First day @ CIID

Today was the first day at CIID. The curriculum was presented. There will be courses lead by people like Patric Kochlik and Dennis Paul (the-product.org), Massimo Banzi (tinker.it) and Shawn Allen (stamen.com), just to name a few.

What I like most is that we are focusing on doing things instead of just talking or learning how to do them. So there will be a lot of prototyping and working with the industry (Intel, Nokia and many others).

There also was some time to get to know each other. As you can see on the photo there are people from all around. Each of them has very different background so there are programmers, interaction designers, graphics designers but also architects and furniture designers. Diversity and mix of many different disciplines is important in our field (I mean interaction design of course. )

It will be very interesting year and there are a lot of cool things going to happen.