Last week, MAI students presented their first fabrication assignment, which focused on the usage of laser cutter to fabricate objects that represent transformational movements. Students’ projects demonstrated several motion techniques including: Gears, linkages, Kirigami, etc. That was a one week quick assignment to help our students become more familiar with the usage of laser cutter [...]
18th. Oct. 2012. Bootcamp Log by Alfonso Borragan. This is the memory of an action that is recorded in the printed projects but more so in the memory of the participants involved. This bootcamp has been an intense contact experience with notions of the territory, inventiveness and creativity. It grew up as practical problem: that [...]
For the MAI OPENING LECTURE, IAAC welcomed Caroline Hummels. Caroline Hummels is Director of Education at the Department of Industrial Design, and associate professor on Aesthetics of Interaction in the Design of Intelligent Products and Systems’ at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. For Caroline, “open design is a specific approach to design, in which a [...]
On 2 October IAAC inaugurated the first edition of the Master’s programme in Advanced Interaction MAI. “ Thinking and developing interaction”. This Master in Advanced Interaction is a programme based on the analysis and design of devices and inactive systems, oriented to any professional discipline in which the use of technology appears as a necessity. We [...]
