At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my recollection: ”In ‘hard’ sciences, like physics and maths, there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘design histories’
Fuzziness, Data and Truth
Monday, August 16th, 2010A Short Version of the Long History of Concrete
Friday, January 15th, 2010I’m pretty fed up with the future. The design world seems so absolutely obsessed with the idea of inventing the future that today, yesterday and anything that isn’t nearly as exciting as a jetpack or an augmented brain is seen as quite lame. Reality, as always, gets chucked out with the bath water. Most often, [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet of Things
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009This article is based on a talk given at the Lift Brussels Workshop and Council launch 4 Dec 2009. As an interaction designer I’m all about reality because making technology liveable or human compliant otherwise, is a big part of what I do. I like to think this means making it relevant to people’s lives. [...]
Spomenik
Saturday, November 28th, 2009www.spomenik.org Spomenik is now part of the Pervasive Monuments project run by Horizon Digital Economy Research run out of the University of Nottingham (UK). Pervasive Monuments began in reality while I was working with Dave Kirk ( now a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Nottingham University) at Microsoft Research Cambridgewhere we were both working on the Family Archive project. [...]
