Creative Residency. A new industrial revolution is upon us. This self-fulfilling prophecy, first announced by Wired and subsequently picked up by The Economist, helped to make an even more striking comparison with another reality, the one told by the macro-economic indicators that marked the steady decline of industrial production which was expressed by the gross domestic product. Since then, the relentless media coverage has altered our perceptions of space and time: overnight —and without warning— we found ourselves in the future. The spread of 3D printers installed in the dusty garages of makers around the world sold for only a couple hundred euro helped to fuel the the more sensationalist features of the media’s morbid attachment to the new manufacturing technologies. Meanwhile, fascination passed from a state of techno–utopian infatuation to that of collective hallucination. But what does the future hold? ** Source: Maker Media. Inf_overload : Making Making@PoliMi #M@P #making...
Making@PoliMi | Programma eventi | FARB-MakeFactory. Una settimana di eventi per esplorare insieme la relazione fra design e i fenomeni emergenti della fabbricazione digitale e dell’autoproduzione. Cos’è Making@Polimi (M@P) è un’iniziativa promossa dal Dipartimento di Design del Politecnico di Milano. Attraverso un bando aperto sono state selezionate cinque idee di prodotto che combinano design, tecnologia e scienza realizzate da studenti, giovani ricercatori e professionisti esperti di autoproduzione, open design, interaction design, design generativo, fabbricazione analogica e digitale.
Come si svolge Dal 5 al 9 maggio, durante cinque giorni di workshop, la Scuola del Design si trasformerà in una “Una fabbrica politecnica”, dove Il makerspace temporaneo connesso al Sistema dei Laboratori di Design supporterà i team di progetto per trasformare le idee in prodotti, prossimi ad approdare sul mercato. Cosa succede durante? Vai al programma integrale degli eventi Vai alla pagina con la descrizione degli eventi della settimana.
Approfondisci. Making@PoliMi | Programma eventi | FARB-MakeFactory. Making @ PoliMi - Call for Projects. Screw:) Making@Polimi - Open Call. Ci siamo! Il FARB è finalmente entrato nel nel clou delle sue attività. Dopo diverse settimane di intenso lavoro è finalmente arrivato il momento di presentarvi Making@Polimi (M@P), l’occasione per sperimentare sul campo la relazione tra il design e i fenomeni emergenti della fabbricazione digitale e dell’autoproduzione. Durante la settimana dal 5 al 9 di Maggio verrà allestito all’interno della Scuola del Design del Politecnico di Milano un Makerspace temporaneo connesso al Sistema dei Laboratori di Design. Questo spazio di sperimentazione sarà messo a disposizione di cinque team multidisciplinari, selezionati attraverso un apposito bando, per trasformare i loro progetti in prodotti ready to market.
Per maggiori informazioni su M@P vi consigliamo di visitare la pagina ufficiale dell’iniziativa con tutti i dettagli per presentare le candidature. Le iscrizioni a M@P sono aperte da oggi. Non esitate a contattarci per qualsiasi ulteriore informazione sul programma e le iniziative. Subalterno1: Underdogs. Subalterno1, in collaborazione con Autoproduzioni Reloaded Lab, presenta “Underdogs”, un'esposizione dei lavori svolti dagli studenti che hanno frequentato Autoproduzioni Reloaded, Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale, della Scuola del Design del Politecnico di Milano.
In apertura: Michela Cavalleri e Sarah Richiuso, Edges, protesi di nuova generazione. Sopra: Federico Digirolamo, Giorgio Forti e Marta Lo Bianco, Chocomatica, temperatrice domestica per il cioccolato Il corso, partendo da alcuni degli scenari emergenti sul fronte del progetto (autoproduzione, DIY, digital fabrication, fabbricazione avanzata, fabbing, critical design, crowdsourcing, ecc.) ha cercato di mettere a fuoco una visione critica socio-tecnica, in grado di abilitare gli studenti a sviluppare nuove competenze per affrontare un’esperienza progettuale inedita.
Ksenia Rogacheva, Folk Stitch, parete decorativa attrezzata Carolina Becatti, Silvia Giustozzi e Maddalena Salvetti, Teardrop, My Phytocosmetic Lab. Coursera.org. Home | See Project | Sharing Experience Europe. Alessandro Carelli portfolio sett 2013 by Alessandro Carelli. Paolo @ Free University Bolzano-Bozen / Freie Universität Bozen / Libera Università di Bolzano. By Design or By Disaster - Hands-on conference - 26-28th Sept - Italy. Io9. Wanted: Two Senior Service Designers at @FutureGov. How should citizens access public services online now and in the future? Starting immediately and initially on a contract until Christmas, we’re looking for one full time and one part time senior service designer to help us find the answer. Ideally you would have experience in public services but other regulated services (banking, telcos, airlines etc) are relevant. Making change happen in big bureaucracies is hard.
