DA AroundMobile

Around Mobile is the fifth workshop of the Master in Interaction Design and Master in Design 2007 at Domus Academy. The workshop brings together the students of the two master courses in an joint effort to investigate the boundaries between MOBILE technologies and the world of PHYSICAL OBJECTS that support both COMMUNICATION and SOCIAL processes and behaviours.The workshop takes place from June 18th to July 13th.The territory of mobile communication is rapidly growing: today it includes every artefact that is connected WIRELESS to a communication network, that is able to DIALOGUE REMOTELY with other objects, can manage different MEDIA formats and that is (at least partially) PORTABLE.AroundMobile aims at investigating the bandwidth of the mobile concept, from ultra mobile ubiquitous solutions, to static objects that exploit, from a different perspective giant santa inflatable, the potentialities of mobile technology, like the possibility to be remotely activated and/or to wireless retrieve information etc.The aim of AroundMobile is to re-think the MOBILE LANDSCAPE made of products and services by developing a set of innovative solutions inspired by emerging characteristics of contemporary socio-cultural, technological and business scene, starting form some crucial FACTS and related POTENTIALITIES.The workshop goal is to design autonomous artefacts (not a mobile phone) that embed mobile technology potentialities in terms of innovative FORMAL, SENSORIAL/EXPRESSIVE and INTERACTION qualities.http://projects.domusacademy.net/aroundmobile