InfoD: Information Design Summer Academy: Travelling the City. July 8th to July 27th 2002

   * Information Design Summer Academy: Travelling the City *          
     July 8th to July 27th 2002   (IIID University Project)


TASK:
Investigating, evaluating and re-designing conventional and 
digital information for visitors to a city like Vienna who move 
around on foot or by using public means of transport or taxi. 
Special attention is paid to content enriching a city experience 
with regard to its history, presence and future.

DATES:
July 8th - July 27th 2002.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE:
Verbal, pictorial and possibly also sound communication must be 
optimized to make information meet user requirements. To involve 
the users and to make them partners in the communication process 
interaction is to be facilitated as well. The Summer Academy 
therefore expects participants to have qualifications in one or 
several of the following fields:
- visual and/or sound design; 
- professional writing; 
- computer sciences; 
- cognitive psychology.


FACULTY:
- Prof. Robert O. Swinehart (Director)
  (School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
- Veronika Schreyer (Assistant) (is design, Wien/Vienna).

VISITING EXPERTS:
- Stefan Nowak + Petra Knyrim, nowakteufelknyrim Duesseldorf,
  Germany (Winners of the Prime Minister's Prize 2001, Japan 
  Design Foundation).
- Ass. Prof. Andreas Schneider, Institute for Advanced Media Art
  and Sciences, Gifu, Japan.
- Prof. Erik Spiekermann, Information designer and type designer, 
  Berlin, London, San Francisco.
- Angela Winkler + Martin Foessleitner, High-Performance GmbH,
  Wien/Vienna.


VENUE:
Fashion Institute Vienna, Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna.

ACCOMMODATION:
A number of rooms have been reserved at a student hostel 
at the "Gasometer" on a first come, first serve basis.


ORGANIZERS:
International Institute for Information Design 
in co-operation with the School of Design of 
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

CO-ORGANIZERS:
- OCG Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft/Austrian Computer   
  Society, 
- VIW e-Business Austria,
- INFOTERM International Information Centre for Terminology.

PATRONAGE:
- Grete Laska, Vice-Mayor and Vice-Governor, Executive Councillor
  for Education, Youth, Social Affairs, Information and Sports 
  of the City of Vienna.

SPONSORS:
- Stadt Wien / City of Vienna,  
- Wiener Tourismusverband / Vienna Tourist Board,  
- Schloss Schoenbrunn GmbH,  
- Wiener Linien / Vienna Transport Corporation,  
- Forster Verkehrs- und Werbetechnik GmbH.


PARTICIPATION FEE:
EUR 1095 (approx. USD 980). Scholarships covering up to 66% of
the participation fee will be available for qualified students.
Admission requirements: a portfolio, a resume or vita and 
a short statement of intent (1/2) page.

Maximum number of participants: 20.

Registration closes on 31st May 2002.

IIID - International Institute for Information Design
Joergerstrasse 22/2
att. Peter Simlinger, Director
A-1170 Wien
Tel: +43 1 403 6662
Fax: +43 1 408 8347
email: [email protected]

Further and more detailed information to all points: 
http://www.iiid.net/SummerAcademy/Start.htm


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