thinkering with Hardware:
interaction design workshop

Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 9:00am–5:00pm
IIT Institute of Design
350 North LaSalle Street | Chicago

OVERVIEW
This workshop will help interaction designers learn to "thinker" through
tinkering with physical computing artifacts. The idea is to bring together
talented individuals from the realm of interaction design, introduce them to
new concepts/artifacts in the realm of physical computing, and allow them to
put the two together. Most importantly, it will be an opportunity for
interaction designers to get their hands dirty with electronics, soldering,
and wiring, and learn how to interface hardware artifacts with virtual
interactions. Each participant will receive a customized interactive
hardware kit to work with and take home.

FORMAT
Registration is limited to 20 participants. The first half of the workshop
will bring designers and programmers in teams which work together to solve
short problems linking physical computing platforms, programming
environments, and traditional interaction software such as Flash. Once the
basic concepts of physical computing are covered, participants will work
together to come up with the design of an interactive system based on the
resources available at the workshop. Teams will then split once again into
separate units that tackle independent aspects of the installation with the
end goal of bringing these individual units into a cohesive whole. A
possible outcome of the workshop (for example) could be an interactive game
at the scale of a room which employs both physical sensory objects and
virtual environments. The workshop will conclude with a demonstration and
exhibition of the workshop installation at a public reception hosted by the
Institute of Design.

'THINKERING'
John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director
of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), claims the process of tinkering
with physical objects is what allows us to evolve from using tools as
instruments to using tools as conduits for productive inquiry. While some of
this ability of ours to 'tinker' was lost when product design became
"cognitively impenetrable," the digital era is bringing it back…through a
culture of participation that includes tinkering, building, remixing &
mashing up. The 'Thinkering Spaces' initiative at ID, led by Dale Fahnstrom,
T.J. McLeish, Heloisa Moura and Greg Prygrocki, takes this one step further:
tinkering promotes more than just learning about the topic of inquiry; it
promotes the development of critical thinking skills that will prepare us
for more complex scenarios that may be unrelated to the current object of
our tinkering. According to the Thinkering Spaces team, this process of
thinking while tinkering inevitab
ly leads to "thinkering" a semantic conjunction borrowed from Michael
Ondaatje's The English Patient where the term is used to "suggest collecting
a thought as one tinkers with a half-completed bicycle."

FACULTY
Anijo Mathew is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Design (ID) at
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. After his professional
BArch from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, he went on to
complete an MDesS from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Prior
to joining ID, he was a tenure track Assistant Professor at Mississippi
State University's College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD) where he
taught in the graduate program and led the interaction design track at the
Design Research and Informatics Lab (DRIL). He is currently working on a PhD
at the Open University in the UK exploring the intersection of computing and
design.

REGISTRATION
Price: $625 per person; $525 for ID alumni
Includes breakfast, lunch, reception, and interactive hardware prototyping
kit.
Limted to 20 participants. Register by January 12, 2009. Sorry, no refunds
after January 5, 2009. Substitutions allowed.

register now:
www.id.iit.edu/917/

Questions? Contact Vincent LaConte, vince at id.lit.edu

Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology
http://www.id.iit.edu<http://parse.pl/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.id.iit.edu>

350 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
USA

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