Bohemians, Behemoths & other such Beasts

From the mind-cavern of Asha N M

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Royal College of Art

Interesting program that seems in line with our group’s topic for this semester - Architecture in/of Social Movements

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are-men-talking-too-much - time who's dominating the conversation

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Who Rules the Internet? A New Website Tells Us Why Women Should Think about Surveillance - The Ladies Finger

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The Next Phase Of UX: Designing Chatbot Personalities

When the conversation is the interface, experience design is all about crafting the right words.

Howdy, Botkit, etc.

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Abi Jones compares human-to-human and human-computer conversation and interaction to explain how their differences impact system design. Learn what makes for great human-computer speech interaction...

Juuuust missed it.

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Radiolab: Talking to Machines

If you don’t know Radiolab already – I urge you to check it out.

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Talking to Machines

What can machines tell us about being human?

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I/O/I. The Senses of Machines - Design - Domus

An exhibition reflects on the relationship between man and machine at the Disseny Hub Barcelona.

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TS - The light sample program on PureData

The switch seems to work but not with the LED....

Link to the sample program I’m using here: https://puredata.info/downloads/gem/documentation/manual/manual/lighting

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A city needs queerness

Queer spaces in cities are not defined by the mere presence of gays, lesbians and transgenders, but by how we are living in that space

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What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'

The 2014 online hate-storm presaged the tactics of the Trump-loving far right movement. Prominent critics of the president elect should take note

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Best Flamewar Ever (HD) (Eddo Stern 2007)

This is "Best Flamewar Ever (HD) (Eddo Stern 2007)" by Eddo Stern on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Top inspiration this semester, I guess...

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Inconvenient

Poland is located in the center of Europe, which was rather inconvenient during World War II.

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Encountered some new hilarity today.

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When I try to channel some Dunne & Raby

Something is beginning to take shape. Ideas, inspirations, references:

<3 Ethical Things: http://automato.farm/portfolio/ethical-things/

McLuhan is never a bad idea - http://marshallmcluhan.com/biography/?fb_ref=Default%2C%40Total

Some good design fiction, because I love good narratives: http://noahraford.com/?p=1349

Futuristic IKEA catalog: https://medium.com/design-fictions/an-ikea-catalog-from-the-near-future-e293938148bc#.uujp2qdm9

Basically everything on this page and this website in general: http://www.postscapes.com/2015-16/top-design-fiction-project/

Apparently, es gibt Sexismus in Deutschland auch :’( http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/02/01/germanys-problem-with-women/#7fdf3f7f1ef0

http://kleinerdrei.org/2013/01/normal-ist-das-nicht/

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Questions

Questions as goals:

How does, should, or could Participatory Design intersect with critical design, speculative design, feminist HCI, action research, design fictions, HCI for peace, and so forth?

How can Participatory Design help designers move from helping people do what they are already doing towards helping them make better decisions in future projects?

Source: http://tochi.acm.org/re-imagining-participatory-design/

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Project References

Not references really. More like goals.

ACM TOCHI - Re-imagining Participatory Design http://tochi.acm.org/re-imagining-participatory-design/ - I frankly don’t think I’m upto this but it sounds like a good goal to work towards. Also, it is exactly the