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.”