campus2.0

The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) is one of Europe’s most versatile and multifaceted art universities, bringing together more than 30 programs of study in artistic disciplines and related scholarly fields in a single institution. The current situation is characterized by highly diverse initiatives aimed at yielding the synergetic benefits of interdisciplinary networking.

In response to an invitation from HyperWerk Basel, four programs in the Department of Design are working jointly within the framework of an interdisciplinary project to produce their contributions to acar2 and to explore the neoanalog theme. Participants are from product & process design, fashion design, visual communication and experimental media design.
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As contributors to the Campus exhibitions staged in conjunction with the 2005 and 2006 Ars Electronica Festivals, candidates for masters and doctors degrees in the Interface Cultures program at the University of Art and Design Linz’s Department of Media had the opportunity to present some of their interactive course-work projects, for which they received enthusiastic reviews from audiences made up of experts from around the world over the past two years. The thematic emphasis of the projects selected for 2007’s Campus 2.0 is on physical computing and hybrid interfaces. For this exhibition, the interface concept developed in the Interface Cultures program has been expanded via linkup to other artistic and artisanal disciplines such as textile design, industrial design and interior design. These works embody original, innovative concepts for interaction involving intelligent furniture, clothing and environments, interactive toys, pervasive gaming, new analog and digital musical instruments as well as technical, artistic and applied interactive prototypes and hybrid systems. www.interface.ufg.ac.at, www.interface.ufg.ac.at, www.interface.ufg.ac.at

Apply for the M.A. Interface Cultures study program!

Date for entrance examination interviews during the festival:
Monday, September 10th, 2007
To apply and to get more information about the study program and the application please contact: Dorothée Gestrich mail:dorothee.gestrich@ufg.ac.at

Prof. Dr. Christa Sommerer, Prof. Dr. Laurent Mignonneau, Heads of Interface Cultures
Exhibition Coordination: M.A. Dorothée Gestrich Staff Scientist Interface Cultures
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Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Nordwestschweiz/ HGK FHNW   The Academy of Art and Design HGK is part of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. About 600 Students are registered at the HGK. They receive a three-year Bachelor education at one of the eight institutes: Visual Communication Institute/The Basel School of Design; Institute for Interior Design and Scenography; Institute Fashion Design; Art Institute; Institute for Media Arts: Institute for Art and Design Education; Institute Industrial Design; and HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design
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FH Potsdam is the first German institution of higher education to offer both BA and MA programs in interface design. The core of a course of study in this field is an encounter with digital media that is practice-oriented, functional, creative and experimental. Many projects are developed and implemented jointly with private sector associates. The works presented here came about in cooperation with the software firm Native Instruments. The project's aim was to design new interfaces for digital music production. As immediate, physical modes of expression, these constitute a high-contrast alternative to the use of a mouse and screen.
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Christelle Chalumeaux, Katarina Dubravkova, Claude Valentin
We’ve established a network of architects, artisans and academicians who are collaborating on the ACAR2 project in Senones. Our aim is to conceptualize and construct possible, concrete, sociopolitically relevant spaces designed to be a setting for life, spaces that are centered on the practices and necessities of people living today. For us, architecture is an experiment in which we concentrate primarily on the aspect of the body and the gesture in order to conceive architecture from within and to observe the construction as it comes into being.This open platform is being utilized as a place of production and of critical exchange of knowledge and know-how. We consider interdisciplinarity today as an indispensable part of our development and of the quality of our projects. Depending on the needs of a particular assignment, we form a collective to resolve problems and surmount certain conceptual obstacles that arise during the course of the project, or at least to develop approaches to a solution. In addition to the members themselves, the network is being supported by pedagogical institutions, research labs and the following innovative facilities:
ENSAN, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (school of architecture), Nancy
CRAI, Centre de Recherche en Architecture et en Ingénieurie (research center for architecture and engineering), Nancy
ICN Business School, a member of the ARTEM alliance, Nancy
HAHA architects and HOUOT agency for the design & creation of retail outlets, Saint Nabord
IGAE group of interior designers, Paris
Christelle Chalumeaux Architecte, Paris

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Intro
Fashionable Technology looks at end users as fashionable beings, attentive to style, aesthetics, branding, and the expressive potential of wearable technologies. It refers to all design objects that are associated with aesthetics, wearability, or some degree of mobility. Thus, it includes experiments with enhanced materials, technologies, or electronic textiles, as well as testing the effects of the interaction with the objects. It deals with the aspect of craft and technology in a novel manner focusing on aspects of a ‘new generation of wearables’.
The projects presented are executed during the collaboration studio called “Fashionable Technology” at Parsons The New School For Design in New York during the Spring 2007 semester led by Sabine Seymour and Alison Lewis and the workshop course also entitled "Fashionable Technology" at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn during the Fall 2006 semester led by Sabine Seymour. In a contextual analysis, developed in group projects, the aspects of communication, aesthetics and functionality with a specific focus on the idea of dynamic surfaces were revealed and further defined. This required a parallel understanding of embedded system design, networked environments, and interdisciplinary design issues that validated the feasibility of such (wearable) dynamic surfaces. 
The diverse background of students in the studio coming primarily from the department Communication, Design, Technology at Parsons offered the ability to play with physical computing and design at the same time. The students from the textile department in Tallinn brought a fantastic insight of textile design using the Estonia as a backdrop for their projects.  
Institutions 
Communication Design + Technology at Parsons The New School For Design is a department and a collective design force of over 700 students and faculty engaged in work ranging from typographic exploration to geek graffiti, book design to game design, information visualization to animation. The programs in Communication Design (CD) and Design and Technology (DT) form a dual curricula that emphasizes experimentation, collaboration and social activism in the design of media experiences and new narratives for all kinds of people, in all kinds of places, around the world. 
The Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts focuses on two main areas of specialty know-how - weaving and fabric printing, with specialisation on creating clothing and furniture fabrics. Specialty subjects will introduce the student to designing unique textiles and industrial products, interior decoration principles, printing, dying and weaving techniques, knitting, felting, material studies, history of textile and applied arts, and ethnography.
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Fischtisch is an interactive table. The table top is made up of what might be termed individual pixels in the form of glass plates. Under each of these plates is an LED, the sum total of which constitutes a matrix.
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In collaboration with craftsmen & -women who are open to experimental approaches our strategies are put to practical tests, revised, and thus constantly optimized.
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KISD’s approach is to constantly adapt design education to the demands of our living and working environment. In 1991, the Cologne model was initiated to upgrade conventional practices and provide design education that's consistent in both theory and practice. Eleven years later in 2002,we took the next big step: the transition from the Design Department of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne to the Koln International School of Design. At KISD, design education is a matter of recognizing problems.
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HyperWerk is the name of the Institute for Postindustrial Design at the  HGK FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. In a radically experimental and interdisciplinary setup, about one hundred collaborators–students, staff, and researchers–are designing significant moments in the transition from industrial society towards a postindustrial reality yet to be discovered. This is done through strategic projects within the context of yearly topics and through the systematic organization of task-oriented forms of international networking, exchange, and support.
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Listen to and exchange ideas with the players involved in acar2. Understand leading design profs' and students' positions and products in their quest for a refreshing dimension of the digital: the neoanalog. Where and why did such a unique collaboration come about, what are its results, and what what are its aims for the future?
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