I Wish This Was by Candy Chang lets people have their say about the vacant buildings in their city. An easy tool to voice what they want and where they want it. Just fill them out and put them on abandoned buildings and beyond.
The stickers are custom vinyl and they can be easily removed without damaging property. It’s a fun, low-barrier tool to provide civic input on-site, and the responses reflect the hopes, dreams, and colourful imaginations of different neighborhoods.
With HardSketcher, when a new email message arrives, water is released into one of three tubes representing your work, family and friends. By controlling the valve on each tube, you can control how much communication you receive from each group. For example, you could completely shut off work after 5pm
Screen Wallby SOFTlabnyc. “The idea is a screen wall that would have a flexible “louver.” The basic unit is a clip. As the clip rotates the louver rotates with it.”
I’m very lucky to have been part of the Summer School at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design) for the last week.
Matt Cottam ran the show with his wife Maia and took us through “an analogue exploration of interaction design” via a combination of classes, video screenings, discussions and hands on exercises to help reinforce the things we covered.
We discussed information design, service design, smart objects and urban informatics and we produced analogue infographics, performed service design roleplay and annotated street scenes with the information that could be collected, displayed and acted upon in a fictitious ubicomp utopia or dystopia. Matt finished the week by blowing everybody’s minds with his recent personal projects and talking about fablabs and the future of making things.
I had a fantastic time at Summer School and would recommend it to anyone interested in breaking free of screen based design, moving into the world of interaction design for physical/ubiquitous computing and exploring the services that they can enable. Even though I know a fair amount about the topics covered it was truly inspiring to hear someone like Matt talk about them in the way he did. I feel I’ve learned such a lot from him and consolidated even more knowledge in the week I spent there through the activities and discussions with other students.
Thanks so much to everyone that took part in the first week. I’m sad I can’t be there for the second and third weeks but I look forward to hearing the reports. A big thank you to Alie from CIID for making sure everyone was looked after and a huge thanks to Matt and Maia. I really feel I made some new friends over the last week and I hope to be able to stay in touch with everyone.
La Représentation des Statistiques by Xavier Barrade is a project about the visualisation of statistical data. The first part studies the Powerpoint style and history, the second part experiments alternative ways to represent numerical data about various subjects, like the rise of the real estate, proportions of a type glyph, or doughnut sales.
Brien Lane. Actual demographics taken from the 1996 Australian census. The whole alleyway has been painted with statistical information - those lines are bar charts.
Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site. They serve as reminders of the tragedy that took place on an otherwise anonymous street corner, and as quiet statements in support of cyclists right to safe travel.
Director: Christopher Hewitt DP: Will Humphris Production Company: Knucklehead Audio: Shervin Shaeri Edit: Dan Sherwen at Final Cut Post Production: The Mill London Colourist: Aubrey Woodiwiss
