How do we manage and visualise information and the ever-increasing volume of information we are all producing? How do we allow people to access it, and each other, from distant places? How to create new forms of communication and interaction via online networks? How can we make the Institute itself and its communication with its worldwide community a case study example of this?

Interaction Design Institute Ivrea is becoming a major hub in the international network of interaction design. It is a school and a centre of design innovation and as such, is in the unique position to be experimental and informative. Interaction-Ivrea is a place for framing debates, setting agendas, sharing knowledge, developing ideas and for education and learning. The aim is to convey these qualities to the online presence of the Institute and to create an online space that enables the international interaction design community to engage each other. The Institute is also interested in experimenting with knowledge representation, as well as designing collaborative online knowledge spaces: e.g. open system architecture, online space forms, central archiving and interfaces such as notice boards, complex visualisations and conversation maps.

Currently, there are three projects in this area: BOX, Bluhaus, and Hub.