Media Facades provide a great potential as interactive gateway between citizens and buildings. However, architects and designers might not always be able to prototype even early installations of interactive media architecture timely and explore the design opportunities that these systems provide because till today methods and tools in this domain are hardly available and still demand high technical expertise.
We share our design process approach using prototyping tools that help to co-design and pre-test interactive media façade installations in conjunction with potential users in their urban environment. The proposed toolkits allow fast replication and prototyping iterations while involving a broad audience to investigate what type of interface proposal has the potential to be successful.

This Workshop is part of CONNECTING CITIES: URBAN REFLECTIONS within Kuturfestival Wedding-Moabit 2014.

Dates:
Sa, 13.09.2014 – 14:00 bis 17:00 Veranstaltungsort: SUPERMARKT

Participants: 10
Cost: Free
Registration: Please register under contact@connectingcities.net

More information: www.connectingcities.net

Bio:
Dr Alexander Wiethoff (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)is a lecturer and researcher at the Univesity of Munich (LMU). His experience includes activities in commercial human-machine interface design practice, combined with various educational and research activities on media architecture at top-ranked national and international research universities and design schools. In his research work he pursued an interdisciplinary and user-centred approach, and it has led to high-level international publications, as well as a patent and a research award for his previous scientific efforts in the field of design process models for urban media façade development. His professional industrial experience in the areas of interaction design and human-machine interaction has been gained as an employee and freelance consultant, which has included work for fortune 500 clients, such as Intel, Samsung Mobile, Nokia and Siemens Enterprise Networks. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Munich (Ger), an M.A. in Interaction Design from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Milan (I) and a B.A. in space&designstrategies from the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz (A).
Marius Hoggenmüller studied Media Computer Science Univesity of Munich (LMU) and develops of interactive media and light installations and participated in the Luminale-Project in Frankfurt 2014.

Initiated by Public Art Lab and the Connecting Cities Network in cooperation with SUPERMARKT in the framework of Kulturfestival Wedding Moabit, funded by the Culture Programme 2007-13 of the European Union

Photo: ‘Hybrid Screen’ von Markus Hoggenmüller