Kino phone: location, broadcast and autonomy.

A new kind of social space is created out of the transmission and reception of data between mobile phone users. A private communicational space arising from the city’s striated space, a social space born out of a new telecommunications technology. This virtual but real communicational space can be thought as a subversive space, a decentralised network where users generate and exchange their own data, taking pictures, making phone calls, accessing the Net. This paper is exploring the creation and appropriation of this space by its users and investigates broadcasting models where people are be able to send their text and other multi-media elements and display them onto designated local public screens

How Irish design consultancies align with Ireland’s Innovation 2020 priorities: a preliminary study

peer-reviewedThe Government of Ireland has positioned design as integral to the innovation landscape. In particular, it encourages innovations from designers that align with six thematic areas identified in the Innovation 2020 report. Those areas are health & medical, information & technology communications (ITC), food, energy, manufacturing & materials and service & business processes. However, research is yet to show the current contribution of design consultancies and their project outcomes categorised within these six priority thematic areas. This paper presents empirical findings on a review of 571 projects advertised on the websites of 26 design consultancies in Ireland. It shows that just under half of the reviewed design projects fall within the thematic project areas. Furthermore, this paper shows the differences between three design disciplines (product design, user-experience design and branding design) and their contribution of projects to each thematic area. The results of this empirical study are relevant and of use to design practitioners, clients and policy makers. For designers, this research identifies opportunities for new business and innovation within the Government of Ireland key thematic areas. For design clients, this research offers opportunities to seek input from relevant design disciplines according to the thematic alignment of their project. For policy makers, this research offers context of the six key thematic areas within the design disciplines in Ireland. Lastly, the results of this research suggest that across the disciplines of product, user-experience and branding design, preferred priority themes are evident

The Mars project : Friday 9 May - Friday 30 May : Phillip Allan, Steve Cox, Linda Erceg, Carolyn Eskdale, Kellyann Geurts, Megan Macpherson, Julia Powles, Loretta Quinn, Simon Stephenson, Natasha Vincent, Peter Westwood, Deborah Williams.

Curator/Coordinator Louiseann Zahra-King

Diagram : David Cross [NZ], Emma Febvre-Richards [NZ], Jenny Gillam [NZ], Maddie Leach [NZ], Simon Morris [NZ], Karin Van Roosmalen [NZ]

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Diagram held at Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, 29th April - 19 May 2011.Six New Zealand-based artists engage with the idea of diagram as a generative tool. Diagram considers the diagrammatic as a key modality, not simply for two-dimensional art forms, but also sculpture, video and performance-based practices. -- Gallery website.;"... features work by Massey University School of Art and Design staff ... first shown at the Engine Room gallery at Massey University, Wellington in 2010 ... This second version of the exhibition at RMIT's Project Space encompasses changes and shifts to the works and content of the first iteration." -- P. [7-8];Curated by Charlotte Huddleston Essay: Exploded view by Charlotte Huddleston.Includes bibliographical references

Antipodean bestiary : Jacqui Stockdale, Julia Silvester, Heather Shimmen, Geoffrey Ricardo, James Morrison, Danie Mellor, Rew Hanks, Rona Green, Marian Drew, Annette Cook

Catalogue of an exhibition held from 7 May - 25 May 2007Curator, Jazmina Cininas

Digital remembering

Catalogue of an exhibition held at RMIT University Project Space/Spare Room, 14 March - 4 April, 2008.Essay: Diane Charleson ; Curator: Diane Charleson.Artists: Pauline Anastasiou ... [et al.].Includes bibliographical references