Looking for an exciting, creative way to spend your summer?

CIID’s Summer School 2013 provides the opportunity to explore interaction design through a choice of two 2-week workshops:

Exploring BioMimetic Interfaces

The Quantified Self

Running between 15-26th July, there are 20-25 places available for each course.

CIID follows a ‘learning by doing’ philosophy so participants will be encouraged to explore the relevant topic as as a context – and then experiment, make, play and build prototypes in the studio/workshops.

Apply here!

You should be able to find all the information you need on the website but if you can’t find what you need, just email Alie Rose (info@ciid.dk).

It’s a great way to meet new people, learn new skills – work hard / play hard!

- Extended submission deadline: May 24th
- Announcement of the category winners: June 7th
- Grand finale in Amsterdam: June 21st

Are you are worried you missed the submission deadline for Future Ideas? Or it’s just not possible for you to send your thesis before April 15th? Future Ideas decided to extend the deadline so you still have a lot of time left! The new deadline is May 24th.

Submit your Master thesis to win your chance to go to Amsterdam and be one of the top three innovation Master graduates!

Future Ideas is a platform for like-minded people. Their mission is to accelerate the craftsmanship of innovation. They do this by bringing together innovation professionals during entertaining and innovation events, organising competitions in the field of innovation – and creating innovation tools like research reports, startup databases and connecting you to innovation peers.

First prize: 3500 EUR
Second prize: 1000 EUR
Third prize: 500 EUR

For more information please visit their website or email them at: info@futureideas.eu

DEADLINE: May 24th

code {poems} is a project by Ishac Bertran

Code editors:David Gauthier, Jamie Allen, Joshua Noble, Marcin Ignac

Visit the project website to see more details (inclusing a video of how the book was printed)

Recent article in Wired Magazine:

http://code-poems.com/about.html

Article By Kevin Holmes for on thecreatorsproject .

We’re surrounded by things we can’t see—and I’m not talking an invisible Kevin Bacon out to terrorise innocent people. I’m talking magnetic fields. A few week’s ago we detailed how Carsten Nicolai‘s new work crt mgn gave the invisible form by using cathode ray TVs and magnets to visualize the magnetic field. Interaction designer Luke Sturgeon and Shamik Ray have also been visualizing what’s unseen by human eyes.

In a recent project the pair decided to make visible the electromagnetic field (EMF) that surrounds many of the devices we use in our daily lives. To do this they used long exposure photography and stop-frame animation to produce light paintings that show the EMFs that surrounds laptops and a old school tape deck.

“Through a series of experiments in photographic and lighting techniques followed by hacking up an Android phone to act as an EMF indicator and then coding our own app in Processing we were able to visualize how these fields change over objects.” Sturgeon says.

You can check out the results in the video above and in the pics of electrically-charged, colorful apparitions below.

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This project was developed as part of the ‘Experimental Imaging’ class taught by Matt Cottam and Timo Arnall at CIID.

The application process for the Interaction Design Programme 2014 is open.

What We Look For

As an education concerned with the broad potential of design and technology, the Interaction Design Programme is looking for a wide diversity of students. We welcome applicants from all over the world and from any background.

You should be curious and creative; enthusiastic about design and working in a cross-disciplinary environment. Whether you’re currently studying or working, you should be interested in the connections between education and interaction design practice. We plan to have a class of up to 25 students.

Initial deadline: Friday, April 19th

Apply here

The application reviews will not start until after this date. We will continue to receive applications after this date but those submitted in accordance with the deadline will be given priority.

If you are interested in the programme, please sign up to our Pulse Mailing List. This is where we also announce up and coming events, including the OPEN Lecture series and exhibitions where you will have the opportunity to meet faculty and current students.

More information

HxD 2013 – Helle Rohde Andersen & Eilidh Dickson “Understanding Networks of Diabetes Care” from HxD Conference on Vimeo.

On March 25th 2013, Eilidh Dickson and Helle Rohde Andersen from CIID Consulting gave a talk at The Healthcare Experience Design Conference in Boston.

The talk demonstrated how a new research framework and information visualization methods can inspire designers and healthcare innovators to tackle challenging healthcare issues in ways that will provoke new understanding and build user empathy. The talk was based on a comprehensive design research project done for Novo Nordisk. The goal of the project was to assemble a 360º view into the networks of care, that support diabetes patients.

Link to the conference site – http://healthcareexperiencedesign.com/index.php

Web Lab is a groundbreaking, year-long exhibition, featuring a series of interactive Chrome Experiments that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life.

Google Creative Lab and Tellart created the concept of the Web Lab – from the user-experience as an integrated online and onsite experience, to its science museum context and audience, to the optical Lab Tag method for collecting artifacts, to the interactions between digital and physical touchpoints which allow in-museum and online audiences to collaborate.

Visitors to the London Science Museum are able to play with five unique installations, while at the same time, online participants can visit www.chromeweblab.com and interact with the same installations. Together, in-museum and online visitors will bring web technologies to life through five experiments.

For more information, you can view an indepth article as part of Dan Hill’s Supernormal series in Domus Magazine (download the iPad edition on iTunes), which features Tellart and their Web Lab project with Google at London Science Museum. – Or, visit the Tellart website.

Tellart worked alongside partners Universal Design Studio, MAP, B-Reel, Karsten Schmidt, and Fraser Randall to produce and install the final exhibit.

Photo: Andrew Meredith

Force11 (the Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship) is a virtual community working to transform scholarly communications toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. The Beyond the PDF conference brings together scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders in a lively forum, not just to broaden awareness of current efforts across disciplines, but to define the future through discussions, challenge projects, demonstrations and seeding new partnerships and collaborations.

CIID’s Head of Research, Jamie Allen is co-organising a satellite session with Erwin Verbruggen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision): ‘Approaches to audiovisual media in the scholarly body’

This session proposes to discuss the improvement of ways in which audiovisual media can be used in online scholarly publications. We intend to discuss the topic from two different angles: audiovisual media as original sources for research and as a means of expressing scholarly thought. Of interest here is the way that digital medias, and the opportunities posed to ‘manifestations of thought in all its forms’ wrought through have or have not been fully taken into the prospect of scholarly, academic and practice-oriented research culture.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 to Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, NL

If you happen to be there please stop-by and say ‘hello’ to Jamie.

More information: http://www.force11.org/node/4317

Tags: research

DIY, digital fabrication, open source software, hardware and design are opening up new opportunities for creating intelligent artefacts that explore alternative approaches to design, production and business models.

Key concepts of this revolution are openness, customisability and connectedness: people are able to access information, share over the internet, on how to build, modify and program interactive objects.

This small exhibition will showcase the work created in a 2-week physical computing class on the Interaction Design Programme. The projects focus on the home environment: a microcosm for learning, understanding & improving the variables of comfort, communication and any other key factor that defines a great quality living environment.

When: 6pm – Friday, March 15th, 2013

Where: CIID,Toldbodgade 37b, 1253, Copenhagen K, DENMARK

For the past few months, CIID has been working with the new health care design start-up Line, co-founded by alumni Sara Krugman and technology developer Ian Jorgensen.

Line has incubated some of its most innovative ideas with CIID’s Research team for the past few months, and they are helping develop CIID’s burgeoning project development programme for young designers and companies.

Line’s work is driven and inspired by the co-founders’ own experiences living with type 1 diabetes. Both Sara and Ian are leading a new wave of health care design technologies, providing beautiful and meaningful solutions to the medtech and pharmaceutical industries.

Check out their website and sign up for their mailing list to keep track of their progress and products.

Also, watch this space, as Line will be giving a Open Lecture in the coming months