Archive for January, 2007

SonicRim to collaborate with a leading edge innovation university in Denmark

SonicRim principal Uday Dandavate was invited by 180 Academy, a new innovation university being set up in Denmark with the support of a consortium of corporations comprising of Gumlink, Middelfart Sparekasse, Lego, Danfoss, Bang & Olufsen, Nokia and Novo Nordisk. The university was launched on November 26th 2006 in Denmark. Uday has been invited to a workshop in Mauritius next month where the core team comprising of the members of the board and the core faculty will discuss the vision and the course content.

The acting dean of the 180 academy is Anne Kirah, former senior design anthropologist at Microsoft. Other professors are Richard Pascale (associate fellow, Oxford University) and Lars Th??ger Christensen (professor, Department of Marketing, University of Southern Denmark). The faculty also includes the following visiting professors, consultants and associate professors: Teng-Kee Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Kirsten Becker (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Uday Dandavate (SonicRim, USA), Simona Maschi (Milan Polytechnic and former associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea), Heather Martin (also former associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) and Pia Betton (Framework Identity, Berlin). link to faculty

For more details visit 180academy.com


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