Stretch Your Toes 2009
I am Ásta Olga Magnusdottir, an independent project manager and new media designer. My interest and research fields within ICT include mobile technology for social impact, critical design and urban informatics.
My ongoing activities are:
.melfa mobile learning
MELFA is a mobile learning application aimed at adults with literacy and language problems in the Western Cape, South Africa. I work in close collaboration with educators, software developers and linguists, and I am involved in both project management and design. MELFA is a DANIDA IPD project 2007-2010. Go to project website
.movementLab new media dance city
Movement Lab is a site-specific interactive/participatory dance piece where synesthetic experiences between body movements and movements in a city are explored.
Work in progress - collaboration with choreographer Hannah Loewenthal.
.max/msp/Jitter graphical programming interactive arts
I am a part time lecturer at the New Media department of Michaelis School of Fine Art. Go to course description
.ntonga's music school community building
Ntonga, an upcoming music school founded by the Playing For Change Foundation, is situated in Gugulethu, one of the previously disadvantaged areas in the vicinity of Cape Town. As a friend of the school I take on consultancy and communication for this worthy project. Find out more on the Ntonga blog.
.úrbanistan city interventions
For the love of the cities we live in and an urge to contribute and interfere, Anna Maria Bogadottir and I created this Urb!an Laboratory on the Move in 2004. Visit úrbanistan.org
.acknowledgements
takk to my friend and clever designerphoebe for the navigation system here!