Yale symposium on experience design and architecture from a critical perspective
Former Interaction-Ivrea colleague Molly Wright Steenson asked me to alert my readers about this Yale symposium on experience design and architecture. Of course I gladly comply out of affection for Molly and because worked in both fields (I actually worked full time in a New York architecture firm for three years, handling their business development).
Market of Effects Symposium
From “Imagineers” to “Futurologists”, from ethnographic research to product branding, architectural designers are evermore concerned with the production of entertaining, interactive, and variable experiences through spatial, surface and material effects. These trends parallel last decade’s identification of the “Experience Economy” and its materialization in the fields of “experience design” and “experience architecture.” Formulated in the late 90s, this economic model is characterized by a progression away from subsistence commodities to a service-based economy, resulting in the trade of service experiences appealing to consumers’ emotions and feelings. Through the thematizing of user needs and the theatrical presentation of the currencies of memory, image, sensorial satisfaction and mass-customization, architecture has responded to market forces with projects that merge technology, narrative and dynamic effects in the built environment.
“The Market of Effects” will serve as a critical forum in which to explore the history, articulation and future of the experience economy in relation to architectural and urban design. The symposium solicits proposals that examine or critique designs that combine interactive and variable effects, the engagement with extra-visual sensation, the layering of data, and the appeal to individual taste and identity to construct a personalized point of sale via the built environment.
Full programme and registration information
(I just hope that Molly will post something online afterwards, like presentations, audio or video, so we can all share in the fun.)
Yes please do! This sounds like a great theme, but Yale is a long way…
Adam
experiencedesign.de
[…] Il Yale symposium realizzerà il forum Market of Effects volto all’approfondimento della storia, dell’articolazione e delle prospettive di evoluzione dell’experience economy in relazione al design di architettura e di sviluppo urbano. Verranno sollecitate proposte in merito alla combinazione di vari fattori, quali gli effetti d’interazione, le sensazioni extra-visuali, la stratificazione dei dati, e l’appealing della personalizzazione del punto vendita. […]
[…] Il Yale symposium realizzerà il forum Market of Effects volto all’approfondimento della storia, dell’articolazione e delle prospettive di evoluzione dell’experience economy in relazione al design di architettura e di sviluppo urbano. Verranno sollecitate proposte in merito alla combinazione di vari fattori, quali gli effetti d’interazione, le sensazioni extra-visuali, la stratificazione dei dati, e l’appealing della personalizzazione del punto vendita. […]