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2008.03.15 toShare: manufacTURINg. Conference and Festival in Digital arts and culture, with guest curator Bruce Sterling. Talk by Fabio Franchino, Giorgio Olivero (todo) & Massimo Banzi (Tinker.it), followed by an intense, highly engaging and insightful discussion with Donald Norman, Bruce Sterling, Luca de Biase and Gino Bastagnino at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arte, Via Accademia 6, Turin on 15th March 2008 starting at 15:00.
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Flickr images from the event.
2008.02.04 Meet the Media Guru: Bill Moggridge. His talk, Designing Interactions / IDEO: Design and Innovation / Digital Future will be at the Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Via Della Moscova 28, Milan on 3rd March 2008 starting at 19:00.
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Designing Interactions
2007.09.24 Attended Abitare il Tempo, in Verona. The Design event showcased the project 'Mutagenesis' curated by Arne Quinze, several design projects from Italian Design schools and interior projects by a range of italian designers, like Aldo Cibic.
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2007.09.04 I just uploaded the projects repository for the fifth workshop in the Design Department at Domus Academy, AroundMobile. The workshop investigates the boundaries between MOBILE technologies and the world of PHYSICAL OBJECTSthat support both COMMUNICATION and SOCIAL processes and behaviours. The Project Leaders for the workshop are: Claudio Moderini and Stefano Cardini, Giulio Ceppi, Setsu Ito and Rodrigo Torres. I personally assisted on the 'mobile++' brief.
AroundMobile
2007.08.28 The theme of this year's ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL (Sept 5-11) is GOODBYE PRIVACY. Should be interesting and very PUBLIC!
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2007.06.28 Frontiers of Interaction III brings together people working in the field of interaction design - the field is interpreted quite differently, and the event is useful in seeing what's going on in (mainly) industry and how this affects the future. This year's topic is the Internet of Things...
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Flickr images from the conference.
2007.05.30 The final prototypes made by the students of the Interactive Design Master of Domus Academy for their Physical Computing workshop will be shown at studio dotdotdot, Via Tertulliano 70, Milan on this Friday 1st June from 18:00 - 21:00.
The context of the interactive installations done for the workshop Retail Therapy is the retail space.
Project site
2007.05.15 Meet the Media Guru: Winy Maas. Co-founder of MVDVR, he will talk on Interactive Cities: Cities as mobile continuum will be at the Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Via Della Moscova 28, Milan on 29th May 2007.
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MVRDV
2007.05.10 The I-Design class of 2007 will present their projects for RoboticallyYours at Domus Academy, Via Watt 27, Milan on Friday 11th May, starting at 10:00.
Project site
2007.04.25 The ever-growing Salone Internazionale del Mobile and FuoriSalone again take place in Milan this April.
Flickr images from the week of "full design immersion".
Notable Events
Youtube video of the new Muon speakers shown at the Museum of Science of Technology, Milan. The speakers are by KEF, designed by Ross Lovegrove, and the installation was made by Moving Brands.
That's Design A new event-container aimed at proposing an exhibition of the most important design schools worldwide and of the young emerging designers during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
2007.02.19 Meet the Media Guru: John Maeda. His talk on Simplicity will be at the Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Via Della Moscova 28, Milan on 20th February starting at 19:00.
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MIT Media Lab's simplicity blog
maeda@MIT blog
laws of simplicity blog  I would personally recommend getting the book also - it's a fun read! There should be something in there for everyone.
2007.01.20 MACEF 2007. International Home Fair. May be worth a visit - highlights this year include the MACEF Design Awards - a showcase of projects from the designboom 'Ceramics for Breakfast' competition. A variety of talks are taking place throughout the fair, such with Alessandro Mendini.
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2007.01.19 New Italian Design. This exhibition at the Triennale di Milano is well worth a visit - with young 'Italian' designers' work being the focus.
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