Inter-Action Design is an introduction into the interaction design, its history, concepts and future perspectives, from user-centred to life-centred design. We will discuss a specific IAD approach grounded on the notion of Inter-Action Design, discussing the basis of relational and activity-based thinking and making.
Coop Himmelb(l)au in Basel, 1971
We will start our journey in a manner of alchemic wondering about the world. We will dissolve (Solve) and Coagulate our bodily experiences to stimulate first thoughts on the role of design, human and technology.
How will we might become a designer and what do we face in the university as well as the outside world? Therefore, we will investigate in designing within room and space - discussing about our local surroundings and global interdependencies. We will dive through different episodes of becoming an Interaction Designs – adequate to the stages of becoming in Alchemist – with all the expectations, experiences we learn, and reflections and actions on it. This seminar should give a fundamental base for the upcoming semesters interweaving theory and practice into discourse.