I will be talking on the Urban Interfaces conference in Oslo the 14th of September. I will be talking about previous work with urban gaming (”The Institute of PanGalactic Studies“) and about current work with my Master thesis (”Adventures in Urban Computing”).
For the last couple of months I have been working on my Diploma in interaction design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project will be delivered in December, and exhibited in January. The theme for the Diploma is Urban Computing; an emerging multi-disciplinary research field that focuses on computing and digital networks in urban landscapes, and on the cultural and social impact this has on the city. The project is situated between urbanism and interaction design and works specifically with designing mobile technology devices with the purpose of provoking and gathering opinions about everyday life in cities and towns. The conceptual backdrop of the project consists of oldschool psychogeography, the exploration of the Arctic, the commonplace and Indiana Jones. The project´s vision is to design and equip an exploration into the non-spectacular and mundane side of city life.
I´m currently working with theory and concepts, but will rapidly be moving on to practical exercises and prototyping. The thesis-program can be downloaded from here:“Adventures in Urban Computing” (program)