Design – Attaya Projects

2ND MENTORING DAY AT SHIFT

Lalya — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:38:37 +0000

Another great day of mentoring young creative graduates at the Shift programme!

Shift is an internship programme for young creatives, organised by Newcastle-based Studio Precept. It involves a wide variety of mentors from the industry, to advise the interns and give them practical skills through focused workshops.

Attaya director Lalya (well that’s me writing this post anyway, init) is one of the expert mentors recruited for the programme, where she’s holding a series of workshops and seminars about design for digital interactions in 3D physical space in general, and urban interaction design in particular.

This session was open to the public and ended with presentations of group projects, which ranged from interactive furniture to street art for the elderlies. Great fun!

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Spotlight on Teresa Almeida – Northern Design Festival

Lalya — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:29:03 +0000

Another Attaya Projects collaborator featured in our showcase at Northern Design Festival is Teresa Almeida. Teresa is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator whose main interests are wearable and soft technology, craft, tangible and embodied interfaces, ecology, sustainability, and design for empowerment and social innovation. She is currently a PhD student at the Digital Interaction Group at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.

Teresa is showing some of her work with e-textiles throughout the festival and holding a workshop about DIY creative electronics, together with Lalya Gaye, on 12th October between 11.00-14.00 at B&D Studios. Outcome of the workshop will be displayed at the showcase during the rest of the festival.

Pop by on Saturday to check out what we are doing at the workshop and throughout the festival to have a look at her work!

Time: 10-19th October
Location: B&D Studios, 3rd Floor, Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, NE1 6QE Newcastle upon Tyne
Entrance: Free!

Find out more about her work at www.banhomaria.net

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Attaya Showcase at Northern Design Festival!

Lalya — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:00:52 +0000

We are having a showcase called A Cup of Attaya at B&D Studios in Newcastle, as part of the 2013 Northern Design Festival (this year’s theme is Create:Digital).

During ten days (from 10-19 October), we will inhabit the space of B&D Studios, redecorate it with interactive installations, demos of work-in-progress, and have a chill-out salon area where we’ll welcome visitors with a nice cup of West-African Attaya tea and traditional Swedish cookies (Why, you ask? Because they’re tasty! Yum yum yum).

The whole thing will start with an opening and website launch on 10th October at 17.30, followed by a workshop on the 12th at 11.00. Besides demos of on-going Attaya projects, the showcase will also include ‘artists spotlights’ on Attaya collaborators throughout the festival (exact dates and times for artist spotlights will follow shortly).

Some of the featured Attaya Projects artists who will be showing their work and inhabiting the space include:

Lalya Gaye (SWE/SN/ML/NCL)
Anya Kovalieva (BY/SWE/Gateshead)
Luke Hardisty (Bradford/NCL/London)
Victoria Bradbury (US/NCL)
Teresa Almeida (PT/NCL)
Jonathan West (Gateshead)
Bettina Nissen (DE/NCL)
Andrew Wilson (Huddersfield)
Kathryn Hodgkinson (NCL)

Join us for the launch and come hang out with us during the festival to have a look and a chat about what we do!

The opening party + website launch will take place on Thursday 10th October from 17.00
(closing time TBC. Tips: Globe Gallery will also have an opening for the festival straight afterwards, from 6 to 8pm. It will be great, don’t miss it!)

B&D Studios are located at Commercial Union House, 3rd Floor, Pilgrim Street, NE1 6QE Newcastle upon Tyne (across the street from Tyneside Cinema, upstairs from where Maplin used to be – yes that building that seems to float over the street). Many thanks to B&D Studios for hosting us!

Our opening hours are:
10 – 19 October
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 10.00 – 19.30
Wed: 10.00 – 18.00
Sat: 12.00 – 17.00
Sun: closed.

More info about the workshop, artist spotlights and other activities coming soon on this blog.

See you there!

UPDATE (5.10.13): Updated the opening hours, as the showcase will be closed on Sundays.

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Shift Open Day

Lalya — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:19:20 +0000

Remember Shift, the internship programme for young creative we’re involved in? There was an open day the other day at Studio Precept the other day, and Attaya took part in it.

It was a great occasion to meet with prospective interns, catch up with other teachers and mentors and ravage the buffet. We also did portfolio crits and demos. Lalya’s demo showed how to use projection mapping techniques and draw with light on 3D objects (here, a japanese wooden 3D puzzle), using MadMapper. Great fun!

How Studio Precept looks like when the space is not having an open day!

Little projection mapping demo set-up

A prospective intern drawing with light on the object

Some light animation on a 3D puzzle using projection mapping

We’ll upload a little demo video of this one of these days.

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First Mentoring Day at Shift!

Lalya — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:14:10 +0000

Fun day teaching urban interaction design, physical computing and iterative prototyping at the Shift internship programme today!

A little bit of projection mapping… a little bit of Arduino… a fair amount of overview on seminal projects and relevant design methods… and a lot of iterative prototyping and group projects(-ing)!

Attaya director Lalya (well that’s me writing this post anyway, init) is one of the expert mentors recruited for the programme, and this was the first of a series of regular workshops she’s holding at Shift about design for digital interactions in 3D physical space in general, and urban interaction design in particular.

The next one will take place in October and will be open to the public as well, after registration!

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