UrbanIxD Summer School: Designing Interactions in the Networked City
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When :: 23rd Aug - 1st Sept 2013
Where :: Split, Croatia.
Who :: Open Call for Participation
Application deadline :: Monday 15 April, 2013
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www.urbanixd.eu<http://www.urbanixd.eu/>
http://urbanixd.eu/summer-school
The UrbanIxD (Urban Interaction Design) Summer School will be grounded
in the emerging discipline of urban interaction design. The Summer
School will address the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich
urban environments, with a particular emphasis on human activities,
experiences and behaviours.
Theme of the Summer School
Explosive innovation and adoption of computing, mobile devices, and rich
sources of data are changing the cities in which we live, work, and
play. It's about us, and how computing in the context of our cities is
changing how we live. The urban spaces of the future will be saturated
with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information.
How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and shape the
increase of data residing in our environment will be a significant
challenge.
The UrbanIxD Summer School will explore our relationship with data in
the Networked City of the near future. The approach will focus on human
interactions and how these might change and develop and thereby impact
on the development of cities. The output of the Summer School will
provide the opportunity to rethink what intelligent connected
communities of the future might actually look like.
Format of the Summer School
The Summer School will be an 8-day interdisciplinary, workshop-style
event hosted by the Department of Visual Communications Design, Arts
Academy, University of Split. Croatia.
International speakers will address the theme of Human Interactions in
the Networked City, from different perspectives. However the focus of
the Summer School is on activity, and participants will spend most of
their time working in Atelier groups. These groups will be led by
experienced practitioners and researchers and will consider the theme of
the Summer School from different viewpoints.
The Summer School will conclude with a public showcase of the outputs of
the Atelier groups and this work will contribute to the future research
of the UrbanIxD project.
Participation in the Summer School: Students, Researchers, Practitioners
Participants will be selected through an Open Call, and anyone is
welcome to apply - all applications will be considered on their
individual merits. Participants will be selected to achieve a good
balance within the atelier groups, so that everyone has the best
possible experience of interdisciplinary work. The School is
particularly aimed at three main groups of participants:
• Students, particularly postgraduate or research student
• Researchers and academics with up to five years working experience
• Working practitioners with up to five years working experience
In the domains of Design, Interaction Design, Architecture, Urban Design
& Planning, New Media Art, Technology, Sociology, Anthropology and
other related disciplines.
Participants who successfully complete the school will be awarded 1.5
ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)
Costs and Practicalities
Registration for successful applicants will be €100.00. This subsidised
fee includes 9 nights accommodation in Split and most meals, as well as
the Summer School. Participants must make their own travel arrangements
to Split.
Application Details
Application deadline :: Monday 15 April, 2013 and Notification by Monday 29 April, 2013.
To apply complete the online application form from the UrbanIxD website: http://urbanixd.eu/summer-school
Background to Urban Interaction Design
Cites have always raised particular issues for technologists and
researchers. But today, more so than ever, a transformation is taking
place in how our cities work. Cities are being laced with sensors, which
in turn generate urban informatics experiences, imbuing physical space
with real-time behavioural data. A digital landscape overlays our
physical world and is expanding to offer ever-richer experiences. In the
cities of the future, computing isn't just with us; it surrounds us,
and it uses the context of our environment to empower us in more
natural, yet powerful ways.
The vision of Ubicomp is currently being manifest in Pervasive
Computing, and the Internet of Things, but rather than casting the human
at the centre of this vision, today’s citizens appear to be engaged
either as consumers or nodes in the vast network that comprises the
city. What is clear is that the urban fabric itself is becoming
increasingly reflexive and responsive, and this in turn has numerous
implications for the design and experience of cities as a result.
UrbanIxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City
A Coordination Action project funded by the European Commission under
FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET Open). 2013 – 2014 Project
Number: 323687
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