You should be rigorous in your work, always seek to validate any ideas, and keep the citizen’s perspective at the centre of your thinking. You should be awesome at: - creating user personas (personae?) - organising, facilitating and leading workshops - 1-1 interviews - stakeholder management (making sure everyone is on board, from the bigwigs to the users) - keeping everyone informed and involving the right people in decisions - explaining the design process to people who don’t get it - coaching and helping more junior designers in their work *Gluten free alternatives available.
Understanding human behaviour: taking a more complex approach | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional. Recent advances in behavioural economics, cognitive neuroscience, network theory and social psychology more generally have overturned our common sense understanding of human behaviour. The rational, autonomous, self-aware agent acting in his own self-interest according to static preferences has faded as we realise that behaviour is largely irrational, unconscious and driven by external contexts.
Ladies and gentleman, Homo economicus has left the building. Theory-in-theory vs theory-in-practice Despite the volume and accessibility of this new theoretical knowledge, behaviour change practice has been struggling to keep pace. As a result, we have seen a plethora of conferences, white papers and "units" emerge as both public and private sector organisations scramble to work out how this new knowledge can be ethically and effectively applied. Our obsession with surveys A shift towards ethnography and co-creation Localised, targeted insight Steven Johnson is @Considered_.
Expose 3D printed desktop speakers by simon ellison. Jul 03, 2013 expose 3D printed desktop speakers by simon ellison ‘expose’ 3D printed desktop speakers by simon ellisonall images courtesy simon ellison new zealander designer simon ellison has utilized multi material 3D printing methods to bring forth the idea of a new manufacturing technique into the realm of speaker drivers. with this, the additive combination-material print process results as a solid construction, allowing for complex and structurally intricate details. working together with an audio engineer, the speaker is conceived to push the boundaries of traditional hi-fi sound design, exploring the ratios of digital material production. taking just over nine hours to print and three hours to clean, the driver assembly was put together with the coil and magnet of a traditional driver, and wired to allow capabilities for a mono speaker. the complete component construction fits within a glass housing, fully equipped with an RCA terminal. exploded view – component details Simon.Elison.
Design ROI - Measurable Design by Antti Pitkänen. Design for Public Good. First Look: Fab Unveils The Winners Of Its Design Open Call. Fab.com may be the web’s fastest growing e-commerce site, but its ambitions don’t stop there. The real aim, its founders have said, is to grow Fab into a global design brand--a stylish alternative to giants like Amazon and Wal-Mart--and the company has already designed over 3000 original products to that end.
In March, Fab announced another initiative for expanding its offerings: a crowdsourced competition, calling for designers around the world to submit their ideas for the company’s next big product. Now, they’ve narrowed the field down to 12 finalists--two of which you can see here for the first time--and announced a second competition, coinciding with this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. The first Disrupting Design competition, which was held last month in Milan, drew submissions from over 150 international designers. "The winning designs all embody the Fab ethos," says Shellhammer, Fab’s founder and chief design officer. Visualizing the School of Design.
Untitled. Rethinking Design Thinking. Posted by Don Norman | 19 Mar 2013 | Comments (15) OK, I take it back. Well, some of it anyway. In June, 2010, I posted an essay on Core77 entitled "Design Thinking: A Useful Myth. " (Got a lot of responses, that one did.) I am here to say that I now have rethought my position. I've spent the last few months pondering the way designers work while I was hidden away, revising my book The Design of Everyday Things (DOET). Design methods. Designers have developed a number of techniques to avoid being captured by too facile a solution. Design thinking. Although I still stick to my major point that design thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators have practiced it—I now do believe that designers have a special claim to it.
