I’ve been privileged in the past few months to help out Tom Klinkowstein on his Day in the life of a designer and her smart things in 2030 project which is launching in a few weeks in Singapore… He’ll be previewing the project at Pratt next week, so if you’re in NY, go check it out and send me pictures!
Update: Official info:
Tom Klinkowstein, President, Media A, LLC (New York), Associate Professor of New Media at Hofstra University and Adjunct Professor of Digital Design at Pratt Institute, will exhibit a large “diagrammatic narrative” about a fictional designer’s day in the year 2030, at the Singapore International Design Festival, Temasek Polytechnic, December 4-7.
A preview of the project is at Pratt Institute’s Manhattan location (Pratt Graduate Communications Design 7th Floor Gallery 144 W. 14 St., New York City) on Friday, November 16 from 6-8pm, as part of a presentation on Experience Design.
In this fictional day, the environment, transportation, objects and people around the designer are embedded with sensors, communication capabilities and intelligence, forming a dense web of interactions and possibilities.
To quote the introduction to the diagram, “The smart objects she surrounds herself with act according to a well-balanced ecology of action/reaction. They are agents of change, challenge, and ease, capturing data, engaging in dialogues among themselves and with the designer, feeding data, compiling and documenting it, and influencing and effecting actions without direct supervision. Reliable, helpful, and supportive of her daily activities, the smart things ingratiate themselves into every niche of her life without imposition. They are the quiet technology we crave.”
Also working on the project were Irene Pereyra (design), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (text), Carolyn Lloyd (editor) and Amarides Montgomery (text).