Social Design Talk 14: Shaping Technology with Design- Digital Experiences for Global Complexity
In Collaboration with Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital, the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Date and Time: Thursday 30 Jan 2014, 7pm
Venue: Hochauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A
Speaker: Vinay Venkatraman
Respondent: Corinna Gardner
Free admission, all welcome.
Vinay Venkatraman trained as a product & interaction designer in India and Italy and is one of the co-founders of CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. His talk will focus on recent research on ‘Frugal Digital‘ projects, involving methods and practices around creating digital solutions in low resource settings like that of developing economies. He also intends to talk about issues around Big Data in this context as his latest startup Leapcraft (http://www.leapcraft.dk) builds extensively on the emerging potential of big data driven innovation.
Free admission, all welcome.
Corinna Gardner is Curator of Contemporary Product Design at V&A.