Dear friends,

We warmly invite you to this month’s PreWorkTalk ‘Empower the Analog’ by Nancy Birkhölzer and Reto Wettach. We are super excited to give you an exclusive sneak preview of their talk being held at Typo Berlin on Thursday, May 16th, 3pm at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Our PreWorkTalk will take place on Tuesday May 14th. We are happy to welcome you at 8.30 am, the talk will start at 9.00 am.

EMPOWER THE ANALOG

The PC era shaped a computing culture characterized by funneling the digital world through a screen and a mouse. Our current post-PC-devices – such as smartphones and tablets – let us participate in our networked world through smaller screens, touch interfaces and an app for any possible need. But is this really all we can expect from our devices? Do we want to spend our lives staring at small screens, interacting with only two fingers – missing out on the world around us while we follow the latest post and hunt for the newest app? Is the current way we deal with computation really going to help us towards solving the big challenges of our time? Do we as designers even want this as our design focus?

Some recent trends – such as the slow food movement, and an increasing public acknowledgement of a need to switch off, focus and simplify – highlight a new attention to the analog qualities of our lives. This changes our expectations of the digital world, and designing digital services is no longer the aim. Instead we want to empower individuals to live up to their aspirations – and design a service ecosystem in support. We want to empower our bodies and live like “complete” humans again, using all of our senses and physical capabilities. With networked objects, specialized haptic interfaces and new mobile tools, digital technology is increasingly blending with our “real” world. This is a tremendous opportunity to give people new ways of acting in the world, with endless possibilities for everyone’s enablement.

Dear friends,

we cordially invite you to this month’s PreWorkTalk on the topic of information visualization and the use of animation techniques. We are super excited to hear Florian Köhne and Matt Beer speaking.

The talk will take place on Tuesday April 9th. We are happy to welcome you at 8.30 am, the talk will start at 9.00 am.

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Energy, Risk, the Economy and You

Matt Beer is a former chemical and energy efficiency engineer from Australia who has spent the last 2 years researching and creating an animated guide to peak oil as well as running climateexperiment.com.

In his talk Matt will focus on energy in our globalised economy. Oil in particular is so embedded in everything we do, most of us take for granted what this toxic black goo has done to our lives. But this period of oil abundance is drawing to a close and it will be replaced by a period of high and volatile prices that will have massive implications to our economy and your place in it. Join Matt in a discussion about an issue that will define your life over the coming decades.

Motion Graphics from “Institut für Trickfilmforschung”

We cordially invite you to this month’s PreWorkTalk!
We’ve been busy catching up with the latest trends in technology. Last week hosting our own IXDS booth on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and this week visiting CeBit in Hannover. We’re excited to share and discuss our insights with you next Tuesday, March 12th. We are happy to welcome you at 8.30 am, the talk will start at 9.00 am.

Berlin Impressions from the Mobile World Congress and CeBit

The Mobile World Congress 2013 was with over 72.000 attendees the largest MWC ever. Not only most major handset manufactures and large international telcos exhibited their current vision of this field, but also tons of smaller and highly innovative companies presented themselves and their take on the future of mobile. Taking place in Barcelona, the fair is known for bringing a glimpse of Spanish life-style to the mobile community and through this enable conversations beyond the standard business talk.

In this month’s PreWorkTalk Berliners will report on their personal highlights and inspirations of their visits at MWC and CeBit.
Several speakers, including Gil Rosen fromT-Labs and Felix Wieduwilt from MLOVE, as well as Reto Wettach and Nancy Birkhölzer from IXDS, will share their impressions. Amongst other observations we will discuss new gestures to connect displays and devices, how the classroom of the future might look like and how m2m finally becomes fun.

We are looking forward to learn about their insights and discuss about the latest technology trends.

We are looking forward to seeing you!
Your IXDS Team

we cordially invite you to this month’s PreWorkTalk!
As always the talk will take place on the second Tuesday of the month, February 12th.
We are happy to welcome you at 8.30 am, the talk will start at 9.00 am.
We are looking forward to talks by Michael Haas, Julian Adenauer and Jaques-André Dupont!

Drawing Machines
by Michael Haas and Julian Adenauer

Sonice Development is a Berlin based group of artists and inventors. Most of their work is focussed on drawing machines and interactive installations. Their most prominent invention is the Facadeprinter, a machine that paints huge artworks onto walls using paintballs.
Michael and Julian will talk about their pursuit to create new aesthetics through new techniques.

New Practices of Video Mapping in Art and Design
by Jacques-André Dupont

Jacques-André is an audiovisual creative, active in motion design, VJing & light installations. He will talk about video mapping, a technique currently spreading into the field of art and design. Breaking the rectangle boundaries of the audiovisual format, video mapping offers a variety of surfaces to project on, allowing the creator to augment or change our perception of reality.
Additionally, Jacques-André will show his work in progress, the  ”augmented painting” concept.