Briefing

What kind of hospitality could be related to a 21st Century house, with reference to the exponential increase in the possibility of sharing connections, content and information, to the large use of social networking platform, and to the huge
quantity of information that characterizes the growth of current society?
What kind of evolved services should such house offer, in order to welcome people as well as machines, meaning all those ubiquitous computing devices typical of the information society, through which we relate with our peers?
The candidate should investigate techniques and technologies to be included in a contemporary “smart home”; a smart space, a sort of Ambient Intelligence, which integrates the digital space with the physical space and includes a perceptive
network, meaning a Near Field Communication area, with networks, sensors, displays, and so on.
Keywords: ubiquitous computing, augmented/mixed reality, gesture recognition, interface-design, mash-up, motion tracking open source p2p pyschogeography, semantic web, social networks, tangible interface, multi touch, infovisualization,
wearable computing, web 3.0 Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Spimes, Smart Objects

Deliverables

Candidates should develop a personal investigation – be it a project or a theoretical/critical essay. There are no constraints n terms of presentation techniques; any support and technique is accepted: from essays to Mind Maps, from videos to 3D simulations, from Physical Computing to Interface Design.

Jury

The projects will be evaluated by an International Jury composed by:
Paolo Atzori, Master Digital Exhibit and Set Design Director
Massimo Banzi, interaction designer, Arduino co-creator (www.massimobanzi.com)
Mario Canali, multimedia artist and critic (www.arcnaut.it)
Stefano Mirti, architect and designer, NABA Design Department Director (www.interactiondesign-lab.com)
Francesco Monico, NABA Media Design and Multimedia Arts Department Director
Andrew Quinn, interface designer (www.akipix.eu)

Prize

The winner will be awarded of a full scholarship for the attendance to NABA one-year Master program in Digital Exhibit and Set Design, starting in January 2011.

Deadline

All materials have to be sent to NABA in a closed envelope and HAVE TO REACH NABA WITHIN SEPTEMBER 30TH 2010, along with the attached application form and with all the documents specified in it.