I haven’t seen any of the summaries so far on the blog, but I’ll just upload Barbaras and mine, so let’s get the thing started!
Sara Widmer:
summaryUID.janefultonsuri
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Public Design Festival – International Competition
> Public Design Festival announces the second edition of the
> duepercinque contest, an international call for entries to search
> for ideas and projects for public spaces. The selected projects will
> be presented during the festival, that will take place in Milan on
> April 13th-18th 2009 during the Milan’s International Furniture Fair
> (Salone Internazionale del Mobile).
>
> Theme of the Competition
> The competition consists of the planning of an intervention on a
> urban parking area (2×5m). Different kinds of projects may be
> presented – i.e. installations, communication projects, community
> services, actions, urban furniture items.
> Read more
>
> Terms of Participation
> The call for entries will be open till February 10th 2009. To
> participate you have to fill in the subscribe form.
> Read more
> Public Design Festival 2010 – second edition
> Milan, April 13th to 18th
>
> During the Milan’s International Furniture Fair (Salone
> Internazionale del Mobile), Public Design Festival highlights the
> important and central role of public spaces.
>
> After 14 years of actions, projects, ideas, and concrete proposals -
> and after the experience gathered with the first edition – esterni
> presents the second edition Public Design Festival: a festival aimed
> in the first place for designers and architects, but also for public
> administrators, companies, and common citizens to focus on public
> spaces, and on how they are conceived and designed, or, on the
> contrary, neglected.
>
> For further information please have a look at
> publicdesignfestival.org.
> via Paladini, 8
> 20133 Milano
> (t) +39 02713613
> info@esterni.org
> www.esterni.org
In previous years the literature task in UID has been an exam by the end of the module. This year we wanted to make it differently. Instead of being an annoyance at the end of the course, we wanted that the course literature supports the students in the UID process, in the application of the methods, in framing the overall topic etc. Also, we would like to support master students in learning how to write about their reflections in more academic manner. The template for writing is at UID 09 website. Learning diaries should also help you in this.
The literature task has several steps:
1) 4.11. Literature workshop: you have been given an article or a chapter to read and to present to others. The aim with this part is to help you to get familiar with different articles, many of them at once. From the presentations and brochure you can start finding the ones that you feel relevant for the topic you are interested in, for your article.
2) 6.11. Delivering abstracts: Try to think what you would like to write about: create a title and write few sentences of what you aim to write about. It can be about a specific issue you find interesting in relation to UID literature, or it could be about the user study, or piazza as a public home, or . I know this is early to know what is particularly interesting in your process, but giving an early dead line aims to help you to find relevant articles, and look at the process with a specific lens, research through design. You can write individually or in pairs.
3) 13.11. Tutoring abstracts: Giving feedback on your ideas.
4) 28.11. First paper drafts due: possibility to get feedback and guidance on the writing
5) 15.11. Final papers due.
If you are motivated and your findings seem potential, you could continue the paper and hopefully submit to a design conference such as
DIS2010 (Designing interactive systems) www.dis2010.org/
Dead line 15 February: Full paper and Workshop proposal submission deadline.
1 May: Short paper, Demonstration, Doctoral Consortium submission deadline.
Design and Emotion 2010
Dead line February 15
www.id.iit.edu/de2010/des+emo-call4submissions.html
Hi all,
I just added three new user accounts (the students have hopefully received the info on mail). So, there are 6 students, who do not have an account yet. I’ll add them as soon as I know the desired details.
* Salu
PS: Note, that you need an account in order to participate in the discussion on this site, and in order to view material, which has been posted on the site as “private”.
Hi all,
I just added the students, who were present today in the lecture and could give their e-mail addresses. The others will be updated when I receive the e-mail addresses.
* Salu
I finished putting the schedule to the site. I have managed to get the blog page run as planned. I also added two additional pages. One for the course materials, such as the literature templates. The presentation slides will be added also to this page. The outline page contains description of the course as well as the criteria for passing it.
- Salu
I put this site up and running. I’m putting everything in place now.
-Salu
