UTS University of Technology, Sydney - DAB Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building 
A new studio / laboratory / workshop to facilitate research and design of interfaces, instruments, and interactive environments
The Interactivation Studio is a flexible reconfigurable lab space and infrastructure, facilitating multiple scenarios of use (teaching, researching, performing, playing, etc.). The research and design focuses on the interaction between people and technological environment, developing new interface prototypes and demonstrating new ways of interacting with computer environments. Such environments, or electronic ecologies (the idea of an e-cology emphasises the two way nature of interactions), can exist from the intimate scale (wearable computer, personal area networks, handheld networked devices), on the desktop, to the spatial scale of rooms and buildings (interactive architectures). The research approach of the Interactivation Studio is deliberately hands-on, mixing practical experiments with theoretical frameworks, developing in an iterative way in order to include everyone.
Monday 11 - Friday 15 August Open Studio events. A week long introduction to the Studio and its research aims, approaches, history, ideas, infrastructure through installations, hands-on demonstrations of inspirations for new ways of interacting with our electronic environment.
Article in the UTS Magazine U:
University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
Building 6, Level 4 Courtyard
702-730 Harris Street
info: Associate Professor Dr. A. J. Bongers, bert.bongers@uts.edu.au
