Mobile Creativity

I am participating in this ONE DAY WORKSHOP:

“THE IMAGINEERING QUARTER:
DESPERATELY SEEKING DIGITAL CREATIVITY”

http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/imagineering-quarter/creative-workshop.txt

It’s free to attend and there is an open invitation.

If you are interested in how Derry might lever Digital Creativity to create wealth then this is the conference for you.

EricssonLabs   

Computers Shown More Creative Than Humans (via @IEEESpectrum) http://icio.us/z402mp

Magee College Design Team 04/03/08

From Left: Lee Cadieux, Robin Hodge, Mark Cullen, Paddy McLaughlin, Terry Quigley, Padraic Lynch, Anthony Hutton, Justin Magee (Missing from photo JB)

Michelle Browne - walking children to school

John Keely - Picture frame reminder system

Simon Byrne - Visual memory aid that compensates for unheard alerts

I will be a panel guest with Mobile Monday on Mar 1st talking about MWC10
http://mobilemondaybelfast.org/

“For all those who missed out on this year’s world’s biggest mobile event of the industry, we’ve asked a selection of NI professionals* who attended, to tell us what impressed them at the show, and what didn’t. Your chance to learn about opportunities in 2010 in this exciting industry!  Ask your questions to speakers from EyeSpyFX, Wee Man Studios, Yellow Design, Aepona, Invest NI, Anaeko and SLA Mobile in a panel discussion next Monday @ 5:15pm-8pm @ Black Box, 18-22 Hill Street (Cathedral Quarter).”

Its free but places are limited, just 28 places left!
http://momobt-mwc2010.eventbrite.com/

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eyespyfx   

EyeSpyFX hit app My WebCam now available on Blackberry App World http://www.eyespyfx.com/blog/?p=388

The memory project is a project where the answer is not visible at the beginning of the project. There isn’t even a brief! If you had been asked to design a stamp celebrating maritime history the answer to the problem would be visible at the beginning of the project. You would know the framework on which the answer will be positioned. Not so with the memory project, not so with many design projects. In projects where the answer is not visible the role of design method and process is heightened. In projects where the answer is not visible the chances of white page syndrome are increased – simply looking at a white page stumped.

You need a method to solve the problem.

In the memory project we are using a method called ethnographic design research. In ethnographic design research is normally carried out by studying a group of people as they undertake a give task. However in this project, for ease of access and speed each student will use their own experiences as the ‘subject’.

Mark Cullen put together this promo video of student work from the Design Dept in the School of Creative Arts.

Have a look and perhaps come and join us!

design@magee from Pixel Rogue on Vimeo.

Memory is an essential function. We use it to function normally in the most mundane interactions.

A question in conversation is remembered and an answer is given reply. The questioner remembers the question they asked and places then interprets in that context.

When you sit down your body remembers how to sit. It is a visceral memory?

A pen may be just a pen or it may be a pen that has been given as a gift and retained because it has an attached memory.

Sometimes you forget to bring your mobile phone with you when you are going out. Mis-remembered?

A more formalised memory is contained in a mounted photo frame on the mantelpiece.

The project Memory should be undertaken using a simplified ethnographic design research method.

The overall objective of the project is to propose new memory related products and services.