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==== Improving Reality 2013 ==== | ==== Improving Reality 2013 ==== | ||
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- | #ireality | + | ==== notes/ |
- | === notes/ | ||
+ | ====Timo Arnall==== | ||
- | Ireality 2013 | ||
+ | Technology and culture are intertwined. It's important to work with the materiality of technology. It's important to investigate materials when designing digital and technological objects. Revealing the invisible side of algorithms, for example: how RFID or GPS inhabits space. Working with or understanding materials can give people a sense of agency. | ||
- | RFID as seamless enabler of frictionless capitalism | + | Designers should work communicatively. We need to develop new metaphors to understand how people understand technology. |
+ | RFID as seamless enabler of frictionless capitalis | ||
- | x.ref 'designing culture' | + | References |
+ | * Anne Balsamo. " | ||
+ | * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials | ||
+ | * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and what's possible | ||
+ | * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome" | ||
+ | * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and technology) | ||
+ | * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914 | ||
+ | * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field) | ||
- | Frank and Lillian gilbreth time and motion studies | ||
- | " | + | ====Keller Easterling==== |
- | Freezone as software for producing cities. Incentivized urbanism. EPZ and BIP | + | Infrastructure technology has an abstract logic. It is built through recipes, replicable |
- | Kazakh Paleoghengis competition | + | Space can be understood as technology: infrastructure space, |
- | Jeff noon - spores Microspore tumblr | + | Extrastatecraft is driven by irrationality. Freezone as software for producing cities. Incentivized urbanism. EPZ and BIP |
- | http:// | + | How to hack the infrastructure space? Architects should learn to read the patterns of disposition of space, not in its object form, but its active form. Space can be seen as carrier of information, |
- | The 'good life' | + | Free zones are based on governance modelled on pirate enclaves that now swallow whole cities (Singapore, Dubai, Astana (entire capital as Free Zone - in a paleo-Ghengis contest with Dubai). Now used as software to design cities, as incentivised urbanism. Is it possible to transplant some of the incentives into existing cities, bringing the zone back into law, creating a different masterplan), |
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+ | Creating village protocols: lowering travel distances, dialling up broadband, dialling down roads. Africa could be the new contagious spatial software. | ||
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+ | How to subtract rather than increase urban development? | ||
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+ | To hack into this system, we need an alternative, | ||
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+ | ====Frank Swain ==== | ||
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+ | Koreshan system: "We live inside out" | ||
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+ | Lay lines in 1920s (A. Watkins lines of sight) | ||
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+ | Infrastructure | ||
+ | groups playing out in the city. | ||
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+ | Maps as fiction: hidden places on google maps (airfields, military installations) | ||
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+ | Maps as narratives of possible invasions (1910, 2nd world war…) | ||
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+ | changing reality to suit your maps. | ||
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+ | ====Tom Armitage==== | ||
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+ | Literary operator: a collaboration with Jeff Noon >> http:// | ||
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+ | Jeff Noon's micro fiction >> | ||
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+ | ====Paul Graham Raven==== | ||
Infrastructure fiction | Infrastructure fiction | ||
- | Ref anab Jain essay 're. Design fiction and macro engineering | + | Change thinking that infrastructure is " |
- | Diegetic prototypes | + | Infrastructure fiction: reflexive macroengineering and design fiction, conceptual modelling (not a literary movement) |
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+ | Design fiction: in order to be effective it must believe in itself: imagine the problem is already solved and explore implications. | ||
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+ | Diegetic prototypes. DRB future is now | ||
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+ | Flatpack futures: critique of technology (Scott Smith) | ||
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+ | What is infrastructure, | ||
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+ | Shatter illusions and the rhetoric of futurity. | ||
" | " | ||
- | "Think about the box" | + | "Think about the box" |
- | Ask better questions rather than solving | + | People are the most invisible part of any infrastructure. Don't write a story about the bridge, write about the people making and using the bridge... |
- | E.coloroid ref igem | + | ====Maja Kuzmanovic==== |
- | Seasons of the void. Photosynthesis as replaced by electrosynthesis | + | see transcription at [[improving realities]] |
