INTERACTION DESIGN WORKSHOP (14 – 21 May 2009)
Brain Working!
Brain Working! workshop was the first interaction design event in Slovenia, part of the 11th International Festival of Creative Communication – Magdalena 2009. 17 participants (from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Serbia) with broad and diverse backgrounds worked together for eight days in Maribor, led by international experts from the field, in order to learn and practice interaction design methodology to achieve useful and fun projects situated in the local context of the city.
Interaction design
Interaction design is one of the newest specializations in the field of design, linked to digital media and digital culture.
Interaction designers design the way in which users will get in relationship / interaction with service / product / or between themselves through the product. Interaction designers design interactions. It’s a multidisciplinary filed, closely connected to product design, graphic design, psychology, sociology, communication science, anthropology, computer science, communication technologies, architecture and art.
Workshop
The aim of the workshop was to generate ideas, focused on users. Generate ideas that integrate interaction systems into the cultural environments in which they will be used. Workshop promoted interdisciplinary educational approach in the field of interactions. Participants were introduced to interaction design methodology and practice. Workshop participants were students, researches or practitioners with diverse educational backgrounds.
Supervisors
Coordinators of the workshop were Ivica Mitrović from Department of Visual Communication Design, Arts Academy, University of Split and Sara Božanić from Magdalena and Sonce.net. Group leaders were Michael Smyth from Edinburgh Napier University and Erik Sandelin and Magnus Torstensson, founders of Unsworn industries Interaction design and innovation studio based in Malmo, Sweden.
