Single ticket: €13/10
Combi ticket (all lectures): €24 (only presale)
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Jussi Ängeslevä (FI)
Professor Jussi Ängeslevä is a designer, an artist and an educator. With home base at the Berlin University of the Arts and Royal college of Arts in London, but lecturing around the planet, he is actively involved in the ever expanding field of new media, working with digital materiality and interaction design. In parallel to the academic work, he is the Vice Creative Director of ART+COM studios, where his work in public art commissions, exhibitions and installations are consistently yielding international recognition.
His independent works have been awarded by institutions such as Royal Society of Arts, NESTA, Art Directors Club of Europe, D&AD, Ars Electronica and ZKM. Over the years he has served in numerous international art and design juries, academic chairs and boards. Throughout his career his focus has always been intentionally in between fields: combining understanding of visual, physical and interaction design with algorithmic, electronic and mechatronic knowledge to create innovative and elegant experiences.His design ethos is leveraging hardware, software, physical and graphic design in the search for elegance in highly specific solutions, where the meaning of a work is inseparable from the medium communicating it. -
Matt Jephcote (UK) – Principal Designer, City ID
City ID develop unique design, information and wayfinding solutions to integrate people, movement and places.
City ID’s approach is to work openly and collaboratively with clients, design partners and project stakeholders. The team listen, question and analyse to build a better understanding of cities and places. Skills are drawn from a range of specialisms including urban design, transport planning, project management, environmental psychology, information design and place branding. Matt is an experienced graphic and information designer specialising in information design. Matt oversees all stages of the design process from design conceptualisation, to design evolution through to production and artworking. Matt has contributed to designing wayfinding and transport information systems for Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Legible London – Richmond and Twickenham, Masdar City Abu Dhabi, Newcastle, New York City, Olympic Fringe Wayfinding Strategy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and Southampton.
Matt has recently been based in Russia, leading the design team in the development of a multi-modal wayfinding system for Moscow. The primary aim of the project is to improve peoples’ experience of Moscow by providing a consistent information system for citizens, businesses and international visitors, in Russian and English, across all modes of transport.