Of course, there is more to design thinking than what is described by the double-diamond or the iterative cycle of HCD. What should this collection of techniques be called? The Power of Stupid Questions What is a stupid question? Design for death - designboom. Design for death for the results of Design For Death Architecture, go to: deadline for submission of entries : april 17th, 2013 published june 11th, 2013 theme: DESIGN FOR DEATH the jury was composed of: Richard Meier, architect Ray Ceasar, artist Birgit Lohmann, editor-in-chief designboom Alan Creedy, chief strategist, Creedy & Company Christine Pepper, Chief Executive Officer, NFDA Ang Ziqian , Founder, ACM FOUNDATION Lee Poh Wah, Chief Executive Officer, LIEN FOUNDATION organized by designboom, in collaboration withwith the LIEN FOUNDATION and ACM FOUNDATION, and supported by the NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (NFDA) 2050 designers from 96 different countries participated ... and the winning entries are ECO/GREEN DEATHCARE CATEGORY: first prize 25,000 euro second prize 10,000 euro third prize 5,000 euro WRAPPING OF MORTALITY CATEGORY: first prize 25,000 euro SPECIAL JURY AWARD: 5,000 euro.
Learn Interaction Design and Open Design at SUPSI. Good news! From the Autumn of this year I will be lecturing how to develop Open Design processes and how to manage their business models and communities at SUPSI, in Lugano, Switzerland, in their Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design. Here in this post you can find more information about the two courses I’m lecturing and about the scholarships that are available. Above you can see the infographic of the structure of the course, and here’s the Master program overview: Designing Advanced Artifacts, Environments and Services The Master in Interaction design is a program that combines design, new media, programming and physical computing in one study program addressing the realization of projects in which the interaction between the design culture and the technological development allows to generate design driven innovations. The MAS in Interaction Design offers to students specialized knowledge and skills of Interaction Design.
Scholarships available! 01. Description Objectives. Design & Thinking - a documentary on design thinking. PhD Studentship - Loughborough University. I Giovedì del Design 10/01/2013 – Trasformazioni affini. Video streaming by Ustream Il prossimo Giovedì 10 Gennaio 2013 dalle 19.30 alle 22.30, presso la Design Library di Milano ( l’osservatorio Digicult ( organizza, con la collaborazione di Media Haka ( l’incontro “Trasformazioni Affini” Quindici professionisti, provenienti da differenti campi disciplinari e lavorativi, rifletteranno sui temi della cultura, dell’arte e del design e di come essi possano essere trasformati in reali fattori di innovazione sociale da una generazione di professionisti ibridi che operano e si muovono a cavallo tra sperimentazione tecnologico/scientifica, dinamiche professionali in networking e peer-to-peer, filosofie scalabili di collaborazione e co-produzione, filiere produttive tra start up e investitori del settore IT, tecnologie open source e di rete atte a innescare dinamiche profittevoli e meritocratiche per la produzione di un oggetto.
A cura di: Con la partecipazione di: Designer-Generated Content | Slowd | Microfactories. Ho deciso di analizzare alcune delle piattaforme di open innovation per il design di prodotto attive in Italia, perché guardo con interesse alle opportunità che questi servizi di intermediazione/disintermediazione potrebbero rappresentare per facilitare l’incontro produttori e progettisti. Sono mosso dalla volontà di comprendere in quale modo operano, secondo quali criteri e attraverso quali strumenti: se si muovono all’interno, o all’esterno dei contesti consolidati; o se generano nuovi spazi e nuove opportunità ancora da esplorare per il design. Per far ciò, ho preso in esame cinque progetti italiani già attivi: Youtool, Slow-d, Designeyed, Garagedesign e Designmood che, dopo aver analizzato singolarmente, proverò a metterli a confronto, e tirare le somme di quello che ho capito. A quali risorse ha accesso una comunità urbana nel raggio di quaranta chilomeri? Il binomio Design / Start-Up – nel senso più comune dei termini – ritengo non sia così scontato.
LocalData, An App That Helps Communities Do Their Own Urban Planning. Imagine you’re a community organizer in Detroit. You want to convert an abandoned lot into a community garden, and to back up your case, you plan a local survey of families who might use it. You organize a band of volunteers--mostly teens and retirees--who are willing to canvas the neighborhood. You arm them with your paper survey and send them off. After a few weeks, the team has collected a couple hundred data points. Then the real work begins: You must transcribe every survey by hand and pay an urban planner to analyze and map the results. It’s an expensive and tedious process--and in many cases, it’s out of reach for people interested in effecting change in their own communities. “All across the nation, community groups are out in their neighborhoods, collecting information about where they live,” says urban planner Alicia Rouault.
How does LocalData work? Rouault, Hampel, and Singh developed the app while working with urban planners and community advocates in Detroit.
Design_Film. Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit.