Category Archive for "People" | IICloud(s) – Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s)

ECAL / M&ID

By Patrick Keller Monday, September 1, 2014 People, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0008, Architects, Designers, Designers (interaction), ECAL, Teaching Permalink 0

ECAL / Media & Interaction Design

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Prof. Patrick Keller

Co-Head of the I&IC design research.

Patrick Keller is Professor at the University of Art & Design, Lausanne (ECAL) where he teaches design in the Media & Interaction Design unit. He was in charge of this unit between 2001 and 2004. In 2007, he led the design research Variable_Environment that united designers from ECAL and scientists from EPFL (design & sciences research).

Patrick is a founding member of fabric | ch, a studio for architecture, interaction and research. As part of his activity as creative director for the studio, he formulates new space proposals that combines digital, physical and environmental dimensions. Oscillating between devices, installations, experiments and productions, the work of the collective has been exhibited and published internationally, so has presented in numerous talks.

Patrick Keller studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) where he graduated in 1993 (M.Sc) and in Berlin. He then continued his education in the research labs of the EPFL with a postgraduate in Computer Graphics (Mas). Patrick worked at the EPFL as a research assistant where he contributed as a designer on several research projects between 1996 and 2000, before formally founding fabric | ch in 2001.

Contact: patrick[dot]keller[at]ecal[dot]ch

HEAD / MD

By Patrick Keller Monday, September 1, 2014 People, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0007, Behavior, Designers (interaction), Ethnographers, HEAD, Teaching, Users Permalink 0

HEAD / Media Design

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Prof. Nicolas Nova

Co-Head of the I&IC design research.

Nicolas Nova is Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD – Geneva) and founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a design studio based in Europe and California. His work is about identifying weak signals as well as exploring people’s needs, motivations and contexts to map new design opportunities and chart potential futures.

Nicolas has given talks and exhibited his work on the intersections of design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals in venues such SXSW, AAS, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and the design week in Milano, the Institute for the Future, the MIT Medialab.

He holds a Phd in Human-Computer Interaction from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) and was previously a visiting researcher at the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA). He is also curatot for Lift Conference, a series of international events about digital culture and innovation.

Contact: nicolas[dot]nova[at]hesge[dot]ch

EPFL / Alice

By Patrick Keller Monday, September 1, 2014 People, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0006, Architects, EPFL, Landscape, Teaching, Territory, Urbanism Permalink 0

EPFL / ALICE – Atelier de la conception de l’espace

Prof. Dieter Dietz

Educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Arch. Degree 1991), Dieter Dietz also studied at the Cooper Union in New York with Diller/Scofidio. Since 2006, he is Associate Professor for Architectural Design at EPFL, director of the ALICE laboratory in the ENAC faculty. He collaborates with the ALICE team on research projects at diverse scales with labs inside and outside EPFL.

Contact: dieter[dot]dietz[at]epfl[dot]ch

EPFL + ECAL Lab

By Patrick Keller Monday, September 1, 2014 People, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0005, Designers, Electronics, EPFL_ECAL_Lab Permalink 0

EPFL + ECAL Lab

Nicolas Henchoz

Based in Lausanne, the EPFL+ECAL Lab was founded by Nicolas Henchoz in 2003 to explore the potential of emerging technologies. Its mission is to foster innovation at the point where technology, design and architecture overlap.

Under Nicholas’s direction The Lab’s activities are focused on three main concerns. First, to develop practical, real-world applications for technologies developed in the scientific labs. Secondly, to drive innovation by widening the scope of designers’ work. Thirdly, to form new links and develop synergy between researchers and wider society seeking technological and other innovative solutions.

One key area of exploration is augmented reality which developed into an exhibition, Gimme More, in New York earlier this year. It is part of a project aiming to better understand how augmented reality can be developed into a medium in its own right.

Nicholas Henchoz’s teaching and research concerns include augmented reality, innovation management and material science. He has been named among Bilan’s “300 Most Influential People in Switzerland”. The EPFL+ECAL Lab is a unit of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Europe’s leading research & development university – in co-operation with the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne.

