Haptic InterFace – Workshop 2014

Ann Morrison

I work with tangible computing in urban, installation, mobile and cultural environments, looking to create playful activating interactions. I’ve been working with dogs, elders, and now responsive furniture-architecture with a vibrotactile vest, working with patterns that emulate how we touch each other to guide, to calm, to activate and to assist.

Beck Davis

Queensland College of Art

Beck convenes the Product Design major at Queensland College of Art and researches early stage design, including how designers collaborate and respond to complex problems. Previously, Beck was a research fellow and lecturer of sustainability, design methods, design-led innovation and social change, QUT; and DIA State Councillor, 3D Design Portfolio. Recently, she co-authored the Arts Queensland ‘Knowledge Economy Market Development Mapping Study’ and co-founded LiveSpace, a studio for socially and environmentally responsible design. She is co-organising ‘Cloud Workshop’ exploring wearable technology to enrich citizen connections across the Asia-Pacific, and ‘E-waste Autopsy’ a digital interactive installation focusing on design, technology, distribution, repair and material culture at Queensland Museum.

Daniel Gilgen

Professor, University of Applied Sciences in Trier/Germany

Daniel Gilgen studied product design at the HfG Offenbach with an emphasis in product semantics. Before starting his own independent design studio in Frankfurt in 1992, he worked at different design companies in London and San Francisco. Coming from industrial- and product design through didactic- and exhibition design he got increasingly involved in aspects of interface- and interaction design, which led him to the emerging field of physical computing.

During in the last decade he merged the design of physical objects and their specific affordances with interface design approaches and concepts. His strong interest in design research and teaching brought him to the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt where he worked as an assistant professor. He contributed to several conferences in the field of interface design and ubiquitous computing.

Since 2009 Daniel Gilgen is a full-time professor for spatial communication and physical computing in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier/Germany.

Dave Hrynkiw

I want to share my enthusiasm for accessible electronics, robotics and solar power at HIF. I am excited by the chance to dabble in almost any field where I can get my hands dirty doing something fascinating.

Dave Hrynkiw has had a long and varied experience in electronics over the last 20 years. Originally a Mechanical Engineering Technologist, he spun his love of robotics into a company providing DIY electronic kits and tools to Western Canada. He started this company over 20 years ago to share his enthusiasm for accessible electronics, originally with solar-powered analog robots. Since then it has grown into a center for the hardware hacking and DIY community in Canada. Dave has participated with the Maker Movement on many levels, and has contributed substantial technical expertise to the local Calgary Maker scene, including the Make:Fashion technology fashion show.

Dr Kit Messham-Muir

Dr Kit Messham-Muir is an art and museum theorist and critic, based in Newcastle, Australia. Much of his research considers the role of affect in museum exhibitions, and he has explored the capacity of gestural media interfaces to enable greater affective and empathic responses from museum visitors. Dr Messham-Muir has also won a number of teaching awards, which include a national citation for innovative teaching practices. He gained his PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of New South Wales in 2000, with a thesis titled ‘Toward an Understanding of Affect’. He has lectures at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, University of Western Sydney, University and Sydney and University of Hong Kong. He has taught many of the Hong Kong’s museum professionals and delivered a series of lectures for the LCSD to Hong Kong art curators during 2002-2004. He is the director of the StudioCrasher project www.studiocrasher.com, frequently writes reviews and articles for the international newspaper The Conversation, and has a monograph on the official war art of video artist Shaun Gladwell forthcoming in 2015.

Dr Rafael Gomez

Director, Propaganda Mill

Dr Rafael Gomez has over 10 years experience in design spanning industry and academia. He has a PhD in design with an focus on design emotion and experience design. He has published in books and has presented extensively at international design conferences and various universities and institutions around the world. He also has extensive industry experience as a designer having worked across various industries including aviation, construction, medical, government and consumer electronics. He is founder and director of Propaganda Mill – a multidisciplinary design company spanning the areas of industrial design, graphic design, projection graphics and augmented reality. He is also founder of Design Emotion Collaborative (DEEM), a member of the Design Institute of Australia and Industrial Design network Queensland. Rafael is a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in the School of Design, is a research coordinator for the People and Systems Lab and leads teaching programs in Design, Digital Design Communication and Visualisation, and Human-Centred Design.

