GRADUATE CERTIFICATEINTERACTION DESIGN AND ELECTRONIC ARTS

FACULTY OFARCHITECTUREDESIGN & PLANNING

URBAN INFORMATICS

Introduction: DR LIAN LOKE Director, Interaction Design + Electronic Arts Program

The IDEA program trains you to push the boundaries of contemporary design practice, through its unique blend of design thinking, human-computer interaction and emergent technologies.

A studio-based teaching environment challenges you to critically engage with the human experience of a computationally enhanced world and to collaborate in creating innovative design solutions exploring new interactive forms and expressions.

You will work closely with leading researchers to embed computational possibilities into our physical world - blending the digital and the real. Graduates of this program are equipped with strategies and tools for designing and building creative applications of technology that have the potential to transform and shape the world.

Cover Illustration, Rune Nielsen, Kollision, 2013

DESIGNING THE DIGITAL CITY

URBAN INFORMATICS: DESIGNING THE DIGITAL CITYA 13 week Graduate Certificate course on how to design and prototype city apps

Today 3.6 billion people live in cities, making up 52% of the world’s entire population. It is expected that the urban population will almost double by the middle of the 21st century. Already, our cities are struggling to cope with increased demand loads on existing services and infrastructures, such as public transport, waste management and energy supply.

The contemporary city is likely to become the next operating platform for digital applications. As designers we need to start thinking about scaleable, sustainable solutions now, not in 10 years time. The approach that this course takes is therefore heavily grounded in cutting edge research on urban informatics and human-computer interaction design.

In this Graduate Certificate 24 unit level program, you will be immersed in a range of design challenges and working on real briefs posed by the city you live in. Through three carefully aligned units you will learn about tools and techniques that will be essential knowledge for interaction designers of the future.

The future of interaction design will be about solving large, complex problems – by understanding the big relationships, while not losing track of the small things that matter.

As Charles Eames said, in the end “The details are not the details. They make the design.”

IDEA Studio 1Designing the Digital City

IDEA9102, 12 point core unit

This unit will explore new interaction possibilities offered by emerging digital technologies in a vibrant design studio environment. The studio will develop your conceptual design abilities and technical skills, within the framework of a highly creative, research-based and human-centred design process. Students will collaborate on real design briefs to develop prototypes for urban experiences through websites, mobile apps, wearable devices, or urban screens, supported by a range of experts and involving direct consultation with end users and other stakeholders.

Lecturers:Dr Martin Tomitsch (Design Lab) Prof Peter Phibbs (Urban Planning)

With guest lectures by: Dr Sarah Barns (Arup) A/Prof Marcus Foth (QUT)

Course dates:Semester 1, March 2014Fridays, 10-1 & 2-5

IDEA Lab 1 Urban Prototyping

IDEA9101, 6 point core unit

This unit will cover the key technical skills required for prototyping and building interactive digital media. You will learn programming from the ground up, in an easily accessible format using Processing – a Java based language that is widely used for experimental prototyping.

Students will learn to develop sensor-based applications, for example using Microsoft Kinect or LEAP Motion for creating gesture-based interfaces, as well as open web technologies for prototyping mobile apps and other web-based applications.

Lecturers:Dr Rob Saunders (Design Lab)Luke Hespanhol (Design Lab)

Course dates:Semester 1, March 2014Weekend intensives, Weeks 1, 3 & 5 Saturday 9-1 & 2-5 Sunday 10-1 & 2-5

Image source, Dr Martin Tomitsch,http://neighbourhoodscoreboards.com

Design ThinkingIDEA9106, 6 point core unit

This unit introduces students to design thinking skills and how they can be applied to interaction design contexts and to the broader issues faced in contemporary society. Students will practice a range of design methods for researching, generating and evaluating innovative solutions to complex problems, within a collaborative human-centred design process. Industry-focused design briefs will challenge students to engage with the often contradictory needs of multiple stakeholders in the design process and foster their ability to communicate persuasive design proposals.

Lecturers:Dr Lian Loke (Design Lab)

With guest lectures by:Oscar Nicholson (On Productions)Amy Sheppard (Deloitte)

Course dates:Semester 1, March 2014Tuesdays, 6-9pm

Dr Lian Loke is the Director of the Interaction Design and Electronic Arts Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. Her research is interdisciplinary and specialises in body-focused interactive experiences and movement-based interaction design across a range of artistic and design domains, including architecture and live performance. She has run design thinking workshops for Telstra’s Outdoor Media group.

Dr Martin Tomitsch is the Director of the Design Computing Program and researcher in the Design Lab. He has over 10 years experience in informatics and human-computer interaction design.

His research focuses on the design of digital information technologies and new interaction techniques to improve urban liveability.

Prof. Peter Phibbs is the Director of the Halloran Trust and head of the Planning Discipline. He has extensive experience in housing policy, development feasibility and affordable housing issues.

The aim of the Design Lab is to foster design as a means of knowledge production in its own right. Our view is that design is fundamentally a knowledge-producing activity. Different from the natural sciences, which studies the world as it is, the humanities, which studies the human condition, and the arts, which explores the possibilities of expression, design is a study of the world the way it could be through the creation and interrogation of the “designed” world.

Research and creative practice in the Design Lab span a range of disciplines from interaction design and electronic arts to computer science and social science.

Academic Lecturing Staff

ELIGIBILITY Applicants for the Graduate Certificate must hold a Bachelor Degree, or be able to demonstrate the knowledge and aptitude required to undertake tertiary level studies.

The Graduate Certificate can be taken over six months full time.Part time study is available for Australian citizens and permanent residents, and must be completed within the maximum limit of 3 years.

Students may apply to upgrade at the completion of the the Graduate Certificate to the Graduate Diploma and then again to the Masters Program by maintaining a 70 weighted average mark over the course of study.

HOW TO APPLY Applications for Postgraduate studies can now be completed easily online.

Visit ‘Sydney Courses’ to get started.

• http://sydney.edu.au/courses/programs/interaction-design-and-electronic-arts/Graduate-Certificate-in-Interaction-Design-and-Electronic-Arts

Applications must be accompanied by original transcripts of study where applicable (or copies issued and certified by the issuing institution), together with certified copies of your Identification (Birth Certificate or Passport).

Where students are applying for a certificate level based on industry experience, please attach a CV and any other supporting documentation which may assist in the assessment of your application.

ENQUIRIES Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning T 1300 362 006E E arch.sac@sydney.edu.au http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/programs_of_study/postgraduate/IDEA

Produced by Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, the University of Sydney, November 2013.The University reserves the right to make alterations to any information contained within this publication without notice.