- | Synthetic Aesthetics overview | + | ====Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg==== |
- | " | + | Use design to seek out better questions. Ask better questions rather than solving the wrong problems. |
- | "The psychopath test" | + | Project: E. Colaroid |
- | New Mumbai 2012 | + | Do we need a new branch on a tree of life for " |
- | David Graeber - a practical utopian guide to the coming collapse | + | The role of fiction is to initiate discussion (e.g. from photosynthesis to electrosynthesis for farming during Mars missions / synthetic aesthetics: we eat what we are) |
- | Vis | + | Space travel research allows for disputable tech to enter mainstream consciousness (will GMO be made ok through space travel?) |
- | " | + | References |
+ | * Synthetic Biology, A primer | ||
+ | * Season of the void | ||
+ | * Synthetic Aesthetics | ||
- | x.ref Boy kings. Re Facebook | + | ====Tobias Revell==== |
- | Voss | ||
- | x.ref MUPPET acronym | + | Working with weak signals (impossible, |
- | x.ref 'The entrepreneurial state' econ paper | + | Design fiction projects: " |
- | Technology as 'hopeful monsters' | + | From Koreshans to protest movements (Occupy) - people don't know what they want, only that they're unhappy. More interesting alternative: |
- | (bidirectional liquid democracy, recruit ppl to help inform/make decisions before delegated votes) | + | David Graeber " |
- | WEIRD as psych acronym | + | Jon Ronson. "The psychopath test" |
- | Zimbabwe Bush pump - x ref paper | + | ====Hide & Seek==== |
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+ | 1920s Brighton game: (who is Lobby Ladd?): design for a game over the summer, when newspaper sales were low: find the lad and get points (and cash) | ||
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+ | Place where you're playing matters (against the "magic circle" | ||
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+ | ====Scott Smith==== | ||
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+ | summariesed at http:// | ||
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+ | ====Farida Vis==== | ||
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+ | Big data, " | ||
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+ | "The Boy kings" by Kate Losse. http:// | ||
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+ | ====Georgina Voss==== | ||
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+ | The concept of the entrepreneur was developed in 1920s & 30s, reaching its high point in the 70s (at the same time as " | ||
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+ | Looking at who funds many innovative technologies: | ||
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+ | Technologies are hopeful monsters, made monstrous by people and processes. | ||
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+ | references | ||
+ | * MUPPET acronym & analysis | ||
+ | * 'The entrepreneurial state' econ paper | ||
+ | * Technology as ' | ||
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+ | ====Paula Le Dieu==== | ||
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+ | BBC Creative Archive, 10 years ago, plan to digitise and open up BBC archives (for re-using content as well): planned 1mil hours, now only about 10h available: depressing. | ||
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+ | Projects to create platforms for people to tell their own stories: e.g. roofs of bus stops. | ||
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+ | How can we tell our stories to really make a difference? | ||
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+ | ====Justin Pickard==== | ||
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+ | Paper: "The WEIRDest people in the world" | ||
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+ | Charismatic megaengineering similar to " | ||
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+ | compare and contrast: internet.org <-> info-ladies in Bangladesh | ||
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+ | It's a question of ' | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * Martin Jakubowski - Global Village construction set http:// | ||
+ | * Zimbabwe Bush pump paper on appropriate tech. | ||
+ | * Wikihouse | ||
+ | * Radi-aid | ||
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+ | However: not to confuse morality and appropriateness. | ||
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+ | ====discussions==== | ||
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+ | Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; | ||
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+ | An abstraction away from the true power of tools (problem w. Facebook/ | ||
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+ | Revolution: in sheer numbers, but with the ability to dig down into individual stories. | ||
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+ | Open is a myth that should be cracked open (watch out for open but not accessible). | ||
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+ | The 'good life' is not unattainable it is unmaimtaimable | ||
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+ | Ref anab Jain essay 're. Design fiction and macro engineering | ||
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+ | (bidirectional liquid democracy, recruit ppl to help inform/make decisions before delegated votes) | ||
- | http:// | ||
- | an abstraction away from the true power of tools (problem w. Facebook/ | ||