Dr Roger Ng

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Roger Ng received a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Clothing Study from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After that, he pursued a M.A. in Philosophy and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include: aesthetics, fashion design and communication, 3-D pattern design for fashion.

Roger is an amateur photographer with artworks being exhibited in the Center of Fine Art Photography in 2011 and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library Gallery in 2012. He is a Tibetan Buddhist follower and he published a photography book on Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage.

Roger had run his family business in garment manufacturing, trading and retailing for eight years before he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and commenced his academic career. His services in the Hong Kong apparel industry have never stopped. He is the Chairman of the Chinese Textile Mills Association.

Dr. Patricia Flanagan

Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Dr. Patricia Flanagan runs a laboratory for experiments in art and technology within the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. The Wearables Lab is an innovative trans-disciplinary laboratory that provides a space where professionals and creative thinkers from a range of backgrounds can explore the borders between art, science and technology. The lab is equipped with state of the art technology and facilitated by a team of experts and support staff.

Flanagan is an established artist whose research primarily explores the interface between public and private spheres. Her work is held in public and private collections around the world and has been exhibited in Australia, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and China and published in numerous books and journals including Germany’s leading Arts Journal ‘Kunstforum’, Irish Sculpture Society Journal & ArtReach Magazine Australia. Her work has been acknowledged through awards, grants and scholarships including an Australian Postgraduate Research Award for doctoral research in the field of Public Art and in 2012 the Max Fabre Foundation Environmental Awareness Award.

She completed a Doctorate of Philosophy (Public Art) University of Newcastle Australia; Master of Art (Visual Art) Bauhaus University Weimar; Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and Associate Diploma awarded with honours (Fashion Design). Dr. Flanagan established the Wearables Lab at the Academy of Visual Art at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2009 where she currently works as Assistant Professor. Flanagan’s academic career includes lecturing for the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany and the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Elizabeth Shaw

Queensland College of Art Griffith University

Elizabeth Shaw is an academic and Convenor of the Fine Art Program and Convenor of Jewellery and Small Objects at Queensland College of Art Griffith University. She maintains an active research portfolio while providing academic leadership for Fine Art and Jewellery and Small Objects. She holds a research Masters, her creative research is object based informed by her training as silversmith. She employs traditional crafts techniques to explore ideas of functionality, ethical practice and material culture, working with mixed media combining found objects with precious metal. She writes and exhibits regularly. Shaw chaired the 2013 JMGA Conference Participation and Exchange –valuing the participative community (Brisbane). She participated in the inaugural Haptic Interface in Hong Kong 2012. She contributed to the delivery of the Ethical Metalsmith’s Radical Jewelry Makeover in Brisbane Australia 2010 and in New Mexico USA 2011 and presented at the Academy of Arts and Creative Industries International Conference in Timor 2011.

Emma Cooper

Director, Little Big Design

Emma Cooper trained at the University of Brighton in Interior Architecture, where most of her work revolved around how people interact with space. Using models and machines she explored relationships between the consistent and the temporary. She has worked as a 3D designer specializing in spaces for pop up events and retail, working with new materials and technologies pushing the possibilities of how individuals interact with and experience what is made.

Cooper is the director of ‘Little Big Design’ that creates environments for play and interaction, utilizing existing materials and finding ways to re-appropriate them for alternative uses.

Erina Kashihara

Erina Kashihara hails from Japan, where she has been creating light accessories and dresses since 1985. Her Jewel Labyrinth is a kaleidoscope inspired geometric LED dress that changes colour based on wireless camera input.

