Category Public services
MacArthur launches $50 million digital media and learning initiative
Designing a zero impact trade fair
More on IDEO: now redesigning a law school
Fabrica at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Established in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is a communications research centre whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the…
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
Denmark’s largest companies launch user-driven innovation academy
Futurelab on learning, social software and games
Healthcare facilities that invite
Belgian experience design lab getting off the ground
One of the exciting initiaves within the Belgian C-Mine project is a new Experience Design Lab within the Media & Design Academy, a platform with the double function of integrating and transforming the various disciplines of the academy, and enabling…
Living Labs Europe – user-driven innovation environments in the information society
A Living Lab is a city area which operates a full-scale urban laboratory and proving ground for inventing, prototyping and marketing new mobile technology applications. A Living Lab includes interactive testing, but is managed as an innovation environment well beyond…
Library 2.0 [Library Journal]
EU working towards eco-innovation for a sustainable future
The EU’s eUSER project
Microsoft opening major research centre in Turin, Italy?
Two new thematic Experientia blogs
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, launches today two new thematic blogs: E-Democracy is aimed at public authorities. It gathers information on citizen participation and the use of web 2.0 technologies in the websites of public authorities, public administrations and…
Turbo-charging e-government
The Serious Games Initiativew
Participatory design – and why it’s more than user-centred-design
In a reflective article written as a follow-up to the Participatory Design conference held a few weeks ago in Trento, Italy, Ann Light dissects the difference between participatory design (PD) and user-centred design (UCD). “What is the status of the…