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Use the "add content" link"( blue menu), write (or copy paste) your paper in to the text fiedl, give it a name please =) and then choose as topic "Final paper" (topics can be chosen from the right column)

The key to successful and rapid design process are appropriate tools for communication and testing, combined with seamless teamwork and critique. This workshop is a surgery for Your design concepts, it explores advanced design skills to bring ideas into concept stage and beyond.
Teachers and tutors: Kirsti Lehtimäki / Andrea Botero ...more

Blogs and blogsphere are a complex phenomenon. To understand blogging, and what does it mean for media it is important to look at the whole blogspehere beyond the individual blog. blogging combines innovations in technology, user communities, social practices, usability, accessibility, content and benefiting models. This workshop gives a conceptual overview of blogging and teaches students hands on skills to innovate in blogsphere. The emphasis is on rich media use. The content management system used in the workshop is WordPress (http://wordpress.org/http). It is an open source blog engine written in PHP. ...more

Updated 11.4.2006 / This is the timetable of this year's seminar. You will find the topic and the readings related to those days aswell as the responsible people to make a summary and prepare questions for each session. ...more

Director Taku Kaskela gives Video Reportage Workshop in Media Lab starting October 10th. Workshop is part of MDR Study Project.
Study project website: http://arki.uiah.fi/mdr-sp-2006

During the course you learn how to use video as a tool for reporting, capturing and collecting material. We go through basic techniques of editing and shooting, but the main focus of the workshop is to learn how to use and control moving images and sound as a tool for creating a documentary narrative. Technology is used as a vehicle for narrative purposes. We will also reflect on different uses of video as a recording media and as emotional and informational memory. ...more

Download Study Project timetable: MDRproject_contents-20050928T234238.pdf

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Welcome to the Media and Design research focus area. During fall 2005 we are offering a series of courses and activities for the Media Lab UIAH students. Please see the oficial Media lab studie pages and courses for a list of the courses and instructions on how to enrol. ...more

Pekka Himasen luentosarja: Luovan työn filosofia alkaa 1.4. – 29.4. (perjantaisin klo 13-16)

Kaikille kiinnostuneille avoimen luentosarjan teemana on informaatioajan filosofia. Siirtymä informaatioaikaan luovan työn ja filosofian näkökulmasta. Teemaa käsitellään Manuel Castellsin ja Pekka Himasen eri näkökulmista kehittämän verkostoyhteiskunnan teorian kautta. ...more

What is Digital Design? It could be a field of design that has something to do with digital technology, software, networks, media, and society. But such a field has not been defined yet. It is up to the current and future digital designers to do that.

The Digital Design in Society lecture series in the Media Lab (1 credit) introduces the participants to materials and ideas that can aid in discovering and designing this possible emerging field of design, and in placing that field into a context in society. ...more

Harold Nelson spoke about Designing Design Learning in his seminar session today in the Media Lab's 3rd floor lecture room. We will later have material from his workshop and seminar available on the website, in the area dedicated to these events: http://arki.uiah.fi/harold-nelson-2004/

New participants are still welcome to the seminar and lecture sessions between 9 and 11. See the week's schedule for details.

The objective of the lecture series is to introduce some of the central ideas that inform both media culture discourse and media art practice. Each lecture will focus on a particular theme or a topic and will provide a set of conceptual tools for approaching a variety of cases from experimental media art projects and prototypes to the products and genres of media culture. The purpose of the lecture series is to engage both in the development of the media art practice at the Media Lab, as well as in the development of the critical context for that practice. ...more

The seminar will be particularly useful for the students interested in developing ideas for final thesis work in the context of media culture studies. It will help final thesis development by providing a corpus of texts that have been found useful as a shared contextual background, a shared reading practice and a set of conceptual tools for discussing one’s work as well as it’s links to different contexts, both theoretical and practical. ...more

An introduction to ethnographic research: lectures about research methodology and examples of interesting recent cases. Why research is interesting? What has it got to do with design and media culture? What does doing research mean in practice? ...more

Tools for final thesis workshop aims at understanding research as a complex process that can provide practitioners in the area of art and design with resources to inform and enrich their creative process, or develop it into new directions. It will help students to adequately formulate their final thesis projects and to pursue a shared understanding of research practice. The workshop will consist of discussions on such topics as the framing of the research question, presentations of diverse design and art related methodologies as well as presentations of previous MA thesis work. ...more

The workshop will provide the participant with an overview of current modeling practices and their potential use in design. ...more