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Issue 16 April 13, 2015 the New Black with Fredrik Ausinsch Article Issue 16 April 13, 2015 The New Black with Fredrik Ausinsch Article A Startup’s Plans for a New Social Reality TED How equal do we want the world to be? Opportunities Ställverket Logo Competition + Braun Prize 2015 + Remus Technologies + Rotellando – Design Summer School Stay in the Loop Weekly TED Video Opportunities APD 1 Project 2: Strategic Design Dan Ariely: Kitchen Cleaning IDI How equal do we want the world to be? You’d be surprised… logo APD 2 Degree Project STÄLLVERKET Workshop Cleaning BA 2 The news of society’s growing inequality contest makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely TD 1 Design Project 2: Strategic Design reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is It’s time for Ställverket to update the old logo and we would like to ask for distributed over societies... then shows how your help TD 2 Degree Project it stacks up to the real stats. BRAUN PRIZE 2015: What is your Extra in the Ordinary? Use whatever media you want Open to students, professionals and enthusiasts. The 19th edition of the BraunPrize chal- and send your submission to IDI Design Communication [email protected] lenges creative minds to envision the extra in the ordinary. It can be something that changes or put it in the provided box the quality of your life or the world, simple or complex, big or small, physical or virtual… PS. There will be a prize for the winner! IxD 1 Project 2: Service Design We are looking for the solutions that are better by design and ideas that appear obvious and even extraordinary in hindsight. Our everyday is becoming an artifi cial environment of ar- chitecture and technology and while it seems that the quantity of products around us is con- stantly increasing, their level of quality, both in execution and thinking, is not. We surround IxD 2 Degree Project ourselves with things we don’t really value, instead of focusing on fewer but better solutions that contribute to our lives. With this in mind, the BraunPrize 2015 is looking for product ideas that are extraordinary. 31/08 - 06/09 2015 BA 1 Design Presentation 1 Application deadline April 30th Rotellando Learn more http://www.braunprize.org/en/ summer school Watch the talk here BA 2 Design Presentation 2 https://www.ted.com/talks/ Experience dan_ariely_how_equal_do_we_ Empathy want_the_world_to_be_you_d_be_ Design for all BA 3 Degree Project surprised?language=en Interactive exhibition design Follow Us Credits Design thinking design outside the classroom, tractor on the field, to create Remus Technologies: meaningful solutions. Are you a student with an innovative digital business idea? www.facebook.com/uid Thanks for your contributions. Future articles & photos can be sent to: Remus Technologies is an innovation company based in Umeå dedicated to developing inno- [email protected] vative products, services and companies. by Friday evenings. #lifeatuid Between February 20–April 20 we host our annual digital innovation call for students at We love hearing from you! Umeå University. The call involves the opportunity to compete for an innovation summer grant spanning June #lifeatuid to August, which includes SEK 20000 per month to further develop an innovative digital idea Editor Jessica Williams @wozzop or prototype. The innovation grant also includes a possible continuation in the form of a full- Graphic Designer Thuy Nguyen scale development project backed by venture capital. Contributions Johan Grönskog, Maria Göransdotter, Martijn van den Broeck vimeo.com/uid vimeo.com/ixdumea Application deadline April April 20, 2015 Find more information at www.remustechnologies.se vimeo.com/groups/apdumea ©2015 UID The week that was #lifeatuid UID Interview Bilgi Karan: Local Fredrik Ausinsch “Great School, great lecture” http://www.bilgikaran.com/ blog/2015/4/9/great-school-great- @deedeecarlson lecture Inspiring day at fröbytardag with Matthias MFA Transportation Design 1 and Isabel interviewing people exchanging seeds #lifeatuid Yesterday, I was in Umeå Institute of Design If I had any general observations from this work more than selling themselves as poten- for a lecture about UX and ID. I talked about experience, it would be that there is a new tial employees. the relationship between these fi elds and the generation of designers on their way who 10 words or less about yourself The New Black in DESIGN future of design in this context. care deeply about the impact their work I owe a big big thanks to Pernilla Sandberg Car junkie during daytime, superhero during Lets see at the Design Talks! As always, I was very impressed by the might have on this world. So much so that and Marije de