As a part of the media facade project CAVI has, in collaboration with Center for Digital Urban Living, developed and implemented a design for the media facade of the Danish Pavilion at the EXPO 2010 exhibition in Shanghai. The acclaimed pavilion can be experienced during summer 2010. The design strategy was developed in collaboration with the architect group BIG and the light company Martin Professional.

Tags: architecture | cases | expo | media facades | shanghai

As part of the Ubicomp2010 conference taking place in Copenhagen 26-29 Sept, members of DUL are co-organising the workshop "Designing for Performative Interactions in Public Spaces".

Deadline for application to participate is approaching fast, read more on the workshop website.

Building on the assumption that every human action in public space has a performative aspect, this workshop seeks to explore issues of mobile technology and interactions in public settings. We will examine the design of performative technologies, the evaluation of user experience, the importance of spectator and performer roles, and the social acceptability of performative actions in public spaces.

Tags: digital aesthetics | events | performance | urbanity | workshop

Invited Talk: Professor Elisa Giaccardi, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
June 14, 2010 kl.13.00 – 14.30
IT-Parken Katrinebjerg, Wiener-bygningen, lok 026

Heritage matters are starting to emerge as an important domain for interaction design. Yet we are often stuck with traditional museological frameworks, failing to understand the nature of heritage as cultural process. In this talk I will argue that the means of heritage engagement and production are built not only in space (e.g., the museum exhibition, the heritage site or the natural environment) but also—naturally—over time, where the past can be projected in the present and in the future.

Tags: cultural heritage | people | talk

Students from the Digital Design study progam present and demo their non-traditional interpretations of the theme "hyperlocal media". They combine digital aesthetics and interaction design to create innovative solutions to cultural challenges and urban environments.

Check out the project web presentations (mostly in Danish, but there are videos and images).

• Comic Sense (by iOTA)
• StreetBlok (by Boxheads)
• BonusInfoMotion (by DIGG:iT)
• Shout&Explore (by kröllalfa)
• Anthem of the Silent (by Digital Dummies)
• Democratic Art Exposure (by UPTODATO)
• HAVNscape (by Sømænd på Sengekanten)
• Vita Infinitiva (by Press Play)
• Flyvende fortællinger (by Sten. Saks. Papir.)

Tags: civic communication | digital aesthetics | exhibition | media facades | student projects

Geoff Cox, post.doc at Digital Urban Living and Department for Information and Media Studies, is speaking at 3 upcoming cenferences:

• PARADE - public modes of assembly
• Dematerial - critical debates in digital arts
• Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency

Geoff Cox is part of the Digital Urban project:  Digital Art.

Tags: civic communication | people | presentation

Due to the ash- and eruption related cancellation of the three-day seminar “Interweaving Technologies – the Aesthetics of Digital Urban Living”, you are hereby cordially invited to the mini-seminar “Aesthetic eruptions of the digital”.

KaserneScenen, Aarhus University // 9.30 // Thursday 22 April 2010

This will be a minor seminar of 3-4 hours where we will take our departure in the already prepared presentations by the presenters from the Aarhus area. Additionally, we will have two of the workshops originally intended for the cancelled conference, as Martin Howse and Gordan Savicic will be joining us.

INTERWEAVING TECHNOLOGIES - THE AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL URBAN LIVING

/ / / THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE TRANSPORT PROBLEMS FOLLOWING THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN ICELAND / / /

The urban environment is increasingly formed by the development of digital and mobile media. Although these new technologies are generic in structure, they shape the environment differently, based on the context and site in which they are interwoven.

Latest information, programme etc.: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=450

Tags: aarhus | conference | digital aesthetics | events | interface aesthetics