Workshops - Thursday 25th June 2015
Workshop 1: Performing Digital Media Design
Jocelyn Spence
Performance is not just what happens up on a stage - but it's also more than a metaphor for everyday life. This hands-on workshop explores what happens when we design technologies that nudge people towards a more conscious, intense, risky, heightened, and aesthetic way of experiencing their digital worlds. Everyone in the workshop will use the Collect Yourselves! application, which will guide you through the selection of a few of your own digital photos and the stories behind them. Then you can feel for yourselves what happens when you perform your photos for each other. There will be just enough background theory and examples to give context to the experience, plus plenty of time for generating new ideas based on your own research interests using the Performative Experience Design methodology as a framework. The workshop is strictly limited to 8 participants. Find out more at PerformativeExperienceDesign.blogspot.com.
Workshop 2: Creativity in Collaborative Design
Monica Landoni
We invite artists, designers and computer scientists at large to come and share their experiences about raising creativity levels when running collaborative design sessions. Come if you are interested in collaborative design involving different types of users including adults, children, teenagers and senior citizens, as much as truly intergenerational experiences. We want to hear about the challenges of keeping participants engaged and stimulate their individual and social creativity. How do you set up a collaborative design study? How do you measure creativity in these settings? Can you map and attribute it to specific activities and roles played by participants? Let us share, discuss and find some answers for all of us to share and grow as community! If you would like to join us for this half day workshop please send to
monica.landoni@usi.ch a one page (pdf) description of your profile, where you describe your interests, needs and experiences with creativity and collaborative design. Try and do it as quickly as possible and anyway by 18th May. We will be very happy to meet you in Glasgow this June!
Workshop 3: Supporting Creative Design Processes in Blended Interaction Spaces
Kim Halskov
Blended Interaction seeks to combine the virtues of physical and digital artifacts in a complimentary way. This approach is well suited for developing digital support for creative work practices that acknowledge the benefits of current analogue tools and practices, so that the desired properties of each are preserved. This workshop, will investigate how Blended Interaction Spaces can support, augment and potentially transform creative work practices. Specifically we examine the following themes to advance research on IT supported creative practices: 1. Individual and social creative activities; 2. Creativity method; 3. Emergence and transformation of design ideas; 4. Generative design materials; 5. Creativity constraints
http://pit.au.dk/news-events/events/upcoming-events/cc-workshop/
Workshop 4: Psychogeographical City
Ivan Chaparro
How can we understand the city as an emotional scenario?How can we visualize the emotional information of a city? The city can be understood as the manifestation of human desire or as the projection of the collective subconscious. This workshop proposes the use of different techniques –analogical and digital– to map different kinds of information in the city, related to our emotion and perception of it. We will map the city collectively, as a game, in order to craft some visualizations and experiments. Please take a look to the following clip of a previous experiment:
https://vimeo.com/60043618
