Dundee School of Design Degree Show

Together with Jayne, I was recently invited to attend a meeting on design(s) for counterterrorism at the School of Design at Dundee. While there I had not only a chance to meet lots of interesting people but was also able to explore the impressive degree show that they had put on for all their degrees.

There were a couple of tabletop and interactive surface systems, some fairly standard (i.e. based on Reactivision or FTIR) while some others were more innovative (at least from a technical perspective):

• 4track - a tabletop system for collaborative music making (link)
  
  This is basically a simplified version of Reactable, a bit more ludic than functional.


• absent reminders - a very beautiful mirror display using text messages (link)


• fable - an interactive kitchen table for families to share photos and stories (link)
  
  I liked the simple yet effective tracking, which was done using Processing and IR-reflective foil

There were too many projects to mention them all here. The one that I thought really stood out was the the bone project, which explores different ways to use (bovine) bones. There were examples of jewellery, containers, tiles and casings made of this material, which felt and looked quite good (and this is coming from a vegetarian).