Irene Posch, Hannah Perner-Wilson; Suyun “Sandra” Bae, Mary Etta West, Lee Jones, Aaron Chooi, Geert Roumen, Narjes Pourjafarian and Paul Strohmeier, Pia Obermaier, Stela Blagova, Joana Breyton, Anna Blumenkranz, Fiona Bell
The art of interaction implies its craft – our human ability to produce quality workmanship that makes the experience of interacting with technology artful. What is quality workmanship? It is knowledge of materials that comes from time spent in conversation with them. An attention to listen to their qualities, and to explore together the potentials of their material properties and our human properties. It is also increasingly relevant that our material processes consider not only the immediate material at hand, but their origins and the implications of their entanglements with processes of life on earth.
To highlight the importance of the skilled craftsmanship that makes new technologies truly artful, the Student Design Challenge at TEI 2021 collects and shares tangible, embedded, and embodied craftsmanship.