The course is taught by Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor
Visiting faculty were:
Christian Riekoff
Christian studied Computer Science and Media at Berlin’s University of Applied Sciences (TFH), and now Experimental Media Design at Berlin’s University of Arts (UDK). He has given workshops at UDK Berlin, Karlsruhe’s University of Arts and Design (HFG), and the Interaction Design Lab at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. His group RISC (with Markus Schneider) concentrates on 2–3-dimensional and live music performance. A freelance computational designer, he has worked with ART+COM Berlin and on Deutsche Telekom’s T-Home project. His Tree graph visualizes the HTML structure of any website. He ran this project’s initial Processing workshop.
Vinay Venkatraman
Vinay graduated in Industrial Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and was a visual effects designer in Mumbai. His design work at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea included prototypes of a touch-feedback web browser for blind people, and a wheelchair controller; both prototypes demonstrated how – in developing countries – open-source software and know-how can allow the decentralized, low-cost design and manufacture of high-tech products. He has worked in India and the USA, and taught workshops in India, Denmark and, in 2005–06, IUAV’s Interaction Design Lab 1. Now living in Denmark, he is currently part of the team organizing the launch of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. With Nicholas Zambetti, Vinay ran this project’s prototyping workshop.
Nicholas Zambetti
Nicholas gained a BA in Philosophy and a BSc in Computer Science at Florida State University, and a Masters in Interaction Design at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. He has worked as an interactive product designer and interactive multimedia developer, and has designed products for Artemide, Droog Design and Mattel. His work has been shown at Milan’s Furniture Fair from 2005 to 2007. He is now an interaction designer at IDEO Palo Alto, California. With Vinay, and thanks to IDEO’s generous support of this course, Nicholas ran this project’s prototyping workshop.