VR Typography: Words for Peace – Equality. Nordic-Baltic Network of Art and Design Higher Education.
VR Typography: Words for Peace – Equality
A CIRRUS (Nordic-Baltic Network of Art and Design Higher Education) student mobility workshop.
Sunday 16 Feb – Friday 21 Feb 2025
Place:
University of Bergen (UiB)
Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
Bergen, Norway
We are looking for five CIRRUS students to participate in the workshop:
VR Typography: Words for Peace – Equality (3 ECTS)
The workshop explores the design of typography and the audience experience of reading text in a virtual environment. The topic of the workshop is Equality.
The workshop will introduce the basic principles of virtual reality for designers and how they apply the design of information and typography in a virtual environment. Concepts such as composition, interaction and audience perspective will be explored practically through designing and learning to build a simple prototype.
Students will learn the basics of Unity and how to design information for a VR environment. The aim of the workshop is to design and prototype a simple VR reading experience. Prior knowledge of 3D software is helpful, but not essential. Students will work in small groups. Because VR is still an emerging technology, good examples of information design and typography in virtual environments are scarce, so this is an opportunity to explore the future possibilities.
The applicants are expected to bring their own laptops to the workshop – if you have questions about this, you will get information from Tarja Nieminen when you are considering application.
More information from tarja.nieminen@aalto.fi.
The deadline for applications is 3.1.2024 at midnight and they should be sent to tarja.nieminen@aalto.fi.
Results will be communicated to all applicants on 8.1.2025.
Students will get a grant of 670 EUR for the workshop and a catered lunch on workshop days.
Workshop tutors (the IADT, Dublin, Ireland / Erasmus Staff Mobility):
Robert Griffin (BA (Hons), MSc, MSc) teaches at IADT and has been involved in all aspects of course design, teaching, promotion and assessment. He has expertise in ICT, UX/UI, Cyberpsychology, VR. He is currently researching increasing empathy towards the visually impaired using virtual reality. Rob is programme chair of the MSc in Cyberpsychology and has a special interest in Virtual Reality. He has been at the forefront of encouraging students to engage with emerging technology at IADT, championing Virtual Reality projects in the Institute as much as possible. Rob is very interested in seeing how VR can be adapted across the spectrum of traditional subjects. He wants to see filmmakers, model makers, computing students and psychologists getting to work together on VR projects to see what they make.
Dr Hilary Kenna is a lecturer in design & user experience (UX) at IADT. She has taught interaction design, graphic design and typography in the BA(hons) in Visual Communication for nearly 20 years. She currently teaches on the Masters in User Experience Design and the postgraduate Certificate in Design Thinking at IADT. Hilary has a PhD in Design Principles for Screen Typography from the University of Arts London. She designed the awarding winning app The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, which was the subject of her TedX talk, Words Made Usable. Hilary has led research projects in data visualisation and her work was granted two US design patents and commercially developed into a product. She has lectured about and published her work internationally.
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