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▶▼ 2011 (31)

Low2No Camp: entrepreneurial ideas to activate Low2No vision

Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models for a carbon neutral building block before the buildings stand? Thirty Finnish entrepreneurs came together last Tuesday (20 September 2011) in Helsinki to present innovative business and service models for a carbon neutral [...]

Low2No project wins Holcim acknowledgement prize

Medium rise timber office building in low-to-no carbon emissions district, Helsinki, Finland, wins Holcim acknowledgement award for sustainable construction. The Low2No design team led by Sauerbruch-Hutton, Arup and Experientia were recognized for the multi-story timber construction headquarter for Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. The office and incubator building “is part of an inner-city building complex [...]

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 project won the Italian National Prize for Service Innovation. e-Periscope is the online economic review of the Italian Piedmont Region, and has featured Mark before, as [...]

Experientia teams with Innovhub, to make its services available to Milan SMEs at 50% of the cost

Innovhub, the innovation agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, has selected the international user experience design consultancy Experientia to help Milan-based SMEs to innovate, using the most advanced processes in web and industrial design. The goal of Innovhub is to promote innovation and competitiveness for Milan-based small-to-medium sized enterprises, by encouraging innovative processes and [...]

Studying interaction design in Switzerland

A new master in interaction design will start in September in Switzerland — with some teaching support from Experientia — and a few places are still available. The MAS in Interaction design at the University of the Applied Sciences and the Arts of Southern Switzerland is a master that combines design, new media, robotics, smart [...]

Achieving long-term sustainability at a Belgian expo centre

A road(map) to sustainability: How an Expo centre can become low-impact The Event project, funded by Flanders In Shape, a Flemish design promotion agency, created a framework for the Kortrijk Xpo centre to become the most environmentally sustainable trade fair and congress complex in Belgium by 2020 and a top five player in Europe. Experientia [...]

Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services

Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services, sponsored by the Italian government and Confcommercio. The President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, awards the prize. Rome, Tuesday 14 June 2011 Today, the president of the Italian republic, Giorgio Napolitano, awarded Experientia srl with the prestigious National Prize for Innovation in Services, for their project [...]

Experientia vince il Premio Nazionale per l’Innovazione nei Servizi

Experientia vince la terza edizione del Premio Nazionale per l’Innovazione nei Servizi, istituito dal Governo Italiano e Confcommercio-Imprese per l’Italia. Il Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano consegna il premio. Roma, martedì 14 giugno 2011 Oggi il Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Giorgio Napolitano ha insignito Experientia Srl del prestigioso Premio Nazionale per l’Innovazione nei Servizi per [...]

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces conference

DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan at the end of this month, with leading roles for two Experientia partners: Mark Vanderbeeken will act as co-chair of the user-centred design track while Jan-Christoph Zoels will be part of a roundtable discussion. The conference will take place [...]

Growing Fredericia

Arup, Effekt and Experientia win second price in parallel urban renewal competition in Fredericia, Denmark The FredriciaC jury announced the results of an ambitious urban renewal project in Fredericia, Denmark, as the city seeks to transform itself from an industrialised port town into a high-quality urban environment. Experientia was part of Team Arup, which took [...]

Socially responsible design – more relevant than ever

Jan-Christoph Zoels, Experientia’s design director, took part in an interesting discussion on socially responsible design for the “Design matters” section of this month’s frieze magazine, a leading magazine on contemporary art and culture. The roundtable discussion was led by Eugenia Bell, design editor of frieze, and debated the largely unresolved relationship between design and social [...]

Experientia presentation at Fuorisalone, Milan

Irene Cassarino, Experientia’s senior open innovation expert, will be speaking on Designing for Sustainable Change at the Hub Milan on Friday, as part of the Hub’s Inspirational Conversations series at this year’s Fuorisalone in Milan. The conversations are part of a wider event, entitled Designing Innovation: Ideas, works and story tales, that involves workshops, exhibitions, [...]

Free Experientia backgrounder on EU’s new, more holistic innovation policy

Major emphasis on user-centred design, open innovation and social innovation in new EU innovation strategy On 6 October 2010, the European Commission adopted the “Innovation Union“, a strategic approach to innovation, which is to become a main tool to reach the Europe 2020 targets that will underpin the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth the Europe [...]

Experientia partner on EDF Sustainable Design Challenge jury

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken has been invited to be a member of the technical committee for the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge: Changing energy together for better living. The technical committee will analyse the submitted projects from a technical point of view and give recommendations to the Jury select the winning projects, which will be showcased [...]

$Experientia intern wins Gore-tex and La Sportiva boot design challenge$

Experientia intern wins Gore-tex and La Sportiva boot design challenge

Experientia intern Gina Taha has just been announced a winner in the GORE-TEX® Experience Tour project “Design your very own trekking boots” with the GORE-TEX® brand and La Sportiva. Gina’s design (graphic) was chosen from a short-list of ten, and will now be produced at the La Sportiva factory. Innovations in Gina’s design include extra [...]

