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Enrolments are now open for postgraduate study in our PhD and Master of Creative Technologies programmes. We would love to talk to you about the possibilities of joining us to work on future orientated interdisciplinary research projects including our new Social Innovation courses starting mid 2017.
We have several scholarships currently available and we are particularity interested in:
- Immersive data visualisation - exploring new ways of using cutting edge hardware and software to create single- and multi-user visualisation scenarios with new and intuitive interaction methods. Led by Stefan Marks.
- Creative Technologies and Civics - exploring how creative technologies and digital media can promote civic engagement and community wellbeing. Led by Anna Jackson.
Have a look at our staff profiles and research projects for other research areas you might like to discuss. If you are thinking about postgraduate study in 2017 please contact us at pgcolab@aut.ac.nz.
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November 10, 2016 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm | Free | Register here
MD Conference Centre, AUT South Campus
Colab is developing a new social innovation research programme to be based at AUT South Campus in 2017. Join us to learn about this programme and the other fantastic research and practice taking place in the areas of Social Innovation, Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship.
Our key partners for the event are The Southern Initiative who will not only be key notes for the event alongside The Auckland CoDesign Lab, but are also hosting a Petcha Kutcha presentation session of some leading locals working in this area.
Register now for this free event and get a taste of the Southern Auckland social innovation scene and engage in some awesome networking.
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November 11, 2016 | 4:45pm – 5:45pm | RSVP Essential
Colab, Level 11, WG, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT City Campus
Join us to celebrate the end of another great year at Colab by recognising the success and achievement of our amazing students and their fantastic work. Thanks to Spark we have some great prizes to be awarded. Spaces are very limited and registration is essential. Please RSVP via this event page to secure your spot. The event is directly before the BCT Showcase event.
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November 11, 2016 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Free
Colab, Level 11, WG, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT City Campus
Join us to see and experience a diverse range of works that experiment and create with the latest technologies to tackle challenges that are beyond the capability of conventional ideas.
Cutting across the traditional boundaries between creative arts, design, digital media, computing, engineering and entrepreneurship, our studio based degree brings these together in this one night only innovative showcase that is not to be missed.
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November 16, 2016 | 6:00pm – 8:30pm | Ticketed event | Register here
Room WG308, Sir Paul Reeves Building AUT City Campus
We are thrilled that AUT is hosting Refactor - A movement which encourages, supports and motivates women working in, or passionate about, technology. They have a great speaker line-up for the final Refactor event of 2016: Anna Curzon, Jessica Venning-Bryan, Emily Melhuish and Lisa Miles-Heal.
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November 17, 2016 | 5:30pm | Free
Colab, Room WG1103, Level 11, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT City Campus
Familiar criticisms are easy to level against today’s culture of overproduction: low quality goods manufactured in unacceptable working conditions have driven down quality in favour of volume. Far harder to come by are clear solutions. This lecture considers practitioners who each critique current models of production and investigate inspiring alternatives.
Hemmings is Head of the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and is the author of key publications such as The Textile Reader and Cultural Threads (Transnational Textiles Today).
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November 18 - 20, 2016
Massey University, Albany Campus
Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and entrepreneurs come together to share ideas, form teams, and solve real problems that matter.
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November 7 - 25, 2016 | Online
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is an online, open access event that invites thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, makers and learners to explore the question “The economy is changing - what do I need to know, experience and do?”.
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October 6 - November 25, 2016
Digital Art Live, Level 2, Aotea Centre
Kauhanga by Lachie Philipson and Harmony Repia intimately reconnects viewers with their whakapapa and acknowledges the importance of making connections and transferring knowledge between past and present generations. The work tells stories of Māori wāhine during the First World War.
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Check out our new video about our Master of Creative Technologies programme and find out more about the broad range of options open to MCT students at AUT. It features two of our fantastic students, Amy Tielu and Alejandro Davila who demonstrate the advanced understanding of the role and potential of creative technologies the programme provides.
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Stuff.co.nz, October 20, 2016
Master of Creative Technologies graduate, and NZ Innovator of the Year finalist, Alejandro Davila, along with 15 other top innovators from Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch have joined the New Zealand VR/AR Association.
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Waiheke Gulf News, October 6, 2016
Changing courses part-way through has reaped rewards for Bachelor of Creative Technologies student Sophie McIntyre. Darling, a hastily cobbled together entry by Sophie and colleagues Lara Galea and Ingrid Worrall, was judged runner-up in the WOW Factor award in the World of Wearable Art Awards in Wellington.
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Congratulations to the third year BCT student team Float Studios (Benjamin Bray, Charles Hlavac, James Hurlock, Jake Mcpherson, Levi Jacobsen and Tyler Hinde) who won Gold in the 'Student, Interactive' category at the Best Awards 2016 with their project Chasm.
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A team of our of Creative Technologies students worked to make a Wearable Tech Twitter Dress for Sarah Trotman, MC for the AUT Business School Excellence in Business Support Awards. For more info about the project and the great team behind it check out this flyer. Colab also presented the Design and Creative Technology Support award at the event.
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STEVE ROOD'S PGR9 PRESENTATION - THE SHADOW MACHINE PROJECT
December 15, 2016 | 2:00pm
Colab, WG10, AUT City Campus
Does the photographic still require a photographer, a camera or even a photograph? The Shadow Machine Project seeks to discover new trajectories for the photographic tradition in the age of the algorithmic image.
