Talk: Martin Kaltenbrunner – Tangible Music, 8. Dezember 2014
Talk: Jürgen Steimle – Digital Fabrication of Interactive Objects and Surfaces, 19. November 2014
Talk: Caroline Hummels – Design for Embodiment and Skilful Coping, 3. November 2014
The Bauhausinteraction Colloquium enters its second round.
The series of talks for the winter semester 2014/15 will be opened by Caroline Hummels from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Good Medicine Tastes Bitter – A Graduation Project by Xinyu Weng
“Good medicine tastes bitter.” said Confucius.
Although its taste is not so pleasant, at least it cures the disease.
What’s more, it keeps us awake.
Do products always have to satisfy the users? How can products that purposely made not so useful affect our perception and understanding of it? How can designers deliver ideas through products? In this project, I try to create a series of products that are not so useful but have good intentioned messages inside, as to explore the purpose and future of product design.
Xinyu Weng
Good Medicine Tastes Bitter
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Bachelor Thesis
Product Design / Interaction Design / Speculative Design
Summer 2014
Supervised by Prof. Wolfgang Sattler and Kristian Gohlke
More pictures after the break or on the project website.
Update: Wired article about the project.
Talk: Marc Hassenzahl – Complicated Pleasures: Designing Meaningful Moments, 25. Juni 2014
Our TinkerBots are growing up…
Beyond several rounds of seed funding, the successful aqcuisition of venture capital and a growing number of employees and patents, our alumi from the product-design programme are also doing a great job at getting crowdfunding for the first production run of TinkerBots.
Six days before the end their campain has reached 265% of the requested funding and is still running strong. As of now, this sums up to 260,000+ $. Congratulations!
Be among the first to get a set of TinkerBots!
This is the story behind the project:
Update:
The crowdfunding campaign has finished and raised a total of 290,505 $ Thanks to everyone who supported the project!
Talk: Norbert Schnell – Playing (with) Sound, 2. Juni 2014
MidiHack 2014 – LegoTechno
We presented a step sequencer made in less than 24 hours from Lego bricks, some code and NI Maschine at the MidiHack 2014 together with the guys from Native Instruments.
A quick video of the presentation at the Spotify HQ in Stockholm:
