The UrbanIxD Summer School will be grounded in the emerging discipline of urban interaction design. The Summer School will address the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments, with a particular emphasis on human activities, experiences and behaviours.
Project from the Interaction Design Summer School “Convivio – Communities in Transition” (Split, 2004.). It is a prototype designed with the aim to facilitate communication between the citizens of Split and the local authorities regarding the urban planning.
Project was developed during Interaction Design Workshop 2012: Real Utopias. Expanding on the current popularity of the two TV series based in Split, we created a worst case scenario in which the city, facing economic meltdown, receives an offer from a television network “Good Life Entertainment”, to transform itself into a giant interactive TV and on-line programme as a means of saving the inhabitants from poverty and unemployment.
Split is the economic and administrative center of Middle Dalmatia, with about 200,000 inhabitants. It is also the jumping-off point for exploration of the coast and islands of the beautiful Croatian Adriatic. The site was first settled when, at the end of the third century AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian built his palace here.
Since 2001 he has been working on promoting and introducing the Interaction Design in Croatia and region. The activities concerning the promotion of the interaction design include a series of workshops and they resulted in the organization of the International Symposium at the Arts Academy in Split in 2009.
The UrbanIxD project Summer School is to take place in the beautiful and historic town of Split in Croatia. This will be an interdisciplinary, workshop style event.