The ability to communicate well is one of the most important factors in business. You could be the best designer in the world, but if you’re unable to communicate with clients and promote your services, your potential is limited. Our everyday lives at ITD involve a great deal of talking. This means talking to people…
In November 2015 the What’s Next? organised the Conference of Creative Industries in Lithuania. The conference, which took place over two days in November 2015, focused on the future thinkers – the educators of the new generation. They shared lessons on how to use tools such as design, storytelling, robots (and even food) to solve…
The 3rd East Doc Platform (EDP), organised by the Institute of Documentary Film, is the largest Central and East European documentary event and will take place in Prague in March 2014. It is the meeting point for 120 East European filmmakers and producers seeking creative, financial and distribution support, and more than 70 key international festival programmers, commissioning…
We all think television makes children stupid. However, since their very early age, they actively indulge in film-viewing. While growing up, they are attracted to various types of formal features that change with age in type and difficulty. When chosen thoughtfully by the author or mentor ,these “forms” aid a child’s and adolescent’s comprehension of…
Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group who explore the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms and co runs the ‘Unknown Fields Division’, a nomadic studio that travels on expeditions to the ends of the…
What is transmedia? The secret will be revealed at the 16th Festival of Slovenian Film. Building online story worlds – Transmedia Design Workshop At the workshop, we’ll look at the options for designing immersive story worlds for a multichannel generation. Based on four selected projects, we will design transmedia worlds. We’ll discuss the topics such…
This summer, a multidisciplinary research community will meet in Split, Croatia, to work on the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments. Young professionals from various fields will be divided in 4 groups. Led by top experts, they will identify weak experiences in the local environment and question them through design. A critical design methodology…