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With the collaboration of

Martijn ten Bhömer, graduated cum laude in June 2010. During an internship at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (United Kingdom) he designed a now patented device for photo sharing. In his graduation project he investigated the topic of sharing experiences and cultural values in communication.After working as freelance interaction designer in projects related to surface computing and intelligent lighting he started in April 2011 with his three year PhD research on the changing role of the designer in multi-stakeholder design collaboration processes of intelligent products and services. This work is part of the Smart Textile Services project in the the Creative Industry Scientific Programme (CRISP)

and Eva Deckers graduated cum laude in June 2009 in Industrial Design. Her graduation project on how to design for perceptive qualities in artifacts continued in a three year PhD project which she started after a trip around the world in April 2010. Her work is founded in notion of the phenomenology of perception (Merleau-Ponty 1945) and of the ecological psychology (Gibson 1979). Intelligent Interior Textiles is the application field of her designs that support and show her research. By working with industrial partners out of the textile industry she tries to bring the academic, high tech and industry closer together.

This Monday, March 18th, MAI Dialogues presents Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra talks. 19.00hs, IaaC Auditorium.

Pablo Valbuena has become internationally recognized for his augmented architectures, dynamic forms where light and phisical structures combine to create a new hybrid language for form and space. Trained as an architect and having worked previously in videogames, his art projects in galleries and public space interventions preludes the explosion of “projection mapping” as a technique and has been extensively exhibited worldwide.

Jaime Serra is one of the most important names in the field of infographics today. Currently head of graphics at La Vanguardia, his body of work goes beyond the conventions of graphics for journalism and enters into the territory of information visualization and even visual poetry. His work is currently being exhibited at Ars Santa Mónica.

The conference will be streaming LIVE from IaaC’s youtube channel.

Before giving his lecture last Tuesday 26th, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.

In his lecture titled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves.  ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, Negroponte created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B. Wiesner. As director, he developed the lab into the pre-eminent computer science laboratory for new media and a high-tech playground for investigating the human-computer interface. In 1992, Negroponte became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as the first investor. From 1993 to 1998, he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme: “Move bits, not atoms.” Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995),which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some twenty languages. Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone.
In 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT.