Power-Aware Cord that is one of the exhibition objects part of the exhibition Visual Voltage has been selected to one among 50 coolest inventions of the year by the TIME magazine. The Power-Aware Cord is a results from the Interactive Institute’s research project STATIC! that investigates interaction and product design as a way of increasing [...]
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PechaKucha Night in Tokyo
Sara Backlund, Head of Marketing & Communications at the Interactive Institute, was one of thirteen presenters at PechaKucha Night Tokyo Volume 77 which was held at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo October 28. This PechaKucha was “design-only”, since Tokyo Design Week starts this Friday, October 29. Photo: PechaKucha Night Tokyo.
List of Presenters
Nada Debs : East [...]
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Pecha Kucha at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
27 October, 2010 8:20 pm – 11:30 pm
Adress: Tokyo #77 at SuperDeluxe 1000yen /1 drink B1F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
Sara Backlund from the Interactive Institute, Sweden will talk about “Energy as Design Material”
For more information please visit: http://www.super-deluxe.com
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/tokyo/77
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Prestigious opening of Visual Voltage at Miraikan, Tokyo
About one hundred invited guests and media attended the official opening of the Visual Voltage exhibition at Miraikan in Tokyo in the evening of October 20. The exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. Mamoru Mohri, Chief Executive Director of The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), and Mr. Stefan Noreén, Ambassador of Sweden in [...]
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New book release! “Static! Designing for Energy Awareness”
Interactive Institute’s new book is called “Static! Designing for Energy Awareness” and is published by Arvinius Förlag.
This book presents the design examples from a project called Static!, that was led by Interactive Institute and funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, as well as perspectives on issues in (sustainable) design today. Grounded in passion and humor, [...]
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Visual Voltage at 2010 Sweden-China Innovation Forum
“Change only challenge the prepared mind” Prof Svante Lindquist (Nobelprize presentation)
On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sweden and China the Sweden-China Innovation Forum took place the 21st of May 2010. Leading government’s officials such as Maud Olofsson, H.E. Li Keqiang, First Vice Premier of the People´s Republic [...]
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Visual Voltage in Beijing is now open to the public!
Inauguration in Beijing took place under pomp and circumstance, to the themesong of Star Wars and confetti bombs!
Welcoming words were given, amongst others, by Mr Mikael Lindström, Swedish Ambassador in Beijing.
More than 100 guests attended the opening whereof more than 20 from different media. The recently opened China Science and Technology Museum is located next [...]
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Micro Interventions, Energy credit systems and Energy fasting; results from the Visual Voltage workshop explorations.
All the Visual Voltage workshop exploration results, images from the Pecha Kucha and the finissage in Berlin are now available at the Visual Voltage workshop website, www.visualvoltageworkshop.de.
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