We are in the last week of accepting participants to the COST-SID Product Sound Design Summer School at the Aalto Design Factory, Espoo, Finland, August 23-26, 2010. Could you please distribute the pointers to your info boards, mailing lists, networks, and encourage your students or collaborators to apply?

Application DL: 21.6.2010 (soon)

more info can be found at

• http://trac.sme-ccppd.org/SID/wiki/SIDTrainingSchoolProductSoundDesign201008
• mirror: http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~cerkut/temp/SummerSchool/

briefly,

We are organizing an international Sonic Interaction Design training summer school in collaboration with COST-SID action and Aalto University / Design Factory. Summer school will take place between 23rd and 26th August 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. The training school will focus on product sound design methods in Product Design & Development context.

Learning outcomes,

the participants will be able to • use effective strategies for concept generation and communication regarding the usage of sound in future products, • prototype and evaluate an interactive sonic product according to a scenario given by the partnering companies HipUI and Powerkiss • earn 2 ECTS from the Aalto University Application, ( no registration fee, DL: 21.6.2010 )

The applicants should send, • a CV, • a letter of motivation that clearly indicates the applicant's motivation, previous experience with interactive product sound design, and expectations from this training activity, • an official transcript of completed and remaining studies,

Best,

Koray

M.Koray Tahiroğlu Media Lab, Aalto University, School of Art and Design http://mlab.taik.fi/~korayt tel: +358 45 233 6272

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