OPEN Lecture: Jared Schiffman
Friday, 27th Jan 2012
SPATIAL MEDIA – Interactive Design From Three Perspectives
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All media occupy physical space. Books and magazines on paper. Films and television on screens. Signs and advertisements on posts and billboards. Not all media, however, are interactive. With the advent of the computational systems, the development of large-scale display devices, and recent improvements in sensing technologies, the landscape of interactive media has fundamentally changed.
What was previously constrained to the world of keyboards, mice and screens is now open to the world of architectural surfaces and spaces. With these new media come new questions for both designers and for technologists. How should an interactive table be constructed? How should an interactive wall behave? How should interactive floors be composed?
Extending the design philosophy of the Bauhaus, we can answer many of these questions by looking to geometry, nature and the human form. We may also look toward the cognitive scientists, to Piaget and Papert and Vigotsky, to consider how humans think about the world and how it should respond. Finally, we can look towards cinema, to see how others have imagined worlds where objects and media are unconstrained by the bounds of existing technology.
With this collection of theories in precedents in mind, we can begin to design a new type of interactive media in physical space, through a process that is as informed as it is imaginative.
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When:
Updated time!!! 7-8pm – Friday 27th January, 2012
Where:
CIID
Toldbodgade 37b
1253, Copenhagen K
DENMARK
Space is limited so please RSVP via email to: info@ciid.dk (with ‘Jared’ in the subject line)
With thanks to our Founding Partners: Novo Nordisk, Velux & Maersk who have made this lecture series possible.