Faber Ludens Institute for Interaction Design is a non-profit organization to promote Design and Technology in Brazil by integrating Market and Academy.

Brief History

Founded in 2007, Faber-Ludens Institute partnered with Fisam and UNC, local universities, to launch a graduate course on Interaction Design that has now more than 70 students, coming from distances ranging between 100km to 2.000km. It was the first course in Brazil to bring electronics to the hands of designers, using technologies like Lego Robotics, Arduino microcontroller and Touchatag RFIDs.

Aside from the courses taught, Faber-Ludens does consulting and in-company training for clients like Electrolux, Volkswagen and Federal University of Paraná.

Faber-Ludens is also a research organization, but adopts a very innovative model: all the projects are developed like Free Software, so every member of the community can collaborate through the Faber-Ludens website and it´s email lists, that has more than 900 subscribers. It´s a vibrant community.

Our Focus 

Faber Ludens focuses on communication technologies, a prominent field for research and education with high demands in our country. We understand communication technology as any artifact supporting interaction between two or more persons like mobile devices, games, websites, social software, toys, etc.

Scope

The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design conceptualizes Design as "a creative activity whose aim is to establish the multi-faceted qualities of objects, processes, services and their systems in whole life cycles. Therefore, design is the central factor of innovative humanisation of technologies and the crucial factor of cultural and economic exchange". Interaction Design is a sub-discipline of Design which deals specifically with adapting interactive artifacts for human interaction.

Vision

Nothing replaces the human being.

Mission

To integrate Market and Academy for social development through applied research on technology appropriation.

Goals

• To consolidate Interaction Design field in Brazil by
• Qualifying Interaction Design professionals and
• Becoming an international reference in Interaction Design

Anexo
	faber-ludens-brief.pdf
	faber-ludens-presentation.pps