Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » Uncategorized http://www.future-sense.net Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Connected: A documentary about our interdependant lives. http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/15/connected-a-documentary-about-our-interdependant-lives/ http://www.future-sense.net/2011/09/15/connected-a-documentary-about-our-interdependant-lives/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:42 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=763 Connected, a new documentary about our interdependence to connectiveness in today’s world. Seems quite nice, definitely worth watching!

Will hope to catch the screening in NYC…

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The sheer genius of Kevin Slavin at TED. Wow!

I’m currently reading his article in the book ‘Talk to Me’ about leaving our reality and eyes alone while augmenting our worldly experiences.

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Just arrived!

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Click here to listen to the sound of pattering rain on my railing in Stockholm

 

 

 

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I recently spoke at Media Evolution 2011 at Malmö in the beautiful southern parts of Sweden. My talk was loosely based around the theme: ‘Seeing the Future through User’s eyes’ and I presented my thoughts on the ‘IxD Bauhaus’, design evolution, Kevin Kelly’s ‘What Technology Wants’ and concepts related to object-envy, nostalgia during the design process etc.

The talks are available here. There is a well-documented Flickrstream here.

There were several really incredible presentations at the conference. My favorites were the keynote speeches by Paolla Antonelli and Amber Case, presentations by Luke Williams, Riyad Minty and several others.

Massive thanks at Media Evolution organizers, especially Martin Thörnkvist and Yasemin Arhaan Modeer for a fantastic conference. I had the honor of sharing the stage with some of the brightest minds around, learnt a lot about public speaking and also made some great friends. Thanks!

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Some amazing photograph’s from the Media Evolution Conference in Malmö.

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Just stumbled upon this great interview. Very insightful but it just sounds so much wiser coming from Bill Moggridge himself.

This is an interview with Bill Moggridge where he talks about how we can make design that really matters. The interview is made by Designboost and is one of three made this spring on the topic Design Beyond Design, which is also the theme for Designboost 2011.

Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.

Bill Moggridge recently relased the book, video and website Designing Media.

Check out the earlier interview in the series with designer Arik Levy.

http://davidreport.com/201104/bill-moggridge-interview-theme-design-design/

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As someone who is finicky about keeping fingerprints, cheek-stains and other stains away from my screens, this image made me laugh.

found via the Umea IxD blog.

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A very exciting video from the Microsoft Research Labs.

via Engadget.

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Yet another surface, multi-touch peddling future concept which shows a clean, simple World where everything just happens seamlessly. I like the utopian aspiration, but find it hard to believe that we’re going to interact with screens as much. I think the future’s going to have a lot of objects, gestures, screens and a lot of other stuff we havent yet imagined.

We’ll probably be using them in combination and based on the activities that we’re performing.

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