Cultural Probes and Pecha Kucha (20.6.10). A little report.
Our Social Spaces researchers had an active day yesterday making and sharing stories about their research and personal work and experiences. We joined a workshop on Cultural Probes and a Pecha Kucha evening.
Pecha Kucha, 20.05 in Hasselt!
Thursday the 20th Creative Class organizes a Pecha Kucha in Hasselt. Together with Design Platform Limburg, our research group Social Spaces supports this event. A lot of inspiring speakers will be there from very different disciplines (design, architecture, new media,…). When the list of speakers is online, I will let you know, but please note this date already in your agenda. The presenters are preparing!
http://www.creativeclass.be/activiteit?a=1033
Presentation Simon Bowen
If you were not able to attend the lecture by Simon Bowen in his Critical Artefact Methodology in design, you can have a look at his presentation.
Short interview Simon Bowen
Lecture Simon Bowen collaboration Media & Design Academy, Z33 (A tot Z lectures) and Social Spaces
MDA organizes lecture by Simon Bowen on Critical Design (9.2)
SIMON BOWEN (UK)
09.02.2010 om 20u00
Location: Z33
Media & Design Academy is partner in the A tot Z lectures at Z33. We have experienced many interesting lectures in that framework, like the one – organized by Z33 – by Luigi Ferrarra of the Insititute Without Boundaries.
The next lecture organized by the Media & Design Academy is by Simon Bowen, who wrote a very interesting Phd on the use of Critical Artefacts in Participatory Design processes. Simon Bowen is a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University’s Art & Design Research Centre in the UK. A central theme in his work is ‘participatory design and innovation’, via which he investigates how design methods utilising ‘critical artefacts’ (provocative conceptual designs) can lead to innovation. Simon Bowen is also active in the digital world as web designer and consultant, while his creative side finds expression in photography.
The lecture will be very interesting for designers/makers/theoreticians who look for ways/methods/tools in which they can push their work to unexpected and innovative outcomes. Bowen is very interested in discussing your work, methods and approaches after his talk.
If you wanty to come, please do not forget to make a reservation, here: http://www.a-zlezingen.be/projecten/simonbowen