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Interview with Jonathan Kestenbaum of NESTA on innovation and design
A few weeks ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken interviewed Jonathan Kestenbaum, the CEO of NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. The interview, which is now published on...
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Seoul Named ‘World Design Capital’ for 2010
Seoul was designated as the “World Design Capital (WDC) 2010” by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) on the last day of its congress in San Francisco, Saturday,...
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Changing the change
Changing the change. Design Visions, Proposals and Tools is an international conference, chaired by Ezio Manzini (blog) of the Politecnico di Milano, on the role and results of design research in the...
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Torino heading towards 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
Torino, Italy officially opens the World Design Year next week with an extraordinary New Year’s Eve, organised specially to celebrate Torino 2008 World Design Capital. The centre of events for 31...
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Eataly, the slow and experiential supermarket
Last week I visited Eataly again, a fantastic “experiential” supermarket, right here in Torino. Associated with the Slow Food movement, you can dwell in it for hours and feel constantly stimulated,...
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Changing the Change blog
About a month ago I announced the conference Changing the Change about the role and results of design research in the transition towards sustainability (see PPF and Core77). The conference will be...
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Donald Norman in Torino, Italy on 15 March
Donald Norman is probably one of the most prominent guests at the upcoming Piemonte Share Festival, curated by Bruce Sterling. Norman will be part of a panel on Saturday afternoon 15 March entitled...
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A conversation about Torino with Bruce Sterling
Today Torino World Design Capital published an interview Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently conducted with Bruce Sterling. This time not about spimes, ubiquitous computing or digital...
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Videos online of Share Festival 2008 conferences
All videos of the conferences at the Bruce Sterling curated Share Festival that recently took place in Turin, Italy, are now online. Aside from Bruce Sterling, exhilarating discussants were Massimo...
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Changing the Change conference looks very promising
The three-day Changing the Change conference, which is about the role of design research in sustainable change and scheduled for 10-12 July in Turin, Italy, looks to become very interesting indeed....
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Off Congress, an impressive series of events on design and architecture in...
If you are considering coming to Turin, Italy this year, you may want to come at the end of June and/or the beginning of July. Not only is that the time when two important conferences — the World...
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One month to go to the World Congress of Architecture
In a month’s time Turin, Italy will host the XXIII edition of the World Congress of Architecture, promoted by the UIA (International Union of Architects). More than 4000 participants have registered...
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Changing the Change – a call to action
I just wrote a long article on Core77 on the international three-day Changing the Change conference “on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability”, which just...
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A choice for language as a key to understanding cultural context
Today we made a little survey of the languages spoken at our office and we came to a quite remarkable seventeen: Arabic, Armenian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,...
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Experientia, Diana and the Canavese Connexion
Experientia is often involved in supporting and promoting the Piedmont, Italy territory where it is located. Our latest initiative is Diana, a machine designed to satisfy existing and future needs of...
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Turin, Italy to host first UPA European Regional Conference
Over 250 participants are expected to attend the first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) next month. From December 4-6, 2008, the beautiful baroque city of...
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The best design policies are local
A review of the Shaping the Global Design Agenda conference by Mark Vanderbeeken (Experientia) and Marcia Caines (Cluster) The days after the American presidential election are clearly a period of...
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European usability and design conference presentations online
The first European conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA), which was dedicated to Usability and Design, is more than a week away but the high quality of the event still lingers....
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Experientia and European research projects
Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for interesting collaboration opportunities where we can bring in our human-centred research...
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Two upcoming European conferences
IRealize Turin, Italy 9-10 June 2009 It’s still early days for this conference that presents itself as “two days aimed at identifying unsolved problems, suggesting possible (technological?) solutions...
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A participatory website supporting families with disabled children
The Turin-based non-profit organisation Area, which supports families with disabled children, just launched its new website, developed with the intensive support of Experientia. The site, named Di.To...
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Experientia office on Google Street View
We are blessed with having our offices on a very nice square in a very nice city. Many have come by already, but many more not yet. Now we can give you a flavour thanks to Google Street View. Our...
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LIFT France and I Realize Italy
Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers, and activists who are inventing...
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From “cultivating diversity” to “embracing cultural diversity”
A few months ago, we wrote with satisfaction how the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) got inspired by the theme of its first European regional conference (Turin, December 2008 – co-chaired...
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Experientia helps Helsinki reduce carbon emissions
Helsinki, Finland — Yesterday, Turin-based company Experientia was announced as part of the winning team for a project in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, which aims to construct an urban zone with low or no...
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Max Mara launches new website, designed by Experientia
Experientia, the Turin-based user experience design company, has created a new and innovative international website for the Max Mara brand. It’s online. www.maxmara.com is the address of the new Max...
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Irene Cassarino: The social dimension of environmental sustainability
Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino went yesterday to the international “The social dimension of environmental sustainability” conference, organised at Turin’s Environment Park with the support...
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Torino tags its monuments for tourists
The Italian city of Torino just launched “The Colors of Torino“, helping tourists through Microsoft’s Color Tags at monuments and tourist attractions. If you want to know more about a certain...
