Rahul Sen: Future-Sense » SVA 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 Objects Lessons in the Primacy of Interaction @chochinov http://www.future-sense.net/2010/03/06/girls-and-women-objects-lessons-in-the-primacy-of-interaction-thankschochinov/ http://www.future-sense.net/2010/03/06/girls-and-women-objects-lessons-in-the-primacy-of-interaction-thankschochinov/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:11:23 +0000 rahulsen79 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=312 Continue reading →]]> 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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