NISYRIO organises a webinar about Object design facilitated by Costas Bissas. High school students and third grade of middle school will have the chance to become familiar with the process of “how to design an object”. From the concept and the idea development to the practical design on paper and electronic tools, until the actual making of the object. The webinar is an intense course divided in four meetings that will take place 2, 4, 9 and 11 of June at the Multimedia room of the high school. Our willingness is the webinar to turn into an annual course during the coming school year so that the students acquire advanced skills on how to create their own objects. This may lead to publish a “how to design your own object” guide which will be available to the younger students.
Costas Bissas is a design consultant based in Greece. His research interests lie between design, technology, wellbeing and culture, focusing on the use of design as a creative tool for the development of innovative products and services. He has collaborated with international organizations such as DeBalie Centre for Culture & Politics in Amsterdam, FutureEverything in Liverpool, the Barbican Centre in London and the SENSEable city Laboratory of MIT in Boston. His work has been acclaimed by the European Innovative Games Award, the Greek Graphic Design & Communication Awards, Mikser Festival of Creativity & Innovation and Athens Startup Weekend Sustainability. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering at the University of the Aegean and although he has lived for 2.5 years next to the Loch Ness, he never managed to locate the monster.
Supported by “START – Create Cultural Change”, a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, conducted in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the German Association of Sociocultural Centers, supported by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and the Bodossaki Foundation.
