Top Schools in Interaction Design: Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

In just one year, this hub for international innovators instills students with a powerful ability to apply integrated hands-on and people-centred approaches to a variety of challenges.

Discipline: Interaction Design
Location: San Hose, Costa Rica Copenhagen, Denmark
Undergraduate: Interaction Design Diploma

Number of students: 24
Number of faculty: 30 (including part-time and visiting teachers)

Strengths

An intensive one-year program with a record for hosting a deep field of guest professors and lecturers who are experts in their fields

Overview

With an emphasis on life-centred innovation in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the one-year Interaction Design Programme is known for its collaborative, hands-on approach and its focus on prototyping as an integral element of the learning process. Participants come from a wide variety of countries, backgrounds, and careers, adding to the multicultural and multidisciplinary studio culture. (The organisation includes a cutting-edge research group and a renowned consultancy that regularly partners with the world’s most forward-thinking companies.) Starting in February 2020, the Interaction Design Programme will also be offered in Costa Rica, providing opportunities to explore life-centred innovation in a dynamic new context.

Notable faculty

Joshua Walton of Facebook, Dario Buzzini of IDEO, Mayo Nissen of Frog Design

Notable alumni

Tobias Toft of Google, Marco Triverio of Apple, Jacek Barcikowski of the BBC