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![Niels Wouters works in the realm of new digital media and interaction design, as a PhD student in the research group Research [x] Design (Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning at University of Leuven, Belgium) on the topic of sociability in media architecture.](http://www.urbanixdsummerschool.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/trakica2.png "Niels Wouters")
Niels Wouters
Niels Wouters works in the realm of new digital media and interaction design, as a PhD student in the research group Research [x] Design (Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning at University of Leuven, Belgium) on the topic of sociability in media architecture.
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Mads Hobye
PhD student in interaction design at the Medea Collaborative Media Initiative, Malmö University, Sweden. Co-founder of the Illutron Collaborative Interactive Art Studio.
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Andreas Förster
Andreas Förster is an information & interaction designer, based in Graz, Austria. As a designer, he feels a strong responsibility for making our (increasingly urban) life more livable.
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Søren Rosenbak
With a background in filmmaking and a year of his Masters degree spent abroad in the New Media department at Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Søren’s interests lie within the critical design tradition, exploring and bettering the future through speculation and action.
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Bronwyn Cumbo
Bronwyn is fascinated by the connection between people and the natural world in urban environments: The factors that drive the perception and value urban inhabitants place on the natural environment, and how this perception is linked to health and well-being.
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Sergio Galán Nieto
Interaction designer with good skills in all kind of digital crafts. Works as a researcher and cultural mediator at Medialab-prado (Madrid). Develops personal and commercial interaction design projects as an independent consultant.
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Sjors Timmer
Freelance Interaction Designer interested in the urban interaction design. He is actively involved in the London design community, where he co-organises UXcamp London and organized UXDO, a series of practical workshops for designers.
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Andreas Streinzer
My journey with anthropology began in 2003, when I started studying social and cultural anthropology in Vienna. In 2004, I started working for international NGOs in designing internal and external communications as well as tapping into social service design.
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Assunta Matassa
Using the knowledge related to the field of Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing, he focused his attention on the hardware prototyping for developing new devices that can enhance the user experience of citizens in urban spaces, providing them with innovative tools and promoting a seamless communication and interaction through different environments.
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Sandy Claes
Sandy combines her artistic work with an academic career. Since 2009 she teaches Audio-Visual Design to students in Interaction Design and was also involved in several design research projects, on the topic of serious games, multitouch interfaces, public participation and information visualization.
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Rachid Belkouch
He’s a Phd student in cognitive informatics, a multidisciplinary program bridging information technology and cognitive science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under the supervision of prof. Pierre Poirier (Cognitive Sciences Institute director). He’s also a lecturer in information technology and knowledge management, and an information technology professional.
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Louise Jensen Germany
He studies “Digital design and communication” at the It-university of Copenhagen, which focus on the aesthetics of user experiences and innovative concept development. Through his bachelor in “Digital media and design”, he has designed various playful urban projects that focus on how locals can connect and change behavior in urban space caused by a digital design.
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Laura Boffi Denmark
Interaction and service designer. She is interested in researching how people create their own culture around the context in which they inhabit and the objects they use, often by appropriating in a spontaneous and meaningful way the material and technology artifacts they are surrounded by.
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Sara Adhitya
Architect and Urban designer from Perth, Western Australia. With the intention to harness the temporal medium of sound in order to represent spatio-temporal urban relationships, the result is a ‘Sonified Urban Masterplan’ tool for both ‘listening’ to urban rhythms as well as designing them in space and time.
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Isil Ruhi-Sipahioğlu
Her Master thesis focused on organic approaches to architectural design processes especially in the computational design processes. She has recently completed her PhD thesis entitled “The Implications of Building Environmental Assessment Tools within the Building Practice in Turkey”. Her research interest includes sustainability in architecture, computational design, and organic approach in architectural design processes.
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Jona Dajçi
In cooperation with other fellow students she founded the Forum of Young Architects, an interactive space where students from every architecture school in Albania could exchange opinions, information and experiences.
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Joatan Preis Dutra
PhD candidate in Media, at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, located at the Chair of Interface Design, with the research project: “Cultural Heritage on Mobile Devices: an analysis about the collaborative relations and dynamics between the content promoters and users”. He has experience in Design and Media, with emphasis on interaction about mobile media and urban spaces, focused in the following areas: Interface Design, Mobile Media, Urban Media, Mass and Culture Media, GUI, and HCI.
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Peter Kun
His background is in industrial engineering and management, where he focused on product ergonomics, and organizational development; the latter made him work as a trainer-facilitator in youth NGOs, and recently as a professional. Along his education he has experimented with building novel musical interfaces, and this also connects to his main passion: music.
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Daria Casciani
Designer and researcher. As a PhD student at the Politecnico di Milano, she is conducting a research about people’s experience of the night-time of their cities. In particular, her research is about the new possibilities of lighting design with new technologies in the creation of more personal, social and experiential nocturnal cities.
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Caitlin Cockerton
Passionate about innovation and improving the human experience of products, services and design. She champions a user-centred approach and has worked in medical, tech and future cities fields.
UrbanIxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City is a Coordination Action project funded by the European Commission under FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET Open). 2013 – 2014 Project Number: 323687
