Siena Design Project 2006

The objective is to make of the SDP a long lasting initiative, which will motivate the students, documenting the evolution of information design educational practices, making them available to a large educational audience in Europe.

The SdP2006 is held at the Certosa di Pontignano , Siena, from the 23rd until the 26th of July 2006.

The projects:




Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland Liaison: Prof. Liam J. Bannon, Prof. Parag Deshpande Group Members List: Macdara Eamonn Butler, Marc Mclaughlin, David Morgan, Oisin Lavery View the presentation.	"Lorg Láimhe" The essence of this project is communication and our aim was to explore social interaction within a public space. Gestures, as a form of non-verbal communication, can be exchanged across distinctive and remote locations, linking one public space to another. Our study of the traditional market in Limerick city builds on the universality of relating to people through hand gestures. Preserving a degree of anonymity and ambiguity provides a platform for open communication between everybody. Passers by are encouraged through their own curiosity to interact with a pair of moving hands on the screen. They become aware that another person is interacting with them at another location in the city during participation.



Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Liaison: Prof. Yngve Sundblad, Prof. Ann Lantz Group Members List: Li Su, Helene Hjelmvik, Johanna Norén, Elin Önnevall,Charlotte Andersson-Björkholm, David Wahlund, Michael Gniady. View the presentation.



Domus Academy , Italy Liaison: Prof. Claudio Moderini, Katrin Svabo Bech, Pietro Turi Group Members List: Yasmina Haryono, Liliana Rodriguez, Luis-Raul Moysen Mason View the presentation.	Energise: Play and free-movement in a designed urban playground as a physical activity to energize commuters. Our project proposes a series of designed "zones" in which users can participate in free-movement to energize themselves, either as a personal exercise or a networked social activity. The activity uses urban architecture, furniture and signage to achieve this goal. It encourages: - [re-]discovering of new areas within the city - interaction with others of same interest - exercise + fitness - creativity + fun



University of Siena , Italy Liaison: Prof. Antonio Rizzo, Prof. Patrizia Marti, Dott. Silvio Cioni Group Members List: Lisa Marri, Andrea Alessandrini, Cristiano Zecchi, Alessia Falugi, Simone Orefice OR Ivan Provenzano, Marina Camara, Marco Caselli, Roberto Cisco, Maurizio Nesti. View the presentation of Vox Populi View the presentation of Library Lounge	Vox Populi provides a public speaking corner where people can express freely their opinions obout municipality's survey and debate about local news and current topics. Using Vox Populi people can browse and listen to local radio news, partecipate to live radio broadcast events, record a personal audio comment, search specific topics, and navigate the audio archive (audioblog). Vox Populi integrates a web radio system and can support different personal devices for listening and sharing personal music and audio contents. It provides awareness about its current state and outgoing activities and support for multimedia presentations in public. Vox Populi is an interactive news gateway that amplifies the citizen voice and allows people to perform live presentations and discussions in local/remote situations.It will give a whole new meaning to the concept of community participation and public meeting space.



The Siena Design Project was held in Siena, Certosa di Pontignano , from the 23rd until the 26th of July 2006. Siena Design Project 2006 Schedule and SDP Internal Commetee Contacts ANTONIO RIZZO [rizzo@unisi.it] UNIVERSITÀ DI SIENA Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Sede di Via dei Termini 6, 53100 Siena, Italia Tel: +39 0577 48263 http://rizzo.media.unisi.it