Bill Verplank lecturing at CIID
In a very short time Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design has succeeded in creating a vibrant and inspiring environment and raised the bar for design education and research in Denmark. Their international faculty, their unique combination of education, research and consulting and the institute’s outreach have made CIID an essential part of the Danish design environment.
One of their really great offerings to the design environment outside the institute is their open lecture programme. Each year CIID invite prominent people from their extensive international network to come to Copenhagen and teach at their courses – and give open lectures while they are here anyway. The list of previous and upcoming speakers is long (you will find my name on it twice…) and they just added the next coming three lectures this spring: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Nicholas Wakeham and John Holager. While I only know Mette from the distance through her work at CITA, I have had the pleasure of working with both Nicholas and John previously.
A couple of years ago my company Move worked with Live|Work on a service design project for the pension company PFA. John is working as a senior service designer with Live|Work and during the project we did a joined workshop at their offices in Oslo. On a warm sunny day in June we had a great time discussing and producing experience prototypes for PFA’s clients to test and give feedback on the new service. John is still with Live|Work and on March 17 he will present some of his current thinking on the discipline of service design.
Nicholas we met when we started our networking platform Link UP six years ago (time’s running fast…). Nicholas was a part of the Swedish design group aeswad (which is an abbreviation of ‘Am Ende Sind Wir Alle Deutsch’ – I got the explanation once but somehow it never stuck in my brain…). Together we developed a really cool concept for debating important issues – the design battle – which we executed a couple of times on different occasions at the University of Copenhagen, the Danish Architecture Center and at Rust. It was great fun. Today Nicholas is working as a creative producer at Varelsen and on May 5 you can meet him at the Danish Design School when he is lecturing on the art of doing at CIID.
All lectures take place at the Danish Design School in the large auditorium next to the canteen. If you cannot find the room (and if you have not been there before, that will probably be the case) please call Alie Rose on +45 2090 5005.
See you there.