| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 22.01.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Ifi, Store Auditorium? | Introduction to Information Design? | Simply said, information design is conscious creation and use of information. As an academic subject, information design spans a broad variety of interests, ranging from multimedia web design tools to fundamental questions about knowledge and consciousness.? |
| 22.01.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Ifi, Store Auditorium? | Introduction to Information Design Course? | Our Information Design course provides a flexible and exploratory learning environment where students can learn according to personal needs and interests. Students learn in part by co-designing the course and the learning resources.? |
| 29.01.2006 | Graham Moore, Director of Networked Planet Limited and Editor XTM 1.0? | Ifi, Store Auditorium? | Introduction to Topic Maps ? | Topic Maps allow us to organize and find information on the Web. They also serve as foundation for the flexible learning approach used in our course. After introducing Topic Maps this lecture will focus on their use in education and knowledge management.? |
| 05.02.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Wikipedia, Mediawiki and Web 2.0? | We use the course Mediawiki to manage the learning resources. This lecture is an introduction to the relevant ideas and software. Since we will be showing videos which are already on the web, this lecture will not be filmed.? |
| 12.02.2007 | Rolf Guescini and Fredrik Eive Refsli? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Information Design Tools - a Survey? | One of the goals of the Information Design Course is to provide an overview of main information design technical tools, such as the Photoshop, the Dreamweaver and the XML. Lectures covering specific tools have already been filmed and they will be available online as learning resources. This lecture will provide an overview of those tools.? |
| 19.02.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Order Design? | Information overload puts the very usefulness of information into question. Polyscopic structuring of information is offered as a way to solution. ? |
| 26.02.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Truth Design? | The post-modern relativism discloses our inability to create shared 'truth' (what we as society jointly believe in). Probably the most exciting and at the same time most fundamental novelty brought by information design is that it allows us to create solid, scientific-like facts about questions of common interest, even when those questions are far beyond the scope of traditional sciences.? |
| 05.03.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Meaning Design? | It is now well known that we are not discovering but creating our picture of reality. In information design we undertake to create the reality picture which can best orient our actions. Like the view from the top of a mountain, the designed information can give us a clear vision and show us where we need to go.? |
| 12.03.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi ? | Freedom Design? | In a society which is based on 'free choice', information has the power to both subordinate us to extraneous interests and to liberate us from them. In what ways can information design help us harness the power of information? First of all by giving us a correct idea or perspective of information, which shows how information really affects us. Second, by giving us a correct perspective of power, which accounts for the pervasive role of information. And finally, by basing information creation and use on a written convention or methodology, which makes information a part of the 'social contract'. ? |
| 19.03.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium? | Information Design Dialog? | The challenging questions of the Information Design Course are taken up in a dialog, first in smaller groups and then in plenum. Everyone is invited to contribute questions and ideas.? |
| 02.04.2007 | EASTER HOLIDAY? | ? | NO LECTURE? | ? |
| 09.04.2007 | EASTER HOLIDAY? | ? | NO LECTURE? | ? |
| 16.04.2007 | ?ystein Rakkenes, journalist. Formerly 18 years with NRK radio and TV, ?ystein is now a freelance journalist and documentary film maker, author of two books, media portraits of Nelson Mandela, Dhalai Lama and Kiran Bedi, advisor for Radio Free Asia, Dharmsala, First Prize winner on last year's Atlanta Indo-American Film Festival...? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | From Public Service to Infotainment? | How is it to be a digital nomad? An individual in the ongoing stream of news and views? To be a journalist, radioman, film maker and writer in the age of information? ?ystein Rakkenes has experienced being a journalist in the Norwegian Broadcasting before and after the commercial media was introduced to the norwegian public. Today he is working as a freelancer. Looking back on twenty years in the media he will share experience, examples and views on being in the daily stream of information. In this lecture ?ystein will also take you back stage and show you how he weaves important messages into pictures and stories. ? |
| 23.04.2007 | Peter S. Gulbrandsen, Chief Experience Architect, Zest (consulting business).? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Experience Design? | Information is not only facts, but, just as much, experience. What sort of thinking is involved in creating memorable experiences? Peter Gulbrandsen is one of Norway's most experienced experience designers. He has worked on projects like the creation of the Norwegian exhibition at the Epcot Center (Disney World, Florida), the Norwegian Pavillion at World Expo in Lisboa and Hannover and, recently, as the creative director for developing the Norwegian coastal fortresses (Nasjonale Festningsverk) to become attractive destinations for the public. He is a engaged supporter of The Experience Economy and is passionate about the communication of knowledge through experiences.? |
| 30.04.2007 | Stian Danenbarger, consultant, Bouvet A.S.? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Web 2.0 Platforms - an Overview? | The Web is now brimming with web services of various kinds: Flickr, Del.icio.us, Google Maps and many others. They allow us to compose new applications easily, by combining existing services. They also give us ideas for creating new web applications and businesses. This lecture will provide an overview and a demonstration of Web 2.0 services.? |
| 07.05.2007 | Dino Karabeg? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Through the Mirror? | 'The Mirror' is used in this lecture as a metaphorical trapdoor to information desigh. When we (metaphorically speaking) see ourselves in a mirror in an academic setting, we understand that we are not objective observers of the world but responsible participants in it. We can then 'go through the Mirror' to another academic reality, where we consciously decide what we do as academics. This final lecture will fulfill several purposes: serve as survey, show possibilities for future work, and present an example of designed information, which shows how a complex situation can be made accessible by a simple visual metaphor.? |
| 14.05.2007 | Student project groups ? | Store Auditorium, Ifi ? | Student Project Presentations ? | Watching the project presentations at the end of the term is a true dessert - a multifaceted learning experience and a source of inspiration. ? |
| 21.05.2006 | Student project groups? | Store Auditorium, Ifi? | Student Project Presentations? | Watching the project presentations at the end of the term is a true dessert - a multifaceted learning experience and a source of inspiration. ? |
| 28.05.2007 | Holiday? | Everywhere...? | ? | ? |
Teaching plan
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