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Open positions at Experientia
Experientia is an international experience design consultancy helping companies and organisations to innovate their products, services and processes by putting people and their experiences first. Our...
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University and Cyberspace conference videos online
A few weeks ago the Communia conference University and Cyberspace took place here in Torino, Italy, with a focus on “reshaping knowledge institutions for the networked age”. Speakers included Massimo...
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Happy birthday Experientia – 5 years old
Experientia turns five years old today, 21 July! We’ve been busy in the last year. Apart from the great projects and fruitful collaborations with old and new clients, we’ve also completely redesigned...
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Experientia congratulates Italy on Esperienza Italia
2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, and it is fitting that the celebrations are kicking off in Turin, which (in addition to being Experientia’s home base) was the first capital of...
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Izmo Summer School 2011 – Public Spaces in the City – Torino, Italy
Izmo, the Italian association focused on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT, organizes an International Summer School in Torino from September 5th to 14th 2011 that...
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Interview on Experientia’s strategy on sustainable living in Helsinki
This month’s e-Periscope review has a brief interview with Experientia® partner Mark Vanderbeeken, talking about Experientia’s strategy on sustainable living in Helsinki and how its work on the Low2No...
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Announcement: Dataviz workshop in Torino, Italy
On 12 to 17 December, the people of Better Nouveau plan Dataviz, an in-depth workshop on the visual representation of large datasets. Better Nouveau is an independent design label and an innovation...
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“Beautiful things that matter” – Experientia’s new website for granstudio
Site works also as a full-screen swipeable tablet web app Today granstudio, the international design studio based in Turin, launches its new website, created by Experientia®. Founded by...
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Michele Visciola speaking on ‘Town_Re-coding’
On 11 April, Experientia president Michele Visciola will be a guest speaker at the Town Re-coding seminar (pdf), a Turin event to discuss perceptions, tensions and actions for change in the physical...
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Talking Design With Intel’s Todd Harple
We cordially invite you to Experientia’s inaugural “Talking Design” evening. On Wednesday May 8th, at 18.00, we are excited to have Intel’s Todd Harple speaking at the Experientia offices, followed by...
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Talking Design with Dan Hill
We are pleased to invite you to the second in the “Talking Design” lecture series with Dan Hill, CEO of Fabrica. On Thursday July 4th, designer and urbanist Dan Hill will speak about smart citizens,...
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“Savages”, an exhibition by Marguerite Kahrl in Torino
Now and then we use this blog to announce activities that are dear to us and deserve some promotion. Today it is the exhibition of artist Marguerite Kahrl, who is the wife of Experientia partner...
View ArticleBruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic on the home of the future
Jasmina Tesanovic (previously) and Bruce Sterling did a residency at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD (San Diego, USA), working with the students on design fiction and...
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The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit
The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit – How Cities Can Turn their Industrial Legacy into Infrastructure for Innovation and Growth by Matteo Robiglio Policy Paper, September 2016 The German Marshall Fund of the...
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Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, planning to embark in Turin, Italy
Today the print edition of the Italian newspaper Repubblica published an article with the title Nesta, i campioni dell’innovazione puntano su Torino. Below is the English translation (with...
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Nesta as an innovation move for Turin, Italy
A few months back we wrote about the ongoing negotiations between Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, and the [Italian Foundation] Compagnia di San Paolo to set up a Nesta Italia in Turin. These...
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Half-day event on service design innovation in Turin
(This page will be regularly updated to reflect minor programme changes) To Innovate through Service Design – Conference for Torino Design of the City From 10 to 16 October, the City of Turin will host...
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Don’t miss Experientia at Torino Design of the City
Torino Design of the City is nearly here! Experientia will of course be part of this exciting week (10-16 October) of events, meetings, workshops, exhibitions and guided tours about design, and we...
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Innovate through service design – The Innovation Center of Intesa Sanpaolo...
by Erin O’Loughlin – Photos: Naz Kazazoglu In Turin, you only need to tell your taxi driver “Take me to the skyscraper” to end up at the impressive Innovation Center of the Intesa Sanpaolo bank, rising...
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Impact through Design – Event in Turin, Italy
(Scroll down for English) Come può il design generare impatto? In continuità con il summit International Days of Deans and Experts: Impact Through Design (Barcellona, aprile 2018) Torino ospita il...
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Invito: DesAlps innovation workshop per le PMI del territorio piemontese
Experientia è lieta di invitare le piccole e medie imprese del territorio piemontese al: DesAlps Workshop #1: Il Design Thinking per le PMI Venerdì 18 maggio 2018 – dalle 9.00 alle 17.30 @ Rinascimenti...
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Invito: DesAlps design thinking workshop per la tua startup
Hai una startup? Hai mai pensato ai benefici che potrebbe trarre dal Design Thinking? Questa è l’opportunità per scoprirlo! DesAlps Workshop #2: Il Design Thinking per la tua startup! Giovedì 28...
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