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Never Meet Your Heroes (Final Project Sprint Week 7 of 10)

Customary reference to the CIID timewarp: this week was a long one, felt like two. The first week of that…

I’m a Builder, like. (Final Project Sprint Week 6 of 10)

Ok, my content management system failed me, and completely destroyed the original draft of this post. I know, I should’ve…

Experience the Prototype (Final Project Sprint Week 5 of 10)

One thing’s for sure, time is flying by on this project. We’re all trying to get out a bit more…

Shorter Days (Final Project Sprint Week 4 of 10)

With the industry project with Maersk finished, I can add to my list of experiences at CIID my very first…

Storms & Docs (Final Project Sprint Week 3 of 12)

Week three, and by Monday evening I’d completed five visits to three separate hostels, meeting 11 guests and 4 staff…

In the Field (Final Project Sprint Week 2 of 12)

At the beginning of the week I tried to balance the arrangement of some research trips with continued reading and…

Getting Real (Final Project Sprint Week 1 of 10)

Thanks to the intensity of our schedule at CIID, it’s now back with a bang to thinking about the final project….

CPH With You: Service Design for Copenhagen Airport

“CPH With You” is a new approach to communication and passenger guidance within Copenhagen Airport. Currently airports communicate with passengers…

CIID Final Project – Week 7

This week took us to CPH airport on our Service Design course. The week flew past and a lot of…

CIID Final Project Weeks 5 & 6

Coming from London. The holidays from CIID brought ample opportunity to reflect on the past 6 months and think about…

CIID Final Project – Week 4

Systems/Layers with Adam Greenfield and Mayo Nissen was an inspiration. We had plenty to do in the final week before…

CIID Final Project – Week 3

Week three brought Adam Greenfield and Mayo Nissen of Urbanscale to CIID to teach “Systems/Layers”. I felt a certain caution during my…

“A City and it’s Secrets” – Urban Discovery

Can a city subtly and inconspicuously tell its own stories, speak about its history and the people who lived in…

CIID Final Project -Week 2

This week was the continuation of our performative design workshop with Amanda Parkes (ITP) and David Gauthier. Being completely out…

RetroCam: Capture the Moment You Missed

RetroCam caters to all those times when you exclaim “Quick! Where’s the camera?”. A beautiful, ambient device, the RetroCam sits…

Haptic Explorations

During a week long workshop run by Bill Verplank and David Gauthier at CIID, we were introduced to “The Plank”…

CIID – Halfway There

Six months of my year at CIID has passed. I should call it “our” year, because the amazing people who…

CIID Final Project – Week 1

And so it begins. Week 1 marks the end of a two-week reflection period during which we were asked to…

Tunin’ Podcast Player

Podcasts are often simply recorded radio shows, which people listen to at their computer.  Music applications, like iTunes, give a…

Rules

So, I’m in the middle of our “Computational Design” workshop and suffering what I call “Generative Artists’ Block”. In other…

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