(Paris, janvier 2014) Les machines, et les objets connectés au réseau en particulier, ont la désagréable habitude d'avoir des noms impossibles à employer dans une conversation. Et ne parlons même pas de la difficulté à les mémoriser. Certes les adresses IP procèdent toutes du même regrou...
Visualizing TV series
This month, I'm giving a workshop at HEAD–Genève with Frédéric Kaplan and Yannick Rochat about Information Visualization and TV-series. The idea is to show the students how to visually depict events, characters' network, geographical evolution, among other things in these shows... using various sou...
"These machines can be a metaphor for whatever's on people's minds."
A dialogue from Mad Men S07E04:"Lloyd: These machines can be a metaphor for whatever's on people's minds.Don Draper: Because they're afraid of computers?Lloyd: Yes. This machine is frightening to people, but it's made by people.Don Draper: And people aren't fright...
"Pop-up studio" manual
Studio D Radiodurans – Jan Chipchase's new boutique – just released an intriguing booklet called "Pop-up Studio: Designing The Design Experience". It's basically a 43-pages guide that describes "how to run a pop-up studio, when and why it is appropriate, the trade-offs that need to be un...
Collection, accumulation, compilation
Coincidentally, I received two magazines today about a similar topic: collection and compilation. The first is the last copy of The Wire, the British music journal; and the second is FACTA, a fascinating Brazilian fanzine about "gambiologia" (the study of creative improvisation and electro-dig...
The Smithsonian on Science Fiction, the Future and design fiction
The May edition of the Smithsonian has an article on sci-fi, the Future (capital F) and design fiction. Based on interviews with various science-fiction authors (Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Ursula Le Guin, Ted Chiang or Neal Stephenson), this piece by Eileen Gunn highlights...
Design fiction: a bibliography
Some resources about design fiction I'm use to share with students. Note that the term itself is polysemic and covers different perceptions about its meaning.Auger, J. (2011). Alternative Presents and Speculative Futures: Designing fictions through the extrapolation and evasion of product lineages....
"Equipped with a computer chip, the rice cooker can't think'"
An interesting post Olivier Mével sent me, right after I saw a "3D rice cooker": Why Rice Cookers Are Exciting. Some excerpts I find intriguing: "Consider the everyday rice cooker. It seems rather dull: a squat box occupying space on the countertop, usually without any grace or sense of style. Yet ...
ETHICAL AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
ETHICAL AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES by Matthieu Cherubini is a stunning project I ran across tonight: "Many car manufacturers are projecting that by 2025 most cars will operate on driveless systems. While it is valid to think that our roads will be safer as autonomous vehicles replace traditional cars, the...
Serge Delaunay's technological (GTX) futures
This morning I've been to the Collection de l'Art Brut (Outsider Art) in Lausanne, for the "vehicles" exhibition. It's a new series, addressing means of transport with over 200 pieces by forty-two authors: "Vehicles of the most rudimentary kind or of a more technical nature, and whether intended fo...