Lecture Matt Wade and Kevin Palmer on interactive design and the story as a way of structuring human experience

Matt Wade and Kevin Palmer are the founders of Kin Design, a research led, interactive design studio. In the three years since it was established, the studio carried out about 170 projects, including Third City identity agency, Wallpaper magazine’s iPad application and the web sites of Natalia Vodianova’s Naked Heart Foundation and Thrum music studio. Matt and Kevin actively teach and run workshops at different British and European schools, including London’s Camberwell Institute of Arts, Barlett University College London’s Faculty of the Built Environment, and the Dublin Institute of Technology. In Moscow, they will hold a workshop together with Strelka Institute to develop a  concept for a new site of the Polytechnologic Museum.

At this lecture, Matt and Kevin will talk about their research in interactive design. They will look at the relationships between people and the things and space that surround them, at their feelings during this interaction and at their narrative as a way to structure experience. The lecture will discuss how Kin Design uses stories to create and improve the objects with which people interact.

Matt Wade and Kevin Palmer: «Our work is about the way in which experience is formed.Most of the time our experiments lie in the field of communication design, and we research how a person perceives information, a product or a service, or a story, limited in time and space. It’s extremely important for us to understand how people behave in parallel situations, after which we continue our work in order to match (and in some cases challenge) the way people are used to perceive the spaces that surround them».