"> "Fortress of Solitude" by Space Caviar (Simone Niquille), sound by M.E.S.H:"is an essay film in three chapters investigating the technology used to make the home smarter. The internet and alternative network protocols are the backbone to home automation. Much of the technology infused into ...
Probable Possible Preferable Futures
Futures research, foresight and speculative design often use the notion of "possible", "potential", "plausible" and "preferable" future. See for instance the work by Stuart Candy who uses the diagram above based on the work of different researchers. This typology is described in more ...
Design Ethnography poster
Here's a photo of the poster we presented two weeks ago at the European Academy of Design Conference in Paris. It's based on a research project conducted at HEAD – Genève which led to this book (we're working on a second edition). The diagrams depicts the different profiles ...
Short Cuts between art, design and technology
"Short Cuts" is a fascinating exhibit at Centre Pasquart (Biel, Switzerland) curated by my colleague Daniel Sciboz, with the collaboration of Jean-Louis Boissier :"At a time in which the digital is omnipresent, the interdisciplinary group exhibition Short Cuts highlights the dialogue ...
Libraire minimaliste
Belgrade, 15 avril 2015. Un "libraire" aperçu dans une rue proche de l'université locale. Quatre ouvrages sont proposés. Quelques mètres plus loin, d'autres sont un peu mieux achalandés, avec notamment des superbes éditions de "Mos" (Mauss) et de "Didro" (Diderot). ...
"Teacher of algorithms": the IoT equivalent to goldfarmers
"> "Teacher of Algorithms" by Simone Rebaudengo and commissioned by thingtank.org/ is an highly intriguing project "built with Cardboard and a lot of randomness". It's basically an exploration of algorithm training, how "smart/learning objects" are not finished entities and can evolv...
Générations de jouets
Mars 2015, Marché aux puces de Plainpalais, Genève. Plusieurs générations de jeux et jouets trouvés sur un étal... des voitures miniatures (plastique versus métal) aux cartouches de Master System (Sega) et Super Nintendo, en passant par des machine en plastique difficilement identifia...
Visioconference-while-walking
Some serious business going on here: a Facetime-enabled visioconference operated while walking (seen in Geneva, Switzerland). Verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of a heated debate on a subject I could not parse because of my lack of knowledge of this language.Why do I blog ...
Latour des Confluences
Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France), décrit par Bruno Latour de la manière suivante dans Le Monde:"Au bout de cette pointe de sédiment, il n’y a pas que la Saône et le Rhône qui se rejoignent mais, ce qui est plus rare, les collections dites ethnographiques et celles dites scientifiq...
Saint Etienne Design Biennale 2015
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