My bookmarks from the past week:
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy - NYTimes.com
Is ‘keeping up with the neighbors’ incentive to reduce energy consumption? How about head-on competition?
- COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Coming soon to a city near me
- COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Coming soon to a city near me
- From the InternetS of Things to a Web of Things
Dominique Guinard’s slideshow from the LIFT 09 Workshop
- Internet of Things: Roadmap for the Future
Vlad Trifa’s slideshow from the LIFT 09 Workshop
- Wired for Progress: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid
Everything you need to know about the “smart grid” right here
- Hyper Island: Hello IDEO!
Two Hyper Island grads talk about their experience working at Ideo London
- Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation by Eric Paulos
“Ubiquitous technology is with us and is indeed allowing us to communicate, buy, sell, connect, and do miraculous things. However, it is time for this technology to empower us to go beyond finding friends, chatting with colleagues, locating hip bars, and buying music.”
- The Demon-Haunted World - Matt Jones Presentation at Webstock Conference
“Since the 60s we’ve imagined the combination of computers and our environment would create both utopias and dystopias. Since the 80’s we’ve seen academics, artists and corporate R&D labs prototype these futures from the top-down. Now, hackers are building sensors, bots and software into everything around them bottom-up, fast, cheap and out-of-control. They’re creating environments that react, adapt and respond to us - and perhaps more importantly - each other: The Demon-Haunted World. Matt’s session will be a whistlestop tour of those days of future past and pointers to some practical futures we can start building right now, together.”
My bookmarks from the past week:
My bookmarks from the past week:
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Viridian Books
Recommend reading on “Industrial/digital design, sociology of design, bohemians, consumerism, engineering, globalism, architecture, ubicomp, demographics, artists and biographies.”
- Welcome to the Imaginary Gadgets Project | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
The User’s Guide to Imaginary Gadgets. This project is Bruce Sterling’s catalog of the weirdest things imaginable.
- txteagle
“There are over 1.5 billion literate, mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, many living on less than $3 a day. Corporations pay people to accomplish millions of simple text-based tasks. txteagle enables these tasks to be completed via text message by ordinary people around the globe.”
- Playpower: Designing 8-bit learning games for Radically Affordable Computers: ETech 2009 - O’Reilly Conferences, March 09 - 12, 2009, San Jose, CA
Designing 8-bit learning games for Radically Affordable Computers. Think educational Nintendo in India.
- The Quantified Self
Personal informatics blog
- Service Thinking
live|work’s manifesto on service thinking. note to self: read this in two weeks
- Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group » Blog Archive » CIID Workshop
Josh and James from the Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group updated their website with some info about the workshop they taught at CIID.
- Putting technology into context
“During six months design researchers worked directly with Kiva.org and four of its existing microfinance partners in Uganda and Kenya to develop an appropriate technology solution to facilitate the use of their online lending platform.” From Elisava TdD
- Toward Basic Interaction Design
The gap between the design of the user experience and the design of the artifact from Elisava TdD
- Mind the Gap: education, Consultancy and Research at CIID
“The Interaction Design Pilot Year only opened in September 2008, yet the activities already seem to play together in ways that are rewarding yet hard to predict.” From Elsava TdD Magazine
- The Craft of Interaction Design by Gillian Crampton-Smith
From Elisava TdD
- Upload Cinema - Visions of a Future
Amsterdam’s Upload Cinema screens videos found on YouTube and other websites. ‘Visions of a Future’ is the current theme with guest curator Julian Bleecker.
- Interaction Design Pilot Year - gallery of work - Core77
Interaction Design Pilot Year gallery linked on Core77
- Neo-nomad.net » Blog Archive » visualizing travel
Yasmine Abbas mentions our project on her Neo-nomad blog. Thanks Yasmine!
- Ana Amorim
“i have been working on technology as facilitator of interaction and catalyst of social and individual change for the last 5 years.”
- Interaction Design Pilot Year - Course Gallery
A gallery of student work at the Interaction Design Pilot Year. Check it out NOW!
- *1scale1* | !Making suicidal objects remember what they were made for!
“1scale1 is a Critical Research Studio looking into the development of interactive media solutions.”
- Little Machines
“Little Machines is an R+D blog showing the projects and happenings in the Research and Development department at Digit.”
My bookmarks from the past week:
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Technology for Emerging Markets - Microsoft Research
“The Technology for Emerging Markets Group seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people who are increasingly able to afford computing technologies and services.”
- MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - display RSS feeds with Arduino
- Seed: Nepal: Laptop School
“Saving a generation of young students with creative thinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a little green computer.”
- Amazon.com: Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services: Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper: Books
“Designing successful products and services in the digital age requires a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in interaction design, visual design, industrial design, and other disciplines.”
- I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
“And that’s when it hit me: I had gained better location awareness but was losing my sense of place. “
- Design Versus Innovation: The Cranbrook / IIT Debate
“Twenty years ago a seminal article appeared in ID magazine that contrasted two approaches to design and design education… These two separate methods evolved into what are today simply known as “innovation” (or “design thinking”) and “design,” and each has built its own culture within the design profession. Yet some confusion surrounds these concepts, especially about how these two methods interact to deliver products. “
- Cory Doctorow: One Laptop Per Child - what went wrong? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Laptops, not mobile phones, are the means to liberate the developing world
- wanderingjefe - Blogging about my travels and work in Cambodia: January - April 2008.
Jefe Chapin, an IDEO designer, will blog about his three month sabbatical in Cambodia where he will design and develop a low-cost latrine for use in rural settings.