Events
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IN/VISION, 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival
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Saturday, May 12
11AM–4PM
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Location
Visual Arts Theatre
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IN/VISION, the 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival at the School of Visual Arts, is a celebration of work from interaction design graduates who present their explorations in a public forum. On this day, you’ll hear talks from graduated interaction designers—a collection of scientists, humanists, artists, architects, and designers—who have completed work that connects them as people to ideas they’ll make public in the world. On stage, graduates present projects for discussion. At the exhibition, prototypes will be available for play and exploration.
You’re warmly invited to hear from the class of newly graduated interaction designers and surprise guests.
Schedule
10:00AM: Registration and breakfast
11:00AM: Liz Danzico: Opening remarks
11:10AM: IN/VISIBLEClint Beharry, Class of 2011: Keynote
Michael Yap: Memento Mori
Benjamin Gadbaw: Triple Take
Kristin Breivik and Carrie Stiens: SPOKED
Catherine Young: The Perceptionalist
Moderated discussion
12:15-12:45PM: Refreshments, Sponsored by Freshbooks
12:45PM: IN/VIGORATEKatie Koch, Class of 2011: Keynote
Allison Shaw: Scrit Scrit
Tina Ye: Hotpot
Adjoa Opoku: Showcased
JoJo Glick: The Lonely Porcupine
Cooper Smith: Recess
Moderated discussion
2:00-2:30PM: Coffee break, Sponsored by Cafe Grumpy
2:30PM: IL/LUMINATEColleen Miller, Class of 2011: Keynote
Erin Moore: Frank
Chris Cannon: Contextus
Sera Koo: Ipsis
David Bellona: Canary
Moderated discussion
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3:35PM: Paul Ford: Closing Keynote
3:55PM: Liz Danzico: Closing remarks
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5:00-7:00PM: Exhibition and reception at MFA Interaction Design Studio, 136 W 21 Street, 3rd floor
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The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship
As designers are increasingly recognized as both thought leaders and the drivers of large-scale change, it’s become evident that we’ve outgrown the traditional contexts of our work—as stewards of organizational change in large corporations, and as hired guns at consultancies. Entrepreneurship provides a third vehicle for design-driven change, yet designers have not traditionally explored this as a viable career path. In this talk, Jon Kolko will describe how a particular form of entrepreneurship—social entrepreneurship—is the new frontier for designers, and will provide illustrations of how a design led, double-bottom line, operationally self-sufficient company can create meaningful and deep impact.
Presented by Freshbooks
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Tuesday, April 10
6–8PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
Jon Kolko is the Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship. His work focuses on bringing the power of design to social enterprises, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and large-scale industry disruption. He has worked extensively with both startups and Fortune 500 clients, and he has a breadth of experience in consumer electronics, mobility, web services, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management. He has worked with big-brand clients such as AT&T, HP, Nielsen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000, as well as with startups like Socialware, Spredfast, Vast, Attivio, and more.
Read more about Jon.
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On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp
Poster by Zack Davenport
Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG, dispatches critically examining “architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures” and Co-director of Studio-X NYC, a “multifunction outpost” consisting of a research lab, exhibition space, and event venue, situated within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Jer Thorp is the current Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times and Co-organizer of the EYEO Festival, the foremost event for creative coding, data visualization, and interaction design.
Manaugh and Thorp convene to discuss cities-as-sensors and subsequent opportunities for coders, visualizers, and designers, such as, algorithms creating meaning in the construction of the 9/11 Memorial.
On the Verge format
As a department, we continually work to evolve interaction design and inform others about its role and importance. Recently, disciplines previously understood as running on parallel vectors, such as architecture and data visualization, now run oblique and are fast approaching interaction design. On the Verge is meant to explore the many seams and intersections between disciplines through conversation.
The On the Verge series is presented by Freshbooks
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Friday, March 23
7–9PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
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Interaction Salon: Notes on the Design of Participatory Systems - A Talk with Usman Haque
Cooperation is difficult. Even when everybody agrees on an end goal, and even when everybody agrees on what is needed to achieve that end goal, it does not mean that everyone (or even anyone) will be able to take the first step, which is the most important step. The talk will discuss the paradoxical structures of collaboration and ways that the paradoxes can be harnessed, illustrated occasionally with concrete examples from past work. http://www.haque.co.uk & http://www.pachube.com
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Tuesday, March 20
5–6PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design
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136 W 21st Street, 3rd Floor
New York City
Haque is a designer, entrepreneur, and director of Haque Design + Research. His work creating devices, installations and performances have been exhibited widely throughout the world. He is a former researcher at the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea and instructor at the Bartlett School of Architecture. His writings have be featured in Interactions Magazine, Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series, and Volume Magazine.
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On the Verge: Zach Frechette and Molly Wright Steenson
Molly Wright Steenson is a designer, researcher, and strategist. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where she researches the history of architectures of information. Zach Frechette co-founded GOOD Magazine and is currently the editorial director of Very Short List. He is also the founder Quarterly.co, a “subscription service that lets you receive awesome things in the mail.”
