http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog interaction design: work in progress Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:14:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like every year, January arrives and once again, I have the great pleasure of running the ENSAD/MIT workshop. This is a collaboration between the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the MIT Media Lab’s High-Low Tech group. It is a hands-on, extremely intensive workshop - and this one, of ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/rebellious-chairs-at-ensad/ This project is another exciting collaboration with Myriel Milicevic - It is a proposal prepared for a nature/art event in Germany. Following the trails of a great mythical bird, we create a unique space and special tools for observation into its remarkable story. Looking at this story we open a discussion ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/820/ Dave and I are trying some new possible design, as we are looking at manufacturing the FabFM board and kit. This means we look at new components and structure, which can be soldered and built by a wider audience. This affects the design of the board, but also the external shape ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/804/ Once again we celebrate the meeting of design and technology, high-low tech style: combining the exquisite crafts practice at ENSAD with the new materials and technology from MIT. This year we focused on Screen-Printing, Professor Leah Buechley from High-Low Tech group of the Media Lab, arrived with 4 of her ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/screen-printed-electronics-with-mitensad/ Last week I participated in the Mediamatic hacker camp 2010. As always in Amsterdam, there were great people, sweet ambiance and plenty of coffee. I had the pleasure to collaborate with Nadya Peek and JB Labrune and design our obsessive social-networking installation: ikBijt. The ikBijt is a unique piece of furniture, ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/mediamatic-dev-camp-10-ikbijt/ The paper about Fab FM got accepted to TEI 2011(the conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction). So if you are interested, and planing to go to Madeira next year, make sure you hear Dave's presentation and see the demo. http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/fab-fm-for-tei-2011/ Last Friday we had a first hands-on workshop for our radio kit, the Fab FM. This project is collaboration with Dave Mellis, at the MIT Media Lab High-Low Tech group. Fab FM allows people to fabricate their own radios, or even manufacture small series. People can follow our basic kit design ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/fab-fm-workshop-at-the-media-lab/ A visit at IDHO's Interaction Lab, to give a little talk about play experience and to check out the students presentations of their own play experience designs. So far they focused on game-play and some screen based stuff - but their semester has just started... We will keep an eye ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/playidho-at-the-interaction-lab-holon/ I had the pleasure to guide the workshop at the great Parisian school of design, ENSAD. The mixed background students, worked in six groups of two and created awesome hybrid projects blending old tradition and new technology. You can read more about each one of the projects and process ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/hybrid-materials-workshop-at-ensad/ The Fab Radio just made a fabulous appearance on Makezine. Fab Radio is a lovely project allowing everyone out there to build their own personal radios. This was part of Dave Mellis' project for the Neil Gershenfeld's famous class: "How To Make (almost) Anything". We were ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/fab-radio-on-make-blog/