Dundee University has always been a particularly renowned institute, but as it happens, some major names in industry seem to be taking a great amount of interest in the Product Design course.
We are delighted to tell you that Microsoft have commissioned Product Design (along with Interactive Media Design) with an exciting brief that has been causing a stir along the Product Design corridor. It seems that the name Microsoft is upon the lips of every fellow aspiring designer in our building!
In short, the brief we have been delivered asks us to explore new ways of working within the retired population. Through related research in to the life of an elderly member of one of our families, we are to produce a networked object which will aid both parties (the elderly and the younger generation) so that they may share the skills that may be long lost in our modern environment.
As part of this process, Richard Banks of Microsoft Research (along with his colleagues) will be mentoring Flamingo and other companies taking part in this project, eventually selecting what they deem the most appropriate companys design to demonstrate as part of the Microsoft Expo in Seattle in July.
What makes this project all the more elusive is that we at Dundee University are the only institute taking part outwith Northern America (there are five institutes in total), exerting a great amount of pressure upon Flamingo to perform and deliver the optimum and altogether most appropriate concept!