Frechette and Steenson team up to unearth pre-Internet technologies that bridge time and space: the postal service and metropolis-scale pneumatic tube networks. They will also discuss things, thingies, and thing-ness: their evolving significance, dematerialization toward experiences and data—i.e., SPIMES—and the shifting role of the designer as thing-maker.
On the Verge Format
As a department, we continually work to evolve interaction design and inform others about its role and importance. Recently, disciplines previously understood as running on parallel vectors, such as architecture and entrepreneurism, now run oblique and are fast verging interaction design. On the Verge creates conversations that explore the intersections and seams between disciplines through exchange, inquiry and the emergence of innovative ideas.
The On the Verge series is presented by Freshbooks
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Friday, April 6
6-8PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
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On the Verge: Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard
Left: screen of Shepard’s Serendipitor mobile app; right: screen of Crowley’s foursquare mobile app
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that combines social networks, location awareness and game mechanics to encourage people to explore the world around them. Shepard is an architect investigating the implications of mobile, communication and information technologies for architecture and urbanism. In 2009, he curated Toward the Sentient City, an exhibition that critically explored the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing and the city.
Crowley and Shepard convene to discuss how the built environment affects the development of “situated” technologies and conversely, how technology is increasingly shaping our physical surroundings.
About On the Verge
On the Verge is a series of moderated conversations-between-pairs presented during the Spring 2012 semester. Pairs of practitioners inhabit practices verging interaction design (architecture, data visualization, entrepreneurism et al.). Conversations are meant to explore the intersections and seams between practices through exchange, inquiry and the emergence of innovative ideas.
On the Verge format
As a department, we continually work to evolve interaction design and inform others about its role and importance. Recently, disciplines previously understood as running on parallel vectors, such as architecture and data visualization, now run oblique and are fast approaching interaction design. On the Verge is meant to explore the many seams and intersections between disciplines through conversation.
The On the Verge series is presented by Freshbooks
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Thursday, February 9
6-8PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
(View Map)
136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
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Workshop: “Intro to Designing and Prototyping with NFC and RFID”
This workshop is for:
Graduate students in any design discipline who are familiar with concepting techniques such as brainstorming and prototyping. Workshop participants should also be comfortable with digital design tools such as Photoshop, and Illustrator. Experience with Flash timeline and AS3 is preferred but not required.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
In the recent past, interaction design was mostly confined to screens, but the proliferation of digital technology has created a landscape in which physical and virtual forms are constantly interchanged with one another. This new combination of factors has empowered designers to craft product behaviors that have not previously existed. Carla Diana and Jeff Hoefs are two such designers. In their practice, they face the challenges of navigating an ever-evolving spectrum of new product behaviors that combine the physical objects with dynamic information. In this workshop, they will identify the opportunities and challenges involved in crafting hybrid physical/digital projects and discuss case studies for hybrid approaches that led to deeper solutions than those attained through traditional processes alone.
Carla Diana
Jeff Hoefs
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Hands-on intro to RFID
10-10:30AM Demonstration
10:30-11AM Participant setup
Break
11:15AM-12:45PM Working with Flash & Phidgets
Group assignments
1-2PM Lunch
Concept Creation
2-3PM Brainstorm/bodystorming exercise
Physical Prototyping
3-4PM Mockup creation
4-5PM Iterations and refinement
5-6PM Presentation and critique-
Saturday, January 14
10AM - 6PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
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On the Verge: Mike Migurski and Sarah Williams
Left: detail of Crimespotting; right: detail of Million Dollar Blocks
Mike Migurski and Sarah Williams inhabit practices verging interaction design.
Migurski is partner and Director of Technology for Stamen Design, a design and technology studio known for their civic-minded data visualizations and development of open-source mapping tools. Williams is currently the Director of Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab, overseeing the lab’s efforts to connect social data with geography. Prior to her appointment at Columbia University, Williams assisted in the development and eventual establishment of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT.
Migurski and Williams convene to discuss a range of topics related to their respective practices, such as delightful moments in cartography and the ethics of data visualization.
About On the Verge
On the Verge is a series of moderated conversations-between-pairs presented during the Spring 2012 semester. Pairs inhabit practices verging interaction design (architecture, data visualization, entrepreneurism et al.). Conversations are meant to explore the seams and intersections between practices through exchange, inquiry and the emergence of innovative ideas.
On the Verge format
As a department, we continually work to evolve interaction design and inform others about its role and importance. Recently, disciplines previously understood as running on parallel vectors, such as architecture and data visualization, now run oblique and are fast approaching interaction design. On the Verge is meant to explore the many seams and intersections between disciplines through conversation.
The On the Verge series is presented by Freshbooks
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Friday, January 20
6-8PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
(View Map)
136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
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About MFA Interaction Design
The MFA in Interaction Design program trains students to research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their business, social, and cultural contexts. It explores the strategic role of interaction design in shaping everyday life, and intends to increase the relevancy of design to business and to society so designers can make a difference.
Recently
- IN/VISION, 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival
- The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship
- On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp
- Interaction Salon: Notes on the Design of Participatory Systems - A Talk with Usman Haque
- On the Verge: Zach Frechette and Molly Wright Steenson
- On the Verge: Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard
- Workshop: “Intro to Designing and Prototyping with NFC and RFID”
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