Making the intangible, tangible.

“The Institute for Digital Biology researches next steps in the evolution of the internet, where websites and services develop into living creatures.”
This scenario lives in the mind of Walewijn den Boer, graduated from KABK in 2010.

During the exhibition, visitors were able to feed a colony of microscopical pop-up creatures, save Chinese websites from a pageview-shortage, preserve an Amazone tribe from extinction by subscribing to its homepage and view a short documentary on how the living internet established itself

via http://www.nextnature.net/2011/01/the-institute-for-digital-biology/

KIN – some great ideas killed.

Why do I blog this? – Because I’m inspired by alot of ideas that died without proper trial on this user experience. I wanted to preserve the best parts of it for posterity before it faded away in the dying pixels of fickle public memory.

BoEl – an energy efficient ambient interface

This was a project done by my dear friend Sara Tunheden at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm.

BoEL is an experimental social ambient interface and web service that presents daily consumption figures to home owners and neighbours to promote joint savings and foster competitive energy saving behaviours. The service includes an ambient lamp that provides feedback on the energy consumption in the household and these interfaces are installed so that the neighbours can observe each others energy status.

This is one of the many projects the II is working on to spread awareness about energy consumption through design provocations and probes that affect behavior positively.

Oh, and I happened to play a cameo in her amazing video too! This is an edited version. Hopefully I’ll get my hands on the full version soon! :)