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ALEJANDRO DAVILA AT VR ON THE LOT
Supported by ATEED and the NZ Film Commission, Master of Creative Technologies student Alejandro Davila flew to LA for VR on the LOT, the two day event that included over 100 keynote speakers and 1000 Hollywood and VR industry leaders representing more than 40 VR companies all engaging in the latest knowledge, technologies and practise in Virtual Reality at Paramount Pictures.
Alejandro exhibited his VR film The Green Fairy to industry leaders and investors and even Ramiro Lopez Dau, director at Oculus Story Studio.
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Congratulations to our seven fantastic students who won Dean's Awards for Excellence in Postgraduate Study. Ezra Whittaker-Powley, Jenna Gavin, Kirsty Harvey, Lina Pierson, Luke Munn, Marcel Allen and Matt Martin all completing their Master of Creative Technologies with Honours (First Class) 2016.
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Bachelor of Creative Technologies alumni, Justin Cramer-Roberts, now a Junior Digital Designer at .99, shares his experience of BCT.
“I had a range of interests in technological, scientific and digital disciplines, and the Bachelor of Creative Technologies provided a way to learn vital industry skills in a way that appealed to me."
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Sentience Lab director Dr. Stefan Marks is developing a virtual reality walk-through of nasal cavities extracted from MRI scans together with Dr David White and his student Manpreet Singh. Those visualisations will be used in class for education and for the visualisation and analysis of airflow. This is an exciting new collaboration between Colab, Engineering and the Design for Respiratory Health Lab.
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November 14, 2016 | 2:00pm | Free | RSVP via email
Room WS114, WS Building, St Paul Street, AUT City Campus
Dr Debra Carr of Cranfield University in the UK is visiting AUT as a guest of the Textile and Design Lab and will be speaking about the issues around the subject of body armour in her guest lecture. Debra’s current research includes body armour and helmet optimisation and forensic textile science. Please register your intention to attend this lecture by emailing tdl@aut.ac.nz.
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Stuff.co.nz, October 28, 2016
Stuff got the inside word from Peter Heslop, Textile and Design Lab manager at AUT and Gordon Fraser, Senior Technician, on the new All Blacks jersey, which is apparently the strongest ever.
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MAGGIE BUXTON LEADING DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SOCIAL INNOVATION POSTGRADUATE COURSES
Dr. Maggie Buxton is developing a new social innovation research programme to be based at AUT South Campus in 2017. Social Innovation is a dynamic, interdisciplinary area of study and practice that has gained traction nationally and internationally. As a student you will be identifying, co-designing, implementing and critiquing innovative responses to complex societal issues. With a design and creative technologies focus, these courses are practically focussed and flexibly delivered at AUT’s South Campus.
Master of Social Innovation (MSI)
Postgraduate Certificate in Social Innovation (PGCSI)
Postgraduate Diploma in Social Innovation PGDipSI
(MSI, PGCSI and PGDipSI are all subject to approval)
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Ricardo Sosa is leading a new research project “Robot for Mayor 2030: Gamification strategies for prototyping new forms of participation and transformation”.
This innovative project in collaboration with Rebeca Torres (Kingston University London) and Eduardo Sandoval (University of Canterbury) is framed as a cross disciplinary inquiry that addresses a fundamental question: “Who will shape the future of Auckland, and how?” Mediated by a state-of-the-art humanoid robot, researchers aim to build new ways of engaging citizens in creative conversations about the future possibilities of this complex and diverse city.
Despite the rhetoric of liveability enshrined in the Auckland Plan, citizens currently have little say in what actually constitutes liveability in their specific locale, how it is to be realised, or how it might be experienced in everyday terms. The “Robot for Mayor 2030” project posits a radical alternative to the planning of Auckland.
The initial trial sessions have been developed with enthusiastic students and teachers from Manurewa High School and Epsom Girls Grammar School. These sessions aimed to prototype the interaction and activities. Robot H (Robot for Mayor) is envisioning long-term collaboration with these two schools. Visit the website to find out how to get involved.
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Pete Rive, recently returned from a trip to the northern hemisphere where he presented papers at two conferences and discussed research collaboration opportunities.
He began at WBML (World Building Media Lab) at the University of Southern California before visiting VR Studios and Aalto University in Finland - A new multidisciplinary science and art community in the fields of science, economics, and art and design.
Pete presented his paper Design Thinking Methods and Creative Technologies in Virtual Worlds at ECIE 2016:11th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Jyväskylä, Finland). He also presented his paper Here Today, Virtual Tomorrow: future proofing your online digital presence at DeL 2016 - Design on e-Learning “Anxiety and Security” (New York, USA)
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The Cultural Office of the French Embassy in New Zealand and Auckland University of Technology are pleased to invite applications to participate in the Te Ataata Residency Programme in 2017.
The programme is for a French creative practitioner to be hosted for three months at Colab in Auckland. Applicants may come from an art, design or creative technologies background, and will demonstrate a strong engagement in new media and hybrid practices.
The residency will enable the development of new initiatives and joint collaborations on topics of mutual interest. We welcome applicants who demonstrate a strong engagement in new media and hybrid practices, working in emergent areas using creative technologies.
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GRANT FOR PROTOTYPING IDEAS
A grant of up to $50,000 through Gulf Innovation Fund Together is available to enable first stage prototyping of great ideas.
The funds for early prototyping are to help the Hauraki Gulf by addressing some of the major environmental issues it faces.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Loading Docs invites NZ filmmakers to submit initial concept proposals for Loading Docs 2017: Diversity.
Submissions should outline the concept for a three-minute documentary that addresses the theme of Diversity, and are due Monday 21st of November 2016.
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