Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future

This is Alan Chochinov’s presentation at IxD10 (Savannah).

Allan Chochinov-Girls and Women: Objects Lessons in the Primacy of Interaction from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

I posted the video to the blog for 2 reasons

a) It is hugely inspiring. To quote 4 key learnings by Chochinov (during his course at the SVA, New York) in the closing parts of his presentation -

Raise the Stakes: Make it Personal, Make it Urgent

Intervene: Design your products as if they were props in an intervention.

Dont Play Fair: Act like a design thinker, but think like a design activist.

Facilitate: Its not what you design, its not what you make – its what you facilitate.

b) The work shown in the presentation is yet another indicator toward ‘Design Fiction’ explorations which we currently need more of perhaps at Umea. (sorry, US keyboard!)

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Less problem solving by design alone, and more of design-intentions explicit through fiction. For want of a better word – storytelling. (…puke!)

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I love that they use an ethnographic approach to identify trends. Reminds me of the movie ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’ and the way the Coca Cola bottle was perceived by a bunch of tribesfolk in remote Africa. Our urbanfolk arent so different! View the trailer below.

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via article titled ‘Authenticity’ from the blog of Lebbeus Woods.

This image reminded me of an article I read sometime ago called ‘The End of the Classical’ by Peter Eisenman

I loved this poster because it illustrates how notions of ‘experiencing the classical’ have deconstructed themselves. We’re living in an era where rehashing is the classical. McDonald’s, remixes, rehashes, relinks, rethinks – The word ‘Re’ is the new ‘New’. Or is it?

via Photosynth.

Or this…

Today our notions of ‘classical’ (or the ‘original-itself’) are constantly being reinvented and hence removed incrementally from the Original itself.

In the near future, would our tagged, augmented, rehashed, recollective memory of a place, thing or experience itself become a new notion of classical?

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