the i-design 09 conference took place in the university of westminster on the 24th of sep with inspiring and enlightening presentations from 9 in the morning until 7.30 in the evening, it was intense, fascinating and an exhaustingly full day!
made up of expert discourse, debate and exploration of how digital technologies are blurring the boundaries between the passive and interactive experience of visual art, entertainment, environmental design and the built environment.
highlights included : the panel debate entitled ‘interface: the tactile and sensory conversation’ and tim milne of matterbox discussing how digital media has forced him to think quite differently about the medium of print, and in his view is enabling us to develop a different relationship with those same printed artifacts that we have hitherto viewed primarily as information carriers.
the conference was also punctuated with ‘5d interludes’ dispersed throughout the day, as a snappy counterpoint to the in-depth panel discussions, and keynote talks. this is where practitioners in interactive design were given just five minutes to tantalise and excite us with snapshots of their work; these included jens of visionlabz and lichtfaktor and tali krakowski of wet design with presentation film clips of installations in las vegas and dubai which were very impressive.