Urban – 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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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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FutureEverything 2013

Lalya — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:41:39 +0000

Back in Manchester for the annual FutureEverything festival. Or summit, as they called it this year. It’s quite fascinating how different the festival is from one year to another. Always very nice to catch up with old friends, bump into fellow Geordies, see some familiar faces and also meet some new ones. Didn’t get a chance to catch any of the amazing music programme this time around though. Sniff!

Some of this year’s highlights:

Natalie Jeremijenko‘s mindmeltingly brilliant talk about critical design for re-negotiating nature’s place in urban space
The performance Speed of Light with a huge number of joggers wearing synchronised LEDs on their bodies and creating coloured light patterns in the night by running along on the Salford waterfront
The Disability Meets Digital workshop by the excellent Alison Smith from Pesky People
Michelle Teran’s beautiful performance Folden

Follow it on Twitter, through @AttayaProjects and/or #futr.

[UPDATE 28.09.13]

Here’s the festival’s reel for 2013:

Welcome to the #futr – FutureEverything 2013 from FutureEverything.

And here’s their Flickr galleries!

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