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The University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute : KMDI

The University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute : KMDI. … UofT’s first Virtual Institute (1995). Designing & critiquing the media, technologies and policies of the Knowledge Society At the nexus of Design ▪ Technology ▪ Social and Human Sciences Intellectual incubator.

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The University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute : KMDI

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  1. The University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute : KMDI … UofT’s first Virtual Institute (1995) • Designing & critiquing the media, technologies and policiesof the Knowledge Society • At the nexus ofDesign ▪ Technology ▪ Social and Human Sciences • Intellectual incubator http://kmdi.utoronto.ca

  2. A few facts: • More than 65 faculty from > 25 disciplines • 30 Masters & PhD students & 8 KMDI Fellows • Visiting Professor and Senior Fellows Program • Partnerships with government & industry …21st Century Network Organisation • Characterised by: • Human centredness • Interdisciplinarity • Collaboration • Innovation Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 .

  3. Collaboration Environments for Work & Learning 15 years of research: KITL • Design • Use • Evaluation

  4. Some projects • ePresence Interactive Media • NECTAR: Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research ePresence Live! ePresence Media ePresence Open SourceConsortium

  5. KMDI’s Project Open Source | Open Access $500,000 3-year Project on the phenomenon of ‘openness’open.utoronto.ca OS OA Interactive media

  6. Student Experience Programs Project OS|OA Awards • Up to $2000/student • over 40 projects, Supervised by faculty, with undergraduates and graduate students working in all aspects of ‘openness’ MediaGenerator • KMDI & Institute for Communication & Culture (UTM) • Undergraduate student-led, graduate and faulty supported project to imagine the student media of the 21st Century http://mediagenerator.ca

  7. Further information: Professor Gale Moore Director KMDI gmoore@kmdi.utoronto.ca info@open.utoronto.ca

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