30/09/2008 06:04 PM
Dr Stefan Meisiek presents - Pedagogy of Organisational Design (Wed 1 Oct 3.30-4.30pm)

• When: Wednesday 1st October, 3:30pm to 4:30pm


• Where: Lecture Theatre (PA 309), Swinburne Design, 144 High Street, Prahran VIC


• RSVP: To Silvana Ferlazzo, Research Administrator, silvanaferlazzo@swin.edu.au

Dr Stefan Meisiek is Assistant Professor at Nova University in Lisbon. He has worked extensively in the arts and business field and is editing a Guide to Organizational Theatre, as well as researching artful approaches to entrepreneurship and innovation ... for example, Stefan initiated a research project to analyse the impact of Organisational Theatre amongst home care workers in a Danish municipality.

 

 

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16/09/2008 03:40 PM
Professor Per Molluerup presents - Simplicity in Design (Thurs 18 Sept 12-1.30pm)

• When: Thursday 18 September, 12 noon to 1.30pm
  
• Where: Level 3, Lecture Theature (PA 309), Swinburne Faculty of Design, 144 High Street, Prahran VIC.
  
• RSVP: To Silvana Ferlazzo, Research Administrator, silvanaferlazzo@swin.edu.au

About the speaker: Professor Per Mollerup

• Professor Per Mollerup is Director of Designlab in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also Professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a prolific author on branding and visual communication.
  
• Mollerup is an expert in design policy, and he is internationally recognised as design policy advisor to the governments of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  
• Per Mollerup's books include Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks, the global best-seller on brands based on his doctoral research. He has now written Wayshowing: A Guide to Environmental Signage Principles and Practices, the new, research-based study on how designers use wayshowing to help others find their way.
  
• Designlab website: http://www.designlab.dk/ 

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08/09/2008 12:00 AM
Dr Genevieve Bell presents - Uneven Coverage: Contextualizing Information & Communication Technologies

• When: Friday, 12 September, 12:30 - 2pm


• Where: Faculty of Design, Prahran Campus, Lecture Theatre (PA309)
  
• RSVP: Silvana Ferlazzo, Research Administrator, silvanaferlazzo@swin.edu.au

Dr Genevieve Bell, will discuss how 150 years worth of information, communication and entertainment technologies have re-mapped the world and transormed ideas, practices and social institutions.

Bell argues that within the current landscape of pervasive technologies, people still wnat distinct and distinctive identities. Identy remains a powerful part of being numan, and is profoundly tied up with borders, boundaries and divisions.

About the speaker: An internationally recognized cultural anthropologist, Dr Bell has been central to Intel's move towards more consumer-centric product and technology development. She is the Director of Intel's first User Experience Group, which blends anthropological methods and human-factors engineering to help drive innovation within Intel's Digital Home Group. Intel's recently announced consumer electronics "Widget Channel" was driven out of Dr Bell's team.

Her work has been widely published and cited and she is active in the fields of anthropology, computer-human interaction and ubiquitous computing. She is credited with making non-US cultural practices a necessary part of discussions around technological futures and is a much sought-after commentator and speaker in forums, conferences and the press worldwide.

Raised in Australia, Dr Bell received her BA and Master's at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in anthropology at Stanford.

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06/08/2008 08:05 PM
Water conservation game makes ATOM awards finals

Mission H2o, an online game developed by Swinburne students and staff has been judged a finalist in the 2008 Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards

The game, which is themed around water conservation, has made the finals in three separate categories of the awards: Best Multimedia; Best Tertiary Multimedia and Best Multimedia Learning Resource.

Created in the style of a pop-up book, Mission H2o teaches players how to optimise water usage in the home. It is the result of a collaboration between Swinburne's multimedia design department and non-profit organisation, the savewater!® Alliance.

It features the Wilson family - Barry Buckets, Barbara Bubbles, Chelsea Sprinkles, Johnny Hydro and Nana Flo - who guide players through eight sub-games contained within various parts of their home.

Players can test their knowledge about water conservation through quizzes and other interactive games. With each leak that is plugged and each tub of bath water that is recycled, your score increases.

The game is the work of 80 third year students and five lecturers from the university's multimedia design program, and represents more than 18,000 hours of research and development. "There are other games in the market that try to teach players different things however I haven't seen anything like this in the water conservation area. It's great for the target age group to interact and play with," said Swinburne multimedia design lecturer James Marshall.

The ATOM Awards were established in 1982 by the Australian Teachers of Media association - an independent, non-profit group that promotes media education and screen literacy. They recognise excellence in Australian and New Zealand film, television, animation and multimedia.

Mission H2o's nomination is the latest in a string of successes for the game, including recognition as an Official Honoree in the 12th Annual Webby Awards and winning a 2008 Premier's Design Award.

The 2008 ATOM Award winners will be announced at a ceremony on Friday 24 October at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne.

Mission H2o can be accessed at www.missionh2o.com.au

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29/07/2008 05:11 AM
Pen to Pixel: 100 years of design education at Swinburne

The outstanding work of Swinburne alumni from the earliest years when design and art training were provided is featured in an exhibition at Chapel off Chapel.

Swinburne design historian Nanette Carter has curated the exhibition and has commissioned other leading design historians to contribute new research on successful Australian and international designers.

“The exhibition brings together a diverse range of individuals and practices focusing on a series of successful designers, media practitioners and design studios established by Swinburne graduates,” Carter said.

“Through their achievements, changes in Australian culture, society and economy can be charted along with the rise of new design professions and new media disciplines.”

Featured Swinburne alumni include:
Ellison Harvie, the first woman senior architect of a major architectural practice in Australia and the first woman associate of the RAIA, who helped design and supervise the construction of the five multi-storey blocks of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Graphic designer Joseph Greenberg, whose highly visible and innovative work included surrealist-inspired covers for Australian Home Beautiful magazine and a brilliant optimistic poster for the Australian Government that attracted Europeans to emigrate to Australia in the immediate post war period.

Internationally acclaimed film director Gillian Armstrong, whose recent work includes an innovative documentary Unfolding Florence, about textile designer and businesswoman Florence Broadhearst, and Death Defying Acts, a critically acclaimed story of the supernatural inspired by the character of Harry Houdini. ArmstrongÂ’s impeccably crafted films engage both critics and popular audiences with the notable performances of their strong lead characters and compelling visual design.

Super Action Go Team is a multimedia studio comprising three young designers whose multidisciplinary skills and inventive digital design has brought them a range of major corporate clients within Australia and international commissions.

A publication to accompany the exhibition documents the changing face of education in design, media and art over the past century.

The exhibition will be held in association with the Melbourne International Design Festival.

Event: Pen to Pixel exhibition
When: 10am to 5pm 17 July-3 August 2008
Where: Mezzanine Gallery, Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran

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