The previous post on the new puritain reminded me of a movement in Québec that started a few years ago called “Simplicité Volontaire” which is explained on this french website and which basically advocates a different and richer way of living that gets away from our conventional understanding of being rich (ie involving money). What… Continue reading Simplicité Volontaire
New experiment on its way…
A next step for me which i shall implement in the next week is aimed at discovering what values come out of sharing a unique object and being able to see the hisory of interactions that people will have with it. Being inspired by the chain-letter phenomenon, i thought i might try a chain-object event… Continue reading New experiment on its way…
The New Puritain
This Guardian article descibes an interesting social twist on current concerns about consumerism. “So, with a few grand gestures and some high-profile converts New Puritanism offers a powerful escape route from our impulsive, reward-driven lifestyles. It might just have the potential to stave off the horrors promised by an out-of-control consumerist culture in which, according… Continue reading The New Puritain
Interdependant systems
As this IDFuel article adresses, we find ourselves looking at complex systems present in nature and enviously trying to mimick them. “The natural world has evolved over billions of years to include an unbelievably complex array of interactions and dependencies, most of which are unknown, and many of which are remarkably unexpected. Intentional design, while… Continue reading Interdependant systems
Cooperative design
From the communal ovens of europe: “These common ovens also encouraged diversity for the “loaves going into the oven were slashed with distinct patterns so each family got back its own–really its own, since the grain from which it was made was grown on their farm.” via IDFuel This makes me think about the power… Continue reading Cooperative design
Shared eating
On the sharing front here is an interesting project about sharing your lunch with very little inconvenience by Sternform in Germany.
Nostalgia and technology
Hmm, interesting exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art in Salt Lake City called: Nostalgia and Technology : Embracing the New through Art and Design From the scientific instruments that shared shelf space with art objects and taxidermy in the collections of 17th-century nobility to the cabinet radio disguised as period furniture, technology… Continue reading Nostalgia and technology
Greed and product design
Ok so in recent news iPod is getting sued by a group of Nano users on the grounds that it scratches too easily and not only should they get their moeny back but a share of the profits as well. This 37 signals article goes on to show, by the simple display of comments, how… Continue reading Greed and product design
Computers for art
I am facinated by the interest that people (gouvernments, designers, artists, Oprah) have all of a sudden about the environment, waste, global warming. Like this is something that just hit them… sigh… Buckminster Fuller must be stirring in his grave. So on the critical side of things we find Computers for art where a non-profit… Continue reading Computers for art
Emotion fuels innovation
On my quest for the perfect thesis projet i will look at how we interact with products around us, what fuels the consumerism patterns we know in order to derail them and direct them to shared and communal experiences. So a starting point for me is to understand the consumer and what is the landscape… Continue reading Emotion fuels innovation