“Design is less centred on making objects, images, or spaces as on how people interact with them and how these things function within social, economic, political and environmental contexts. […] Instead of focusing on design for social change, it makes more sense to focus on design that helps people...
“They live”, by John Carpenter (1988). More...
“They live”, by John Carpenter (1988). More specifically, I’m interested in these glasses. ...
"My favourite page on the music tracking site Last.fm is the one listing user’s deleted tracks:..."
“My favourite page on the music tracking site Last.fm is the one listing user’s deleted tracks: songs they’ve definitely listened to, but chosen to erase. Predictably, Adele and Lady Gaga figure prominently. If the internet is a medium of memory, what does it mean to forget a book?” - James Bridle,...
"Space may be the final frontier But it’s made in a Hollywood basement Cobain can you hear the..."
“Space may be the final frontierBut it’s made in a Hollywood basement Cobain can you hear the spheres Singing songs off station to station And Alderon’s not far away It’s Californication” - Red Hot Chili Pepper, Californication, 2009. ...
A part of France you don’t know anything about, near...
A part of France you don’t know anything about, near Brazil. ...
Cat + robot
Cat + robot ...
Interesting projects at Art Center
Two interesting project I saw yesterday at the Pecha Kucha organized at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena: A Machine Frame of Mind by Brooklyn Brown: "As the computational environments that surround us rapidly become more sophisticated will we continue to trust them more? If the computer ...
Summer project: Curious Gestures
So, as I mentioned the other day, I'm in Los Angeles this summer, being a visiting researcher at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The project I'm working on there is called "CURIOUS RITUALS: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday" and we've just set up a blog about it. It's ac...
Summer in Los Angeles
... oh and btw, I've been quiet here because I've been busy on different fronts: - relocating to California for the summer, doing a "visiting researcher" residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, working on a project about gesture (that I'll blog about as soon as there is something to ...
Flawed "trends" circulation
Just saw this intriguing link called "5 Digital Trends Shaping the Consumer Experience" sent by @iamdanw and I found it fascinating. The post lists so-called "trends" (a term commonly employed by consultants and marketing persons to refer to a particular form of culture that emerged at a certain ...