Contact: nicolas[dot]henchoz[at]epfl[dot]ch

Partners

By Patrick Keller Monday, September 1, 2014 People, X-Posts Tags: 0004, Architects, Code, Curators, Designers, Developers, Participants, Scientists, Sociology, Thinkers Permalink 0

Guest Researchers, Practitioners & Thinkers (in order of appearance)

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James Auger (Auger-Loizeau), London – workshop #2 at HEAD

James Auger has a BA in Product Design from Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art. Between 2002 and 2005 he was employed as a research associate at Media Lab Europe, where the main focus of his research was a design-based investigation into technology-mediated human interaction. He then worked at the Issey Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo as guest designer. Since 2005 he has been teaching and continuing his research in the Design Interactions programme at the RCA.
James is also a partner in the Speculative Design practice Auger-Loizeau, whose projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including MoMA, New York; 21_21, Tokyo; The Science Museum, London and the Ars Electronica festival, Linz, and are part of the permanent collection at MoMA. In 2003 James was awarded the Köln Klopfer International Designer of the Year by the students of KISD in Germany. James Auger is an external examiner at Edinburgh College of Design, visiting professor at HEAD – Geneva, and on the judging panel of IF Design awards.

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (#Algopop), London – workshop #3 at ECAL

British/ Colombian Artist and Designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez makes work that critically and playfully examines sociocultural entanglements with technologies. His current interests span algorithms, bots, automation, copyright, 3D files and file-sharing. He was awarded a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for the project Disarming Corruptor; an app for disguising 3D Print files as glitched artefacts. He is also known for his computational approach to aesthetics translated into physical sculpture.

For research purposes he runs Algopop, a popular tumblr that documents the emergence of algorithms in everyday life as well as the artists that respond to this context in their work. This has become the starting point to a practice-based PhD funded by the AHRC at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is also a research associate at the Interaction Research Studio and a visiting tutor. He holds a BEng in Computer Aided Mechanical Engineering from Kings College London and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art.

Dr. Christian Babski (fabric | ch), Lausanne – developer

Christian Babski is lead programmer and co-founder at fabric |ch, a studio for architecture, interaction and research based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
As scientist, Christian Babski takes part in the technical and software development of research projects within the group. Through experimental projects, he developed specific skills in interfacing heterogeneous systems/mechanism/hardware by achieving specific software libraries in numerous distinct programming languages. Therefore, he is used to manage computer hardware, sensors, mobile devices as well as network and online technologies or services.
Christian Babski holds a Phd in Computer Graphics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne), where he was involved into several European research projects. He previously graduated in Computer Science (Ma) in Dijon (France), prior to finalizing a Master of Science (M.Sc) in Lyon (France)/Geneva (Switzerland).

Contact: christian[dot]babski[at]fabric[dot]ch

Dev Joshi (Random International), London – workshop #5 at ECAL

Dev Joshi is Head of Technology at contemporary art studio Random International. Having trained in product design engineering he has spent the last five years at Random finding ways to bend technologies and systems for use outside their usual arenas. In addition to his work in the arts, Dev has recently launched Headless Ghost, a Kickstarter funded display emulator and is CTO at Product Laboratories Limited – developers of Rain Cloud, a connected weather device. Focusing on hardware and humans, Dev enjoys exploring the interface between people, objects and the behaviors of both as well as how technology can be used to convey information across the fields of art and science for both practical and emotional expression.

Sascha Pohflepp, Cologne – workshop #6 at HEAD

Sascha Pohflepp is a German-born artist, researcher and writer whose work has been known to probe the role of technology in our efforts to understand and influence our environment. His interest extends across both historical aspects and visions of the future and his practice often involves collaboration with other artists and researchers, creating work on subjects ranging from synthetic biology to geo-engineering and space exploration. Notable exhibitions include Talk To Me at MoMA New York, Hyperlinks at the Art Institute of Chicago, Micro Impact at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Pre-History of the Image at STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven, Science Fiction: New Death at FACT Liverpool and an online project for opti-ME* at Auto Italia South East in London. Sascha’s work has earned two Honorary Mentions from the VIDA Art and Artificial Life Awards and in June 2015 was shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize.