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 of transport communications between Valldaura and the city. Transferring our bodies, physically and conceptually was the main focus of attention.

During three days of teamwork and community work, a group 10 people have been researching and discussing projects based on the idea of transportation to the site, based on experiences and recycling personal potentialities. This was the point of departure for draft projects.

The two initial days occurred in Valldaura. Transportation to that place became the vertex that structured our experience and discussion. In the third day we supported our ideas with tutorials that enriched each project.

I think we are all quite happy with the experience. For tutors and explorers these have been three enriching days.

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 group of intrinsically motivated people from various backgrounds develop design opportunities and solutions together in an open community, based on respect for each other’s skills and expertise. Open design requires a flexible and open platform that assumes open access, sharing, active participation, responsibility, commitment to do good work for its own sake, respect, change, learning and ever evolving knowledge and skills.

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 propose a methodology that is based on research, experimentation, and analysis of the use of technology in our society. For the spoken reason,  we give special value to the development of these projects that have as main purpose the improvement of the quality of life of all habitats existing on this planet.

The Masters in Advanced Interaction (MAI) is a one year  international program to explore creative uses of technology for experimental and practical purposes.

Our learning-by-doing research integrates methods used in design, programming and social sciences to produce projects, prototypes and products that will define the outer limits of what is possible  to do imaginatively with technology today.

This 75  ECTS one year programme is acredited by the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development.

We are very proud to introduce our MAI students :

Moushira Elamrawy (Egypt), Lucas De Sordi (Brazil); Gerda Antanaityte (Lithuania); Bert Balcaen (Belgium); Nazaret  Cano (Spain); Furqan Habib (Pakistan); Rafael Vargas (USA) and Martin Lukac from Slovakia.