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| ==== Improving Reality 2013 ==== | ==== Improving Reality 2013 ==== | ||
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| - | [[https://twitter.com/ | + | ==== notes/annotations/digressions ==== |
| - | === notes/ | ||
| + | ====Timo Arnall==== | ||
| - | ===Timo Arnall=== | ||
| + | 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. | ||
| - | Technology and culture are intertwined. It's important to work with the | + | Designers should work communicatively. We need to develop new metaphors to understand how people understand technology. |
| - | 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. | + | |
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| - | Designers should work communicatively. We need to develop new metaphors | + | |
| - | to understand how people understand technology. | + | |
| RFID as seamless enabler of frictionless capitalis | RFID as seamless enabler of frictionless capitalis | ||
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| * Anne Balsamo. " | * Anne Balsamo. " | ||
| * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials | * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials | ||
| - | * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and | + | * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and what's possible |
| - | what's possible | + | |
| * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome" | * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome" | ||
| - | * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and | + | * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and technology) |
| - | technology) | + | |
| * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914 | * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914 | ||
| * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field) | * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field) | ||
| - | ===Keller Easterling=== | + | ====Keller Easterling==== |
| Infrastructure technology has an abstract logic. It is built through recipes, replicable | Infrastructure technology has an abstract logic. It is built through recipes, replicable | ||
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| To hack into this system, we need an alternative, | To hack into this system, we need an alternative, | ||
| - | ===Frank Swain === | + | ====Frank Swain ==== |
| Koreshan system: "We live inside out" | Koreshan system: "We live inside out" | ||
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| - | ===Tom Armitage=== | + | ====Tom Armitage==== |
| Literary operator: a collaboration with Jeff Noon >> http:// | Literary operator: a collaboration with Jeff Noon >> http:// | ||
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| - | ===Paul Graham Raven=== | + | ====Paul Graham Raven==== |
| Infrastructure fiction | Infrastructure fiction | ||
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| 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... | 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... | ||
| - | ===Maja Kuzmanovic=== | + | ====Maja Kuzmanovic==== |
| see transcription at [[improving realities]] | see transcription at [[improving realities]] | ||
| - | ===Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg=== | + | ====Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg==== |
| Use design to seek out better questions. Ask better questions rather than solving the wrong problems. | Use design to seek out better questions. Ask better questions rather than solving the wrong problems. | ||
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| * Synthetic Aesthetics | * Synthetic Aesthetics | ||
| - | ===Tobias Revell=== | + | ====Tobias Revell==== |
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| Jon Ronson. "The psychopath test" | Jon Ronson. "The psychopath test" | ||
| - | ===Hide & Seek=== | + | ====Hide & Seek==== |
| 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) | 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" | Place where you're playing matters (against the "magic circle" | ||
| - | ===Farida Vis=== | + | ====Scott Smith==== |
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| + | summariesed at http:// | ||
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| + | ====Farida Vis==== | ||
| Big data, " | Big data, " | ||
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| "The Boy kings" by Kate Losse. http:// | "The Boy kings" by Kate Losse. http:// | ||
| - | ===Georgina Voss=== | + | ====Georgina Voss==== |
| The concept of the entrepreneur was developed in 1920s & 30s, reaching its high point in the 70s (at the same time as " | 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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| * Technology as ' | * Technology as ' | ||
| - | ===Paula Le Dieu=== | + | ====Paula Le Dieu==== |
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| - | ===Justin Pickard=== | + | ====Justin Pickard==== |
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| Charismatic megaengineering similar to " | Charismatic megaengineering similar to " | ||
| - | compare and contrast: | + | compare and contrast: |
| - | {{internet.org <-> info-ladies in Bangladesh}} | + | It's a question of ' |
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| * http:// | * http:// | ||
| - | * Martin | + | * Martin Jakubowski |
| - | opensourceecology.org | + | |
| * Zimbabwe Bush pump paper on appropriate tech. | * Zimbabwe Bush pump paper on appropriate tech. | ||
| * Wikihouse | * Wikihouse | ||
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| However: not to confuse morality and appropriateness. | However: not to confuse morality and appropriateness. | ||
| - | ===discussions=== | + | ====discussions==== |
| Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; | Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; | ||
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| Revolution: in sheer numbers, but with the ability to dig down into individual stories. | Revolution: in sheer numbers, but with the ability to dig down into individual stories. | ||
| - | Open is a myth that should be cracked open (watch out for open but not | + | Open is a myth that should be cracked open (watch out for open but not accessible). |
| - | accessible). | + | |
| The 'good life' is not unattainable it is unmaimtaimable | The 'good life' is not unattainable it is unmaimtaimable | ||
| Ref anab Jain essay 're. Design fiction and macro engineering | 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) | (bidirectional liquid democracy, recruit ppl to help inform/make decisions before delegated votes) | ||
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