David Boardman

Selected projects 2002-09

Focused on the functional and emotional impact of technologies in our everyday lives, David is an interaction designer engaged in creating meaningful connections between people, information and sociable spaces. He is passionate about working on design projects ranging from the concept development to the prototyping phase - on both philosophical and practical levels. He has experience working with and leading interdisciplinary and multi-cultural teams on projects with tight timelines. He is particularly interested in topics related to social sustainability, participatory cultures, maps and information architecture.

He has presented his design and media arts projects in several venues such as MIT Humanities + Digital Conference, Pervasive Computing Conference, Digital Eretics at International Journalism Festival, Fuorisalone, RomaDesign+, Chile Art Biennial, and The Arts & Politics of Netporn. His portfolio projects have been featured on Scientific American, We Make Money Not Art, Wired.it, Infosthetics, Sky News Italia, Repubblica.it. David is a distinguished graduate of Domus Academy / Interaction Design Institute and he holds an undergraduate degree in Media & Communication Studies. Prior to start the current freelance experience, he was Designer & Researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory (Mobile Experience Lab).

News & Updates

in.fondo.al.mar at Ars Electronica 2010 - "Repair the Environment - Doing the right thing" panel + exhibition at the Tabakfabrik in Linz, AT (Aug.16, 2010)
Updated portfolio, resume and added a link to my hikes diary (Aug 10th, 2010)
Memoria Historica de la Alameda is now online with the Spanish version (May 8th, 2010)

in.fondo.al.mar accepted at MIT Humanities + Digital Conference - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (Apr.22, 2010)
in.fondo.al.mar awarded at Digital Eretics 2010 - International Journalism Festival (Apr.18, 2010)
Memoria Historica de la Alameda celebrates its 5 years (2005-10) with an updated website http://www.memorialameda.cl (Mar.10, 2010)

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Locast - Civic Media | Mobile street reporting & participatory journalism platform

Mobile experience, Geo-social networks, Civic media
Porto Alegre (BR) / MIT, September - November 2009
Partner: PUCRS university

A day at MIT with NFC | NFC technology in everyday life

Scenarios & Future casting, Mobile experience, Ubiquitous computing
Boston (US) / MIT, April - May 2008
Client: Nokia

Locast - Travels | Location-based media & innovative travel experience

Mobile experience, Locative, Wearable computing
Venice (IT) / MIT, February - July 2009
Client: RAI New Media - Italian Public Broadcast TV

Ride.Link | Wearable media for social sustainability

Social sustainability, Mobile experience, Wearable
Brescia (IT) / MIT, September - December 2008
Client: Provincia Brescia

Memoria Historica de la Alameda | Collective memory of recent Chilean history

Media arts, Locative, Memory
Santiago de Chile (CL) / Universidad de Chile, May - July 2005
Support: Universidad de Chile

Le voci della pressa | Memory of the industrial archeology in Modena district

Interactive exhibition, Memory, Rapid prototyping
Milano / Fiorano Modenese (IT) - DARC, January - February 2008
Client: Domus Academy Research & Consulting

The Bubbies | Robot assisted play

Scenario, Robotics, Playful Experiences
Milano (IT) - Domus Academy, March - April 2007
Client: IROMEC consortium

Green Wheel | Smart mobility & ubiquitous computing scenarios

Scenarios & future casting, Mobility, Ubiquitous Computing
Boston (US) / MIT, April 2009
Partner: MIT Media Lab - Smart Cities Group

in.fondo.al.mar / under.the.sea | Interactive information visualization

Data visualization, Collaborative, Activism
November 2009
Independent work

That's Alcohol | Breathalizer 2.0

Interactive exhibition, Physical computing, Playful experience
Milano (IT) / FuoriSalone, March 2007
Venue: Milan Design Week 2007

Connected Home | Envisioning the Connected Home in the future

Scenarios & future casting, Energy management, Green design
Boston (US) / MIT, March - September 2008
Client: Cisco Systems Inc.

Orama | A collaborative narration for contemporary flaneurs

Media arts, Net-art, Collaborative hypertext
Torino (IT), Valparaiso & Santiago de Chile (CL) / 2002-2005
Independent work

Transdanube | A networked object

Locative, Internet of things, Prototype, Physical computing
Budapest (HU) / Kitchen Budapest, August 2007
Client: Kitchen Budapest (Deutsche Telekom)

Deriva en Santiago | Psychogeography experience in Santiago de Chile

Media arts, Psychogeography, Urban space perception
Santiago de Chile (CL) / Universidad de Chile, April 2005
Support: Universidad de Chile

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Currently located in

Aosta, Italy

Where I am currently located