Jake Oliver-Fishman

Creative Director, Little Big Design

Jake Oliver-Fishman is an artist and designer who creates events and installations that look to encourage its viewers and participants to give further consideration to their potential to play and interact within their everyday lives. As well as his own work, he works with a group of artists to create large scale works for festivals and public events.

Jake studied Fine Art (BA) at the University of West England, he spent half a year on exchange in Hong Kong where his work took an unexpected change in direction. Having previously worked almost exclusively on sculptural and installation work, following wearing a sculpture out in public, his work became about the direct interaction the public had with what was made rather than the objects themselves. Installations and events take place that unknowingly involve the public as performers or artworks, often confronting people with possibilities for embracing the unfamiliar and seemingly absurd.

He is a partner in the design company ‘Little Big Design’. They strive to deliver innovative ethical creations that give greater consideration to how individuals interact with and experience design, whilst being environmentally aware in what is produced and what happens to them after their initial use.

Jared Donovan

Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

I’m a Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. My main research interests are in gestural interaction and participatory design. I worked for four years at the SPIRE centre at the University of Southern Denmark in the area of Participatory Innovation. Among other things, I investigated the use of ‘provotypes’ (provocative prototypes) as ways to start conversations with stakeholders within a participatory innovation process. My PhD, which was carried out at the University of Queensland investigated the design of a gestural interface to allow dentists access to electronic patient records while undertaking a dental examination.

Meiyi Cheung

Paragon Design Limited

Meiyi is a local born fashion designer, runs Paragon Design Limited for about 9 years, provides design solutions to fashion retailers and brands. She holds a MA Degreeof Design and BA Degree of Fashion Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Herbelief in “design without bourndaries” leads her to multi-disciplinary design practice. Sherecently creates WHOSTHAT, her own brand of wearable art and artsy fashion. She believesfashion is not just for chase and grab. Fashion, to her, is a piece of delicately crafted art piecethat goes with body form, sensation and motion, rather than a piece of commodity that bepurchased for disposal. Her first collection is a collaboration project with 2 Japanese paintersThe signature pieces were showed on the runways and exhibited in both Hong Kong andGuangzhou, successfully aroused industry’s interest and media’s attention to the relationshipbetween fashion and art.
Meiyi is currently the executive member of the Hong Kong Fashion Designers Association,the external assessor and the member of the board of examiners of the fashion course ofthe Hong Kong University Space, the panel member of Hong Kong Design Smart Initiative.She was nominated to design uniforms for the Beijing Olympic and the world expo, shanghai2010.

Raune Frankjaer

With a background in architecture and photography Raune was a self-employed artisan for several years before becoming involved with new media. She holds a B. A. in Intermedia Design and is currently enrolled in a masters design program, specializing in spatial communication and physical computing with a strong emphasis on the political and ethical aspects of design.

Sara Adhitya

Sara Adhitya is an urban designer with a multidisciplinary background in environmental design, architecture, urbanism, music and sound design. She collaborates with design, research and governmental organizations around the world towards improving the quality of our urban environments. Awarded a European doctorate in the ‘Quality of Design’ of architecture and urban planning, she is concerned with the composition of more sustainable urban rhythms. She is currently a Research Associate at University College London, where she is developing the concept of Universal Composition – the multisensorial design of our environment in space and time – while advancing interdisciplinary university education.

Tobias Klein

Studio Tobias Klein is a practice, operating in the between of architecture, across the fields of art and installation, experimental design, interactivity and sculpture. Trained internationally as an architect, his work maintains a fascination with the construct of space, while questioning the modern image of its understanding, instigating a re-positioning between embodiment, perception and projection.
The works constantly evolve between static and dynamic models, shifting from objects to installations and design, prospecting new visual territories in the field of narrated embodied space.

Zoe Mahony

APA Awardee Zoe Mahony has been a fashion designer, business CEO and educator. Zoe has extensive Australian and European experience in RTW markets with roles in design, production, ethical supply chains, and marketing. She is a seasoned educator, teaching design thinking, communication, and new technologies. Her current research focus is in the multidisciplinary field of Innovative Wearables in Fashion Design.