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Here are some pictures of the first Swaposium: Pittsburgh and Dundee, Masters Communication & Interaction design meets Design Ethnography and Masters of Design. A heady mix.

We tried it with 2 groups in two different time zones, and they seem to want more. We now have a list of schools they want to speak to, and a successful pilot under our belt. So we will be doing more. If you would like to hear more, or join in, please let us know.

Feedback was really useful, and we are looking to do a lot more in the New Year! Hot on our list to speak with are IIT Chicago, ITP New York, CMU HCII, Stanford D School, Asian Design School, RCA London, Domus, Potsdam IXD, TU Delft, Copenhagen IXD, Hongik Uni Korea.

And a slideshow here if you prefer!

 

 

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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:16:00 -0700 Thank you to the guinea pigs/extreme user piloteers! http://swaposium.posterous.com/thank-you-to-the-guinea-pigsextreme-user-pilo http://swaposium.posterous.com/thank-you-to-the-guinea-pigsextreme-user-pilo

A huge thanks to all of you who joined us today in Dundee and Pittsburgh!

That was a fastinating first run, and we'd love to do it again.

We did a feedback for for all of the guys here, and they really enjoyed the questions and the chance to think about them together. I'm not so sure everyone gets the chance to talk about what they see is their way of doing and thinking about things, so these reflections were new and valuable.

I think starting with food is a better way - too disruptive at our end I think.

We have some nice films of people from your end answering the questions, and will post these too.

 

And I would love to hear your thoughts...!

Gill

 

 

 

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Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:48:00 -0700 First questions.... http://swaposium.posterous.com/first-questions http://swaposium.posterous.com/first-questions

What would be the first question we would ask to our other group? Do you have a suggestion? Serious, or profound? Theoretical or applied? What would you like to hear about their point of view?

Please add your question here, and tell us the questions you like.

 

Gill

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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:10:00 -0700 First Pliot booked http://swaposium.posterous.com/first-pliot-booked http://swaposium.posterous.com/first-pliot-booked

I am asking grad students at CMU school of Design to help me pilot an idea for an exchange between Masters of Design students across the world. With the MDes students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, we are good to go for our first session.

We will be in MM 121 on 11th October at 11.45 sharp where we will pose questions and answer questions with this group of students from the UK who are also trying to make sense of what it means to be a designer today.

In just one hour, we will exchange questions and responses, and see what happens.
We can decide what we want to do with it next.

And in exchange I will bring some tasty lunch, and some drinks. And will post what happens!

Here is the invite....

PilotInvite.pdf Download this file

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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:52:00 -0700 Starting up a swaposium http://swaposium.posterous.com/starting-up-a-swaposium http://swaposium.posterous.com/starting-up-a-swaposium

Our first swaposium will be with students in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland.

Here's a place to share questions and all kinds of things.

And remember please post evidence of how it works, and any thoughts you have on how to make it work well.

 

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