Hi Milan, I had never considered a more generalist approach. It sounds like it is definitely worth investigating. Thanks very much for your advice and for the links.
Cheers, Martin On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Milan Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > if you are considering more "generalist" schools in Europe, you might want > to take a look at the school where I graduated: > http://design.fh-duesseldorf.de. They use a mixed approach, in essence > very much design studio work on a broad range of subjects and media (your > choice every semester), and specialist courses in things like interaction, > motion, exhibition, editorial, product etc. > > I know some people who did the course in Cologne, I think that also would > be a good choice. If you have the possibility I would certainly take the > time and spend a visit before you decide, and as far as I know all design > schools in Germany require a "Mappe" and/or test. I think the skandinavian > schools have a much more elaborate vision on IxD in particular, but maybe > with your background some insights in comm & industrial, and the long > history of a traditional design school would actually help even more to > make the transition. > > Some other schools for you in Europe: > - FH Potsdam, they have a large Interface Design department > http://design.fh-potsdam.de/ > - ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris, industrial with a lot of experimental > interaction design http://www.ensci.com/ > - ENSAD in Paris, focused on Comm/Media, but very interesting highly > specialised doctorate-level degrees http://www.ensad.fr > - HS Madgeburg, IxD also more Industrial oriented > > http://www.hs-magdeburg.de/engl/studium/s-studienangebot/m_interactiondesign/ > - HGKz Zurich http://master.design.zhdk.ch/en/ > > In general, I recommend looking at their final and course-related works, > exhibitions, projects, research publications, websites/blogs etc, and not > such much concentrate on how they name what they do - in the old world IxD > is arriving very slowly, but they may be great even if they don't know > what the things they do are called like (: > > milan > -- > ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || > milan guenther * interaction design > p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
