Laurent Bolli gave me my "tweetbook" copy. It's basically a book with the content I've put on Twitter for few months. Tweetbook is a print-on-demand platform made by bookap that allows to archive your Twitter feed into a beautifully printed and bound book. The project was presented at a nice exhibi...
"Animal-Computer: a manifesto"
Anne Galloway's recent blogposts about epizoic media and the Internet of cows made me think about this PDF that I recently dropped on my computer desktop. It's called "Animal-Computer: a manifesto (see also this technical report) and it's written by Clara Mancini from The Open University in the UK....
Skeumorphed display
Such frames never ceases to fascinates me. ...
The smart city backdrop
"It should come as no surprise that the design and development of urban informatic systems is currently dominated by people coming from a background in web design. Despite the fact that these are very smart, extremely talented people, they struggle - as we all do - with the received assumptions, la...
The design of fearsome interactions
Theme parks and horror houses are not necessarily the kind of stuff you think about when someone tells you about interaction design... but these artifacts must be carefully thought. And this paper called The Gas Mask: A Probe for Exploring Fearsome Interactions is intriguing for that matter because...
NYT piece on the Talk to Me Exhibit at MoMA
An interesting overview of the "Talk to Me" exhibit at MoMA in the NYT written by Alice Rawthorn. Some excepts I found interesting: "“We went through so many changes in the definition of design in the 20th century with all the clichés about form following function, and the addition of meaning in th...
iPhone headset proxemics
Although it's hard to see on this picture taken in Marseille last week, it represents the maximum distance between two persons using the same iPhone headset. Collaborative usage of music if you want and headset proxemics. Why do I blog this? Collecting behavior like this leads me to wonder about ...
Design research project about extreme conditions (Moon)
Stumbled across this curious project this morning: the Moon Life Foundation, an interdisciplinary platform organisation for research and innovation in art and culture to a future life by people on the moon. Their aim is to create a community of practitioners and public about this sound topic. What...
An interview with Saskia Sassen about "Smart cities"
Preparing the Lift France 11 conference, and given our interest in a session about the future of cities, urban computing and its implications, we ran across this interesting column by Saskia Sassen about "Smart Cities" on a McKinsey digital. We liked it a lot and we invited her to the conference. F...
Good reference about timelines
Working on the game controller book lately, I became fascinated by visual representations of time: evolutionary trees, time-series, timelines, etc. A great resource about this is certainly "Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline" by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton. The book is a com...