Event Name  -  This Happened
Admission  -  Free
Category  -  Talks, Lectures & Conferences
Venue  -  Shoreditch Town Hall
Event Website  -  This Happened
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This Happened is a series of events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. Having ideas is easier than making them happen. This Happened delves into projects that exist today, how their concepts and production process can help inform future work. Interaction design companies are often too closed off to the outside. The event encourages people to be more open in their methods and ideas. The aim is to have a mix of established practitioners, commercial companies and students. This Happens encourages the perspectives from the other side of the fence, so will also be inviting curators and commissioners of work to give presentations.

Entry from 7:20, presentations start 7.45.

Alexander Grunsteidl
Alexander Grunsteidl set up Digital Wellbeing Labs to bridge the last mile between the producers and the consumers of digital products and services. The aim is to develop and share a better understanding of how we can shape the interfaces between physical, brick-and-mortar retail spaces and online environments. Interfaces which are better suited to exchange information about digital products and services, and support transactions, driven by the changing requirements with the emergence of the internet. He will share some insights gained from running the Digital Wellbeing Showroom launched during the 2006 London Design Festival; the pilot for a new kind of retail environment for digital lifestyle products.

Jenhui Liao
Jenhui Liao, born in 1982 in Taiwan, graduated from the Royal college of Art, London, in 2009. Jenhui works on the connections of humankind and machine. By creating experimental objects to represent the relationship between men and man-made machinery, he investigates the machine like complex of the Human mind. The Self-Portrait Machine, made in 2009, is a miniature of his understanding about how one's self-identity been produced.

Dotmancando
Dotmancando is an interaction designer based in London. The ideas behind his works revolve around the psychological aspect of control. CoinFlipper is a decision making tool. CoinFlipper is 99.99% controllable, yet deliberately random. After the long calibrating procedure, the users can predict the result of coin flipping by adjusting the angle and power of CoinFlipper. Decision-making is no longer in the hands of fate or randomness, but in the true intentions of the users.

Shajay Bhooshan
Shajay Bhooshan is a architectural researcher working at Zaha Hadid Architects and a course tutor at the AA School of Architecture. The work of the research group focuses on the potentials of cross-insemination between Architecture and the Computer Graphics industry. He will present the experience gained from a recent project that attempted to operate within such interstices.