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I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.
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Provocative Technology
October 17th, 2005 at 3:36 pm 0 comments.Ralph Borland, ITP Alum ’02, has and still is into art making and object making with protest as the catalyst for work. He mentioned his piece, Suited for Subversion that is currently in the MoMA Safe show.
Borland spoke of the game like nature of the protest. Especially in America protests take part in the places set up by the state, penned protest areas, set up by the state. But when protests occur outside of the demarcated places of protest it threatens and provokes the state. The Barcelona based Las Agencias and the White Overall movement both served as inspiration for Suited for Subversion.
Borland has been accepted into the next wave festival in Australia in 2006 where his proposal was to curate a show of different “Provacative Technologies” to be housed in shipping containersin a matter of reuse that he has observed in his hometown of Capetown, South Africa.
His talk here at ITP consisted mostly of briefly showing many of the projects he will be showing in his show within the show in Melbourne and weaving the thread that tied all of them together thematically under the idea of Provocative technology
Very roughly paraphrasing here, by way of Michael Rakowitz:
“Technology does not always offer a solution to social problems, but one can use technology to call enough attention to the social problems that they get solved through policy or other means”
and
“A bandage covers and treats a wound while at the the same time exposing it’s prescense”
Notes from the talk (more…)
extension-of-the-hand
October 17th, 2005 at 2:29 pm 0 comments.In Finland the everyday word for mobile phone is kännykkä meaning “extension-of-the-hand.”
I’ve heard this “extension-of-the-hand” and know that in germany a mobile phone is a “handy”. Searching for this led me upon this text version of our shared mobile future by Marko Ahtisaari Blogging Over Las Vegas.
Link
uhaul or man-with-van
October 5th, 2005 at 11:13 pm 0 comments.for thinking about networks i compared uhaul and man with van.
When presented with the need to relocate ones home and belongings to another part of the city, or even around the block you will probably find your self using a specialized transport network like UHaul or the ubiquitous (in NYC at least) Man-with-Van. Both networks rely on the cities constant state of flux, with people moving up, and down with people leaving and with new arrivals. Each network provides the user the ability to move their ‘stuff’ across the city. In the context of this paper, you are moving to a new neighborhood, and you are either renting a UHaul truck, or, a man and his van.
read the whole thing here
seans birthday! cupcake!
October 5th, 2005 at 11:05 pm 0 comments.
seans birthday!
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perception analyzer
October 5th, 2005 at 11:02 pm 0 comments.In technologies of persuasion class today we had a guest from perception analyzer subject us to the analysis that they sell to major political concerns, advertisers, and television/movie content disseminators. We watched the clip on Frank Luntz from Rushkoffs The Persuaders that aired last year on PBS, and used the technology discussed in said clip for an overly meta moment. I was in the group of people in the ‘client’ portion that observed the real time reactions of my peers as they watched the clip, and reacted to the question “On a scale of 1 to 100 how effective is Frank Luntz being in convincing you of his skill.” Not a clear or easy to responf to question in the context, but it was interesting none the less.
Surprisingly they have a typepad blog
my birthday
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:28 pm 0 comments.im now twenty-nine. crap.
time crisis
October 2nd, 2005 at 12:40 pm 0 comments.
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boy vs. girl gun action. lia kicked my ass though seriously
no parking
September 18th, 2005 at 1:06 am 0 comments.
Originally uploaded by seanaes.
john maeda has a column in business week
September 15th, 2005 at 12:36 pm 0 comments.maeda. writing about simplicity. business week this week.
from the first column…
Design is, to some extent, about prioritizing the foreground experience, but providing a low-energy means of gently shifting focus to the background whenever the greater context of an activity might matter more than the activity itself. Once you have properly situated yourself, you’re free to get lost in the foreground experience again. What’s wrong with getting lost anyway?
being SAFE
September 13th, 2005 at 11:02 pm 0 comments.Safe: Design Takes On Risk
Exhibition at MoMA opening october 16th 2005
“Designers are trained to balance risk with protection and to mediate between disruptive change and normalcy; good design goes hand in hand with personal needs, providing protection and security without sacrificing innovation and invention. SAFE redirects the pursuit of beauty toward the appreciation of economy of function and technology.”
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