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 Cutting Edge Technologies Get Design to Speed Up Route to MarketA wearable radar-on-a-chip tracking device with many safety applications, solar-powered equipment to generate clean water and electricity, and a self-sterilising catheter are among a raft of innovations expected to emerge from a new initiative using designers to help speed up the commercialisation of new technologies from some of the UK's leading universities.The Design Council's Innovate for Universities will bring teams of designers into the technology transfer offices of universities to help scientists and technologists accelerate the development of astonishing new applications for their research. The six participating universities, announced at an event at the Design Council tomorrow, Monday 1st June, won their place through a competitive entry process. They are Aberdeen, Cambridge, Leeds, Nottingham, University College London and York. Each has nominated four fledgling technologies that will be supported by intensive design mentoring for 12 months. The 24 new technologies include innovations addressing vital issues such as chronic disease, crime and the environment. more Cutting Edge Technologies Get Design to Speed Up Route to Market design directory Design Council > Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
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 RTT USA and Art Center Explore Luminescence in Latest PodcastThe most recent Material Intersections podcast coproduced by RTT and Art Center College of Design's Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL) features LA-based design firm Padlab and its Flexicomb material, which was inspired by drinking straws fused together.The podcast, led by Michele Hess, director of RTT's Material & Color Connection, and Marshall Hamachi, CMTEL's associate director, focuses on the topic of luminescent and bringing a tactile quality to light. Flexicomb is showcased in the podcast as an interactive material that changes color and produces sound when bent. Using RTT DeltaGen, Hess and Hamachi visually communicate the concept of luminescent by virtually applying Flexicomb to unusual applications such as home interiors. "Flexicomb is typically used for lighting fixtures, but we step outside of the box in this podcast and bring Flexicomb to the interior installation of a home to show how light and shadow bring the material to life," said Hess. more www.acc... (4,735) design directory Art Center College of Design > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
 Future Mobility: New Master Programme Transportation Design at the HBKStarting from winter semester 2009/10 the HBK Braunschweig offers for the first time the master study course Transportation Design."People become more and more mobile", says Dr. Martin Scholz, course-coordinator at the Institute of Transportation Design (ITD) of the HBK Braunschweig. "We must ask ourselves which forms of mobility will exist in future." But this depends strongly on what people in twenty or fifty years will expect. In this respect the research of mobility is not only a technical task but also a socio-scientific one. Without the answers to this task designers cannot draft any sustainable products. This is exactly the approach of the master programme Transportation Design (TD), pursuing a concept which is unique throughout Germany. "It will be a unique feature of the HBK not to limit its work field to automobile design but to consider all products and systems of public mobility, from aeroplanes over railway trains to the pram, as well as to take into account engineering, design and social aspects", Scholz says. According to the opinion of the coordinator the Braunschweig model, which the HBK supports interdisciplinary features of the studies with, rises above other concepts. Thus Transportation Design at the HBK is not only a creative-artistic but also a scientific and interdisciplinary study course. more www.tra... (143) added by Levent OZLER |
 CATALYST Strategic Design ReviewPratt Institute launched CATALYST Strategic Design Review, a digital publication of the graduate Design Management Program.CATALYST is designed to encourage a conversation about the role of strategic design in shaping long-term business advantage and a sustainable future. Its intent is to provide an opportunity for design leaders and innovators to share the theory, practice and excitement of designing triple bottom line strategic advantage. Each issue of CATALYST will help design strategists map the emergence of a new global economy that is socially and environmentally benign by design. It will profile the designers and organizations who are shaping our world and transforming our materials and methods. The inaugural issue will explore New York City as an incubator for evolving triple bottom line thinking (corporate, environmental and social strategy) into a holistic methodology. more www.myg... (139) added by Levent OZLER |
 HWID2009: Human Work Interaction Design 2009 ConferenceThe Human Work Interaction Design 2009 working conference analyzes the concept of usability in social, cultural and organizational contexts.Analyzing usability in context is important for connecting empirical work analysis and interaction design. In industry, a wealth of usability evaluation methods is used to evaluate computer software user interfaces and other interactive products: Inspection methods, Workplace observation, Think-Aloud Usability Test, etc. These techniques often give - seemingly - similar results when applied in diverse social, cultural and organizational settings, but experience shows that we need a deep understanding of the cultural, social and organizational context to interpret the results, and to transform it into interaction design. The working conference will present current research into and industrial experiences with usability as a way of connecting empirical work analysis and interaction design, with a special focus on contexts in India. Cultural usability is a comprehensive concept, which adheres to all kinds of contexts in which humans are involved (private family, work, public and private organizations, nature and climate, technological, etc.). The purpose of the working conference is to enable practitioners and researchers to analyze the concept of usability and how it can be used to connect empirical work analyses and interaction designs in different contexts. event (ended) current design events more info hcdc.cd... (79) design directory Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
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