Haas for arranging the whole nighttime, that’s why I’m so morning tired. creativity oozing out from every inch of most of the questions posed after the lecture logistics and accommodating my last minute The New Black in RANDOMNESS the school and its students, as well as the were concentrated on how to deal with situ- requests, Thomas Degn for his amazing hos- Something most people don’t know When a Swede has bad news they simply say competence of the staff . I spent almost 3.5 ations that might potentially be unethical or pitality and constant stream of chocolate and about you “ah den är ju sur” meaning “oh that sucks” hours before and after the lecture, reviewing too profi t focused at the expense of the user coff ee appearing on my desk as well as the My last name has nothing to do with Ger- and when you agree, say “ah menar ju det” student portfolios. Amazing work and great or environment. timekeeping, Niklas Andersson for inviting many… now you know… and I use to be it’s like the German “genau” skills all over. The depth of the content and It was delightful also to see that many me over as a speaker and of course, all the pretty good at innebandy (fl oorball). the research, together with the topics cho- students in the portfolio review were more students for making my day. The New Black on the WEB sen, made every minute worthwhile. focused on getting relevant feedback on their An interesting fact from your country Google… type in whatever you want and If you go near the Stockholm archipelago you will fi nd it… awesome stuff ! Your imagi- you might spot a submarine. nation sets the limits. Testing Felix’s HAL9000 The New Black in TV/MOVIES Gold Rush on Discovery… really good! It’s about fi nding the glory hole… where the gold’s at. The New Black in BOOKS/MAGAZINES “Omgiven Av Idioter” (surrounded by idiots) Do you have any interesting websites, mov- honestly really interesting book about diff er- ies, or good reads that you’d like to share @anderselis @merkeloffi cial ent kinds of personalities and human with the rest of the school? Send them to: Wow such Friday!! #lifeatuid The view from my computer screen UMA Pub Deutscher Techno behaviours. [email protected] Article A Startup’s Plans for a New Social Reality AltspaceVR is building virtual hangouts that it hopes you’ll use to watch a movie with friends or play a game of life-size chess. Read article http://www.technologyreview.com/ news/536366/a-startups-plans-for-a- By Rachel Metz new-social-reality/ We know what social networks are like on AltspaceVR is among a growing number of on the phone. “That nonverbal part of com- puter mouse gave me some simple controls fade away and I got used to interacting with video games and films are thought of as the the Web and in apps, but what will they be companies trying to figure out what, exactly, munication is really lost in any other medium (I could inch forward, turn, and select things him this way. main applications for virtual reality, simply like in virtual reality? While Facebook, the we’ll do with these devices when they get other than being together, and that’s some- in virtual space—but couldn’t back up). communicating with others could turn out owner of Oculus VR, is surely pondering here. Facebook, which owns Oculus VR, said thing we feel can be replicated to a great We started out in a bright, sparse, wood- to be important. Communicating via avatars this behind the scenes, a startup called Alt- in March that virtual reality gaming will be extent in virtual reality,” Romo says. paneled room with tidal-wave paintings on could become more effective than by talking spaceVR is already offering a few clues about coming this year, while Philip Rosedale, the That nonverbal part the walls. Once I had figured out navigation via video chat or even face-to-face, he says, how we may connect with each other in a creator of the online virtual world Second So far, AltspaceVR has been testing out its a bit, Wooden took me to several more as software could help us do things like simulated world. Life, is building a virtual-reality universe virtual experience during weekend sessions of communication is spaces, like a Japanese garden-type space tailor our appearances and attentiveness to AltspaceVR is building social virtual environ- called High Fidelity (see “The Quest to Put with groups of users, holding events like a really lost in any other located on the edge of what appeared to be whomever we’re speaking with. To make ments, ranging from a Japanese-style garden More Reality in Virtual Reality”). House of Cardsmarathon night and a Super a calm lake. social interactions really effective in digital to an amphitheater to a dark, sleek lounge.
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