Caroline Hummels has a background in Industrial Design Engineering, is full professor Design & Theory for Transformative Qualities at the department of Industrial Design (ID) and heading the Designing Quality in Interaction group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her activities concentrate on developing frameworks, tools and concepts to support designing towards transformation. Her activities address e.g. aesthetic interaction, craftsmanship,skills, phenomenology, embodied sensemaking, participatory health and wellbeing, multi-stakeholder cooperation and innovation.

»We are able to engage with the world, develop skills while acting in the world, and perceive the world in terms of what we can do with it. To cope skilfully in the world from day to day, we do not need a mental representation of our goals; our body is simply solicited by the situation to find the right balance so as to gain a maximum grip on the situation.

What are the implication for Design and Human Computer Interaction when taking embodiment and skilful coping as a starting point? Will we design differently and create other systems, environments, products, services, media, etc.? Will we collaborate differently, research differently or prefer other ways of learning? Will we need other supporting methods, processes, techniques and tools? I will show a variety of design projects to explain the theory and implications of designing for embodiment and skilful coping.«

About »bauhausinteraction.colloquium«:
The Bauhausinteraction Colloquium is a new interdisciplinary colloquium series at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar which is to address issues between technology and arts+design and the humanities. This colloquium is organised by different disciplines at the Bauhaus-Universität, across media-informatics (applied computer sciences), media-design, media arts and product + interaction design.
The talks take place on Monday evenings. All talks are in english. In design, human–computer interaction, and software development, interaction design is »about shaping digital things for people’s use«, and alternately defined as the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.

Beyond an interest in the mere form, interaction design has its main focus on human behavior and the interplay between human actions and technology. Coming from different disciplines in this colloquium we explore the central questions: Do we speak a common laguage? Are we ready for interdisciplinary dialogues and are we prepared for upcoming transdisciplinary challenges? Through a series of lectures and workshops on interaction design and related topics. A selection of internationally renowned speakers will give insights into their work, current developments and discussions. The colloquium provides a forum for exchange of ideas, impulses for inspiration and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Talk:

Date:
Monday, 3 November 2014 
7 p.m.

Location:
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Oberlichtsaal/main building 
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
99423 Weimar

For further information please check » http://bauhausinteraction.org/colloquium/