The place where I study is called K3. Konst Kultur och Komunication (School of Arts and Communication) and the masters is pretty old,  for the interaction design field: It began on 1998.

This interaction Design Master is based on projects. We have six different topics to explore during the first year.

• Mobile Computing
• Physical Computing
• Place-Specific Computing
• Massmedia and Interactive Media
• Critical Design
• Individual Project

Several of our projects involve cooperation with external partners, whether it’s a company or maybe an ongoing research project at K3. In this first project we work with TAT and we’ll collaborate with LivingLabs or “BluePromo”

The workload strongly depends on yourself. In Spain I used to spend 4-6 hours a day in lectures and about 2-3 in labs. Here is different because we’re studying design, not engineering but the fact is that  we only have approx 15 lectures/workshop hours during the week. The rest of time we are in our studio working on our own. It seems quite common in Swedish education that students have so much free time, so they need to take care of their own career.

Second year students told us: “This master could be whatever you want. They give you guidelines, and support but all the rest depends on you. You can choose how far you want to go.”

Actually we do have a few minimum deliverables for each project but they encourage you to go further. For instance, one of the first days, Rob Nero (a second year student) showed us a prototype of his first year’s personal project. Take a look at the video.

It’s quite impressive, the concept behind the prototype is the most important job for us, but he also wanted to actually build it and he did!

I’ve been living in Spain for a long time. I was born there, grew up there and lived there until a few weeks ago. I even got an university degree there: “Telecommunication Engineer” (Perhaps the geekest degree in Spain). Furthermore I worked as a researcher, webmaster and sysadmin… but not for a long time.

In a certain way, I’ve always been interested in the relationship between technology, people, society… So last year I realized that I didn’t want to work in the background of chips and code. What to do? I didn’t know.  I had heard a little bit about something called “Interaction design”. I dug deeper and found out that it was what I was looking for. I applied for K3 at Malmö university, they admitted me, and here I am (More details in the future)

My aim is to use this blog to document everything I’ll do here  to become an interaction designer. I’ll write about lectures, workshops, books, projects…

Step by step.

Next post: K3 and Interaction Design Master.