Interaction Design Institute Ivrea develops our capacity to innovate new products and services. These services help us interact with each other in new ways-through communications, network and information technology. The Institute, which combines a masters programme and clusters of future concept projects, is part of Telecom Italia's Progetto Italia.

Interaction-Ivrea aims to

Innovate

To find new ways to design in the medium of tele-communications - through future concept projects which demonstrate the role of interaction design in the development of services and the devices that allow us to interact with them

Educate

To teach a group of designers to be pioneers in this field - through an international multidisciplinary masters course

Communicate

To be a centre for the dissemination of the culture of interaction design - what it is, how is it done and how it can lead to products and services which fit the needs and desires of ordinary people.

Interaction-Ivrea, which opened in October 2001, is a non-profit association supported by private companies. Its founding sponsors are Telecom Italia and Olivetti.