Experientia intern wins UNICEF 2010 INDEX design challenge

Experientia intern, Ane Eguiguren, together with her team partner François Verez, has been announced the winner of the INDEX: Design Challenge 2010. The UNICEF challenge encouraged young designers to envision solutions to education in developing countries. UNICEF in collaboration with the Danish not-for-profit organization INDEX launched the challenge in June 2010, and more than 1000 [...]

Repost: Reflections on the LIFT conference 2011

Two weeks ago, Core77 published my review of the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. In the interest of completeness, I also publish it here: All images by Ivo Näpflin, courtesy of LIFT Conference – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic A few weeks ago I was, together with about 1000 other people, in Geneva, Switzerland, to [...]

Experientia partner jury lead at Core77 Design Awards

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be one of 15 international Jury Captains for the inaugural year of the Core77 Design Awards. The Core77 Design Awards which have just been launched is positioned as “a global design award aimed at recognizing and celebrating design excellence, enterprise and intent.” “Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, [...]

Sitra’s Marco Steinberg on Low2No project

Last week Experientia participated in Ecobuild 2011 (London, UK) to showcase its work in user-centred sustainable design for the built environment, and in particular its experience of Low2No, a major low-to-no carbon impact development in Helsinki Harbour, Finland. The Low2No project is run by Sitra, the Finnish innovation fund, and Marco Steinberg, Sitra’s head of [...]

Discussing ethnography at University College London

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be giving a talk tomorrow at 6 pm, as a part of the Digital Anthropology MSc course at University College London (UCL). The “Anthropology in the Professional World” section of the course features talks from well-known practitioners in the field. Mark will speak about the challenges inherent in Experientia’s research [...]

Experientia at Ecobuild 2011 in London

Experientia will be taking part at Ecobuild 2011, March 1-3, in London, UK. Ecobuild is the world’s largest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, and with more than 600 speakers, 1300 exhibitors, one of the most influential conferences in the sector. Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, has extensive experience in innovative [...]

Documentary highlights how Programma 101 put people first

The upcoming documentary Programma 101 – Memory of the Future by Alessandro Bernard and Paolo Ceretto, celebrates Olivetti’s invention of the first personal desktop computer, back in 1965, and the wide implications it has had since. Video reflections by Bruce Sterling, Massimo Banzi (of the Arduino), Mario Bellini and others are already online. When Italian [...]

Experientia at Milan service design conference

Experientia will present its expertise in service design next week, at a conference specially dedicated to raising the profile of service design as a discipline. In an example of the vital role that services play in our economies, this year the prestigious Design Index prize offered by the Italian Design Association ADI (Associazione per il [...]

Latest developments on Low2No – the low carbon block in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki

A team of international and Finnish designers, including Experientia, announced the current status and latest developments of the Low2No project today, at a sustainable urban development conference organised by Sitra, the Finnish innovation fund. In particular, the block’s innovative retail strategy and new district heating agreement were showcased. The retail strategy offers a unique mixed [...]

Experientia selected for second stage FredericiaC competition in Denmark

A consortium made up of Arup, EFFEKT, Experientia, and consultants from NCC Management Group, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KA), Conceptura, and Ars Electronica Linz GmbH (AEC),* has been announced as one of four finalists in the FredericiaC competition, to design a new sustainable urban space for the Danish city of Fredericia, which [...]

SEE conference looks at Europe’s design future

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be heading to his home country of Belgium in March 2011, to chair the SEE conference on integrating design into regional and national policies. The SEE project has been running since 2008, and has involved a series of workshops with policy-makers on themes such as design in innovation policy, design [...]

Experientia trademarked its name

When Experientia’s four partners decided to start a business back in 2005, one of the important discussions then was about the name. After brainstorming on the philosophy, concepts and strategies that would underlie the business, Experientia president Michele Visciola came up with “Experientia”, with inspiration striking him in the Milano Centrale train station on the [...]

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 the unified country. The nine months of exhibitions and events, under the overarching theme of “Esperienza Italia” (“The Italian Experience”), will look [...]

Experientia and Accenture sign memorandum of understanding

Experientia and Accenture are looking at future project opportunities together, after signing a memorandum of understanding this month. The two companies have previously matched their skill sets on a project involving user research, prototyping and usability testing, with the client congratulating the team on the outstanding quality of the final results. At Experientia, we believe [...]

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at workshop on smart living

On Thursday 3 February, Experientia senior partner in charge of user experience design, Jan-Christoph Zoels, will speak at the TouchHouse. Smart living – Communicating surfaces workshop at the Aedes Network Campus Berlin (ANCB). The opportunity mapping workshop, part of the ANCB Metropolitan Technologies Programme, focuses on the interface between building control, spatial and design implications, [...]

Experientia part of EPIC 2011

The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) has become the premier international forum for bringing together academics, computer scientists, designers, policy makers, social scientists, marketers and other professionals interested in the ongoing development of the field of applied ethnographic research and practice. The call for contributions to the 2011 conference is now open, seeking original, [...]

▶▼ 2010 (16)

Experientia collaborates with top Korean university

Experientia, the international user experience design consultancy, has signed a five-year research and education collaboration agreement with the Design and Human Engineering School (DHE) of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) – Korea’s new top university – in a quest to change the way that design is seen and practiced in Korea. [...]

Experientia’s framework for behavioural change towards sustainable lifestyles

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently became one of Canvas8’s newest Thought Leaders, lending his insights and knowledge to the site’s growing archives of articles and interviews on cultural global trends. Canvas8 draws on the knowledge of recognised industry thought leaders to offer expert insight into attitudes and behaviour. They encourage a deeper understanding of people [...]

Two Experientia presentations in Busan, South Korea

Last week, Experientia was in Busan, South Korea, at the invitation of the Busan Design Center. As part of its first Design Week, the Center organised two international conferences: one – the Busan International Design Congress – had “Digital Energy” as its main theme and was strongly inspired by the user experience discourse; the other [...]

Michele Visciola on online healthcare information

Michele Visciola, Experientia partner, gave a talk this week on online healthcare information at the 16th IFHRO (International Federation of Health Records Organizations) Congress in Milan, Italy. The International Federation of Health Records Organizations (IFHRO) serves as a forum for the exchange of information relating to health records, education of medical record personnel, and information [...]

Experientia supporting Flemish applied research on mobility and sustainability

Experientia is excited to be working on two applied research projects for Flanders InShape, a Flemish design promotion agency that supports and advises small and mid-size companies in Flanders, Belgium on matters related to product development and design. The ASSIST project, in collaboration with Enthoven Associates, is focused on improving mobility and communications for people [...]

Experientia to redesign United Nations website

Experientia, the international experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy, will be designing the new website of the training arm of the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation (ILO). The International Training Centre of the ILO is an advanced training institute located in Turin, that sits at the forefront of strengthening the capacities, capabilities and competencies [...]

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 our website, expanded our offices to include a new wing, and we keep on finding talented and exciting people to work with. We’ve [...]

Design Of The Other Things

Experientia participates in the exhibition “Design Of The Other Things” at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. Stefano Maffei is the curator of the exhibition, which explores the ways in which the world of design is changing, becoming transversal and interfacing increasingly with other fields, such as art, technology, management, fashion and scientific research. The [...]

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 dynamic and enthusiastic team, based in Torino, Italy, includes experts in strategy, design, usability, communications, cognitive and social psychology, ethnographic and user research, information architecture, interaction design and information [...]

Putting People First content partner of Appliance Design

Putting People First has become a content partner of Appliance Design, the site of the US-based magazine of the same name that caters to designers and engineers in the global, commercial and medical appliance/durable goods industry. The partnership is not financial. Putting People First simply selects blog posts that could fit the audience of the [...]

€60m low carbon building project in Helsinki

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund and development partners, SRV and VVO today announce a €60m investment for a low carbon housing and commercial building complex in Helsinki. Work on the development will begin immediately, with completion scheduled for the end of 2012. Through the project, Sitra aims to generate research and evidence that will inform [...]

Experientia’s Vimeo and YouTube channels

Experientia has uploaded all its publicly available videos on specially created Vimeo and YouTube channels. In addition to high-def project videos, you can also find videos of a few lectures and presentations. vimeo.com/channels/experientia youtube.com/experientiasrl

Experientia’s brand new website experience

Over the last five years experience design consultancy Experientia has grown from new beginnings to a vibrant company with a large portfolio. To showcase our latest projects, ideas and methodologies, we have redesigned our website – www.experientia.com – giving it a fresh look, and creating a brand new experience for the viewer. The site follows [...]

Conversations in a weekend village — Interaction10 impressions

Written by Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels. Interaction10 is over. Four days of presentations, workshops, games, installations stimulated vivid exchanges of ideas and reflections on the changing landscape of interaction design. Hosted in beautiful downtown Savannah by the international Interaction Design Association and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the conference set the stage for [...]

Experientia article on emerging markets research in Interfaces Magazine

The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains a lengthy article on an emerging market research project Experientia conducted for Vodafone Global. Many, many thanks to Anxo Cereijo-Roibas of Vodafone, and Erin O’Loughlin and Laura Polazzi of Experientia. Engaging developing [...]

A thank you to our web service provider Aventure Host

On December 31st 2009 we finished the process of moving our websites and our mail services to Italy. Since the beginning of our company, we had hosted our websites and mail with Aventure Host, a United Kingdom based webhosting company, that has provided us with excellent service allowing our company to grow from an idea [...]

▶▼ 2009 (3)