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Nickelodeon begins a web site focusing on interactive play [The New York Times]
“Nickelodeon, the popular children’s cable network, is pushing hard into the online world with Nicktropolis.com, a new Web site that will let its young users enter their own world of Internet...
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Study on use of tagging released
A December 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (a US-based foundation) has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news...
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In Turin, design becomes supreme [La Repubblica]
Next year, Turin will be World Design Capital. Yesterday, the event was officially presented. Below is (my) translation of an article/interview, written by Marina Paglieri and published today in La...
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Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred...
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Today is International Slow Day
Today is International Slow Day or Slowness Day. I have no idea what the English version of the day is because, despite the eagerness of Italian newspapers (see here and here) to promote the...
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Business Week on the innovation workshops at the Royal College of Arts, London
“It’s become quite common for companies to sponsor some kind of design-school course, setting the theme or challenge for a semester-long student project and then learning from the final presentations....
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MBA in Design and Innovation Management
Europe was first in starting graduate programmes on design and management, first with the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Germany and later on with the 180º Academy in Denmark. Now also...
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Designing bosses get results [Financial Post, Canada]
Last year, Lance Carlson, president of the Alberta College of Art and Design, set up the Institute for the Creative Process and, for the first time, forayed into research on how to apply the design...
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Living Labs conference in Belgium
This week Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken was in Belgium to attend a conference where a Living Lab project in the cities of Hasselt and Leuven was presented. “Living Labs” is a new concept for...
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Experientia interviews Paola Zini, director of Torino 2008 World Design Capital
Core77, the online design magazine, published today an interview with Paola Zini, the director of Torino 2008 World Design Capital, conducted by Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken. The interview is...
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Social-networking sites have business uses too [The Economist]
The most avid users of social-networking websites may be exhibitionist teenagers, but when it comes to more grown-up use by business people, such sites have a surprisingly long pedigree, writes The...
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Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article)...
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New Core77 article series more sophisticated than ever
The Core77 “Reactor” article series is becoming increasingly sophisticated and more and more relevant to the experience design discourse that this blog addresses as well. Check out the latest articles...
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Event highlights of Torino 2008 World Design Capital
Torino 2008 World Design Capital just published short summaries of its event highlights (unfortunately below the fold – so they are easy to miss). They include the Geodesign and Flexibility...
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Bruno Giussani on how free talk services lead to surprising user creativity
Bruno Giussani reports in his Business Week column on how some users of Skype and other free Internet services are exploiting the technology in creative and unconventional ways. Give people unlimited...
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Publicly funded culture and the creative industries
Today the UK think tank Demos posted a short publication (32 pages + footnotes), entitled “Publicly funded culture and the creative industries“. Abstract The relationships between publicly funded...
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Web special on factors that make a city great
A large chunk of the latest issue of Monocle magazine on the 20 most liveable cities in the world is freely available via the International Herald Tribune. All the content is linked from the...
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Promoting user-centred design innovation in Ireland
The Centre for Design Innovation, which is funded by Enterprise Ireland, an agency of Ireland’s Department for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, aims to research and promote design thinking as a means...
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‘Game School’ aims to engage and educate
Soon New York City will be home to a new 6-12th grade public school that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st century skills and literacies. Opening in fall 2009, the...
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Share Award: digital art prize 2008 competition announcement
Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art. The competition jury, chaired by Bruce Sterling, will award a prize of 2,500 Euro to the work (published...
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