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2012 12 21

By antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net | Published: December 27, 2012

Well, the world didn’t end just because someone has good connections up there.

In fact the last Friday before holidays we were testing sound recording possibilities in sound design studio together with Carlos Gomez. Carlos brought umbrella and couple of microphones. Microphones placed on the rod and pointed to umbrella’s inner hood made it work as reflecting instrument. It helped to direct and control sound dispersion and record it. This experiment revealed main principles of sound reflection and possibilities of creating simple sound managing  tools.
And finally using this weird apparatus we had good time watching frightened faces of passers by. Happy holidays!

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OPENING LECTURE MAI: CAROLINE HUMMELS

By iaac | Published: October 17, 2012

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 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.
http://id-dock.com/pages/overig/caro/caro.htm



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INAUGURATION MASTER IN ADVANCED INTERACTION

By iaac | Published: October 17, 2012

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 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.

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