When reading Wired's article about Massimo Banzi and his Arduino team - see this earlier post - Experientia's Jan-Christoph Zoels and I thought it might be good to provide readers with some further insight on the offspring of the acclaimed but defunct Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (archival site).

A quick survey with former "Ivreans" revealed the extent to which this Italian graduate school, which was directed by Gillian Crampton Smith, produced a huge amount of entrepreneurial activity, with former staff and graduates now working throughout the design spectrum.

Here are - in alphabetical order - the 26 companies founded by former Ivreans: - Applied Fiction, Bangalore, India (Aparna Rao) - Arduino, Milan, Italy (Massimo Banzi, David Curatielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, David Mellis) - Barragan Studio, Bogota, Colombia (Hernando Barragan) - BOX, India (Rajesh Dahija) - Codesign, New Delhi, India (Rajesh Dahiya) - Cute Circuit, London, UK (Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz) - Experientia, Turin, Italy (Mark Vanderbeeken and Jan-Christoph Zoels, Yaniv Steiner) - Experiential Design Lab, Delhi, India (Giovanni Cannata and Anurag Sehgal) - Fluidtime, Vienna, Austria (Michael Kieslinger) - Frank First, New York, USA (Kim Mingo) - Harald Unnarsson Industrial / Interaction Design, Dalian, China (Harald Már Unnarsson) - Interaction Design Lab, Milan, Italy (Walter Aprile, Ailadi Cortelletti, Line Ulrika Christiansen, Barbara Ghella, Franz Goria, Giovanni Innella, Giannino Malossi, Gianluca Martino, Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino) - Interaction Design Studios, Berlin, Germany (Reto Wettach) - Ithaka Design, San Sebastian, Spain (Garikoitz Iruretagoien) - Keep Company, Los Angeles, CA (Margot Jacobs) - Kinfo.com, San Francisco, USA (Matty Sallin) - Live|Work, London, UK (Chris Downs, Lavrans Løvlie, Ben Reason) - Openwork, New York, USA (Hernando Barragan) - Project Bureau, London, UK (David Slocombe) - Tinker.it, Milan, Italy (Massimo Banzi and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino) - Truth Dare Double Dare, Hamburg, Germany (Jeremy Abbett and Franziska Hbler) - TODO, Turin, Italy (Giorgio Olivero) - UNPACKED Office of Architecture, Rome, Italy (Daniele Mancini) - Unsworn Industries, Malmö, Sweden (Magnus Torstensson) - Urban Seeder, Tel Aviv, Israel (Maya Lotan) - Urbanspoon, Seattle, USA (Ethan Lowry) - Wiring (Hernando Barragan) - zero-th association, Pula, Croatia (Karmen Franinovic) - ZORA Identity & Interaction Design, Düsseldorf, Germany (Britta Boland)

In addition, former Ivreans have also founded new schools and study programs (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Interaction Design Programme at IUAV University of Venice, and BA/MA program "Interface Design" at University of Applied Sciences at Potsdam), work for famous design consultancies and with the design and innovation departments of major multinational companies (Accenture, Arena Solutions, Canon, Cooper, eBay, Fjord, France Telecom, Frog Design, Google, Hitachi, HUGE, IDEO, lastminute.com, Microsoft, Nokia, Orange, Panasonic, Pega Design, Philips Design, Reed Business, RED Associates, Rockwell Group, Samsung, Seren Partners, Skype, Sony Ericsson, Tiny Pictures, Vodafone, and Whirlpool), and are involved in teaching and research (Alghero - University of Sassari, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, California College of the Arts, Delft University, Domus Academy, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Hamburg University of Applied Science, Highwater Research, Holon Institute of Technology, Institute for the Future, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, ITP, IUAV University of Venice, K3 School of Arts of Communication at Malmö University, Munich University of Applied Sciences, National Institute of Design, NTNU, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti-Milano (NABA), Princeton University, Shenkar Academy of Design and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, SVA, Umea University in Sweden, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Washington in Seattle, and Zurich University of the Arts).