introductory of smart net studio

By antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net | Published: November 18, 2012

This Friday we had introductory lecture of our first studio. Xavi Gonzalez and Tomas Diez presented smart citizen platform that was created and developed in Fab Lab Barcelona. It is an open source project created to generate participatory processes of the people in the cities.

Presentation was followed by smart cities panel discussion about network data, urban space and human behaviors. And concluded with lecture given by Tony Brey, founder of  Urbiotica – company that operates smart environment solutions.

some links related with projects presented during lectures:

http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/
http://www.quadrigram.com/
http://www.bee-path.net/
http://www.futurict.eu/
http://www.sociopatterns.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-tRHNElTo4

Community and collaboration makes cities the driving force. Sharing common values is the way to create better environment and move forward. It should be exiting to contribute this project and reveal new patterns of building smart society.

photos by Lucas De Sordi

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Fabrication: Making Things Move!

By Moushira | Published: October 22, 2012

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 with different materials.

Check the image gallery for more details on our students work.

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BOOT CAMP. DISCOVERING VALLDAURA: 1st DAY

By iaac | Published: October 19, 2012

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 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.

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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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