Product Sound Design Summer School in August 2010 – apply now!
Want to spend your summer at Design Factory? Feel free to do so in any case, but here is a great excuse:
Product Sound Design Summer School, August 23-26 2010, Aalto University, Design Factory, Espoo, Finland
Future products will rely on our natural capabilities of continuous and physical interaction. Moreover, for the best experience in their use, they need to stimulate, but not saturate, all our senses. Our sense of hearing is quite advanced; yet only a few product developers, engineers, marketing teams, and designers know how to make use of it properly. The COST-SID action, over the years, has developed a growing body of methods, tools, and techniques to get you started.
Our mission in this summer school is to educate the future product design and development team members with a specific competence on interactive sound. The training school is strategically positioned as a first step in a longer research and training on the integration of SID product sound design methods with Product Design and Development, as thought at the Aalto University and MIT, for example.
Upon completing the summer school, the participants will be able to
- use effective strategies for concept generation and communication regarding the usage of sound in future products,
- prototype and evaluate an interactive sonic product according to a scenario given by the partnering companies HipUI and Powerkiss
- earn 2 ECTS from the Aalto University.
Target Participants
The target participants are 16-20 students in the last year of masters studies, or first two years of PhD studies in design, engineering, or economics. They will be selected by the relevance of their studies or research to the product sound design. We expect about half of the trainees to be Aalto students.
Application
The applicants should send,
- a CV,
- a letter of motivation that clearly indicates the applicant’s motivation, previous experience with interactive product sound design, and expectations from this training activity,
- an official transcript of completed and remaining studies, all in Portable Document Format (PDF) to Cumhur Erkut latest by Monday, June 21, 2010.
The summer school requires no registration fee. For the selected participants from outside of Finland, basic financial support that would cover the most economic travel and accommodation costs will be provided by the COST IC0601 Action SID.
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