Around 50 students (both campus-based and distance) gathered 18 April at the University of Kalmar's School of Design in Nybro to present their design projects based on Second Life and Kamimo Island. The students come from two separate programs (Design and Interaction Design) and the Second Life projects were an opportunity for the two groups to interact. The design students work more on an artistic level with design concepts and form whereas the interaction design group work with 3D design and have more of an IT focus. These groups had not previously had contact with each other though several had carried out more limited projects in SL last year (see previous blog entries). The teachers, Ivar Jung and Ole Victor, had given the groups a week to work on their projects after introducing them to SL and showing them Kamimo Island.
The students presented ideas for buildings in SL and discussed SL as a learning environment. Most designs were futuristic in style, often buildings which were easy to fly in and out and easy to see from the outside. One of the problems encountered when working together in SL was when several people were building at the same time in the sandbox. This often caused considerable lag and made in-world cooperation tricky. Several students felt that it would be better to build at a private location in SL without risk of having to share capacity. The interaction design students look forward to being able to import from more advanced 3D modelling tools since the tool available in SL was felt to be too limited. The general verdict from the interaction design group was that SL was still not really advanced enough for their purposes. The design students saw potential in SL for designing "impossible" structures and experimenting with space and form and found several good examples of this.
One of the designs presented
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