Re: IVREA

Ivrea has been taken over by the Domus Institute in Milan and turned into
its Interaction Design program there. Many of the faculty have remained on.
So from what I can tell things are pretty OK, and only the altitude has
changed. ;) (yes that is a hyperbole).

But in general the european community has shown a strong commitment to IxD.
there are more IxD programs in Europe than in the US by far. (I'm not
including HCI and InfoSys programs as being equal to a design school IxD
program). Italy, Holland, Sweden, UK, and others all have universities or
design schools with strong IxD components. Most of these programs are NOT
tied to a single corporate sponsor the way that Ivrea was, which I believe
is a longer term and more sustainable arrangement. In the US CMU still
remains the main program setting the standard for IxD, but Savannah, ID/IIT,
and RISD to name a few are also picking up the charge.

I also wouldn't want to dismiss the host of Industrial Design programs that
are starting to include IxD as a main part of their cirriculum. This seems
to be the strong tendency within the E. Asian and S. Asian educationality
community.

-- dave

On 2/18/06, Bob Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>  A colleague told me that Olivetti has withdrawn its support for
> Interaction
> Design Institute-IVREA.  Is this true?  If so, what are the consequences
> for
> IVREA and the implications for our field?
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