Festival of Science
For the first time at the Festival of Science of Genoa
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea presents within the Space Telecom, four interactive Projects that promote a vision of communication in today’s digital world. During the week, Interaction-Ivrea will also present four learning and fun Workshops for kids ranging from 11 to 14 years old. In true accordance with the general spirit of the activities promoted by Progetto Italia, the Workshops will be accessible to the public. Participants will be able to immerge themselves in new technologies, discovering the pleasure of learning by doing. The Workshops will deliberately employ a low tech approach and will be based around the theme of comunication. Starting from a simple activity like drawing their own portrait, the kids will be confronted with different technologies; from the pencil to the computer (passing through a whole series of different tools).
Projects list and credits:
Physical Pixels
Children will create self-portraits using physical pixels, working within color and shape constrains. Simple pixel animations will be made.In this station children will explore the representation of visual information in abstract and economic ways and the formal properties of the pixel world.
Camera Obscura
Children will create each others’ portraits with the help of the magical Camera Obscura. In this station kids will explore the basics of photographic technology and the relationship between produced and reproduced visual representations.
Cubic Colors
Children will create their own portraits using primal colors and stamps, combining hand craft with computer work. In this station kids will explore the physical and digital representations of color and the relationship between color and identity.
The portrait dialogue
Children will draw each others portraits through visual communication between separated spaces, engaging in a remote creative dialogue.In this station they will experience remote communication in a different form, exploring the possibilities and difficulties of distance.
Workshop Tables
A modular system in Plexiglass and MDF that caters for the multiple needs of the children’s Workshops, Different versions of tables can at times hold containers for pencils, printing paper and the different analogic and digital machinery.
Project by Stefano Testa
La Mia 500 - The compact car with a digital soul
An interactive Fiat 500 car that while filling up on fuel can download mp3 files, answer text messages and has rear windows on which you can write emails or text messages to be posted on the web.
Project by: Natasha Sopieva (Turkmenistan) and David Slocombe (United Kingdom)
Not so White Walls
An interactive wallpaper through which the walls of our homes can become a multimedia display. Text messages, low-resolution images, weather forecasts and even line drawings, are just some of the images that can enter our homes via the computer.
Project by: Dario Buzzini (Italy)
Ninja TV - Fightsuit
TV sets are gradually becoming obsolete, and being substituted by wall projectors. New interactive ways are sidelining traditional functions. While once we were happy just watching TV, now we play with it, we fight with it and even exercise with it.
Project by: Søren Pors (Denmark) and Yaniv Steiner (Israel)
Suitcase!
The Portable Museum, an interactive presentation of the Institute’s activities. Thanks to RF Tag technology, visitors can activate 25 different videos via specific coins on the tables. Once again we employ the Ciccio structure (Curiously Inflated Computer Controlled Interactive Object).
Project by: Daniele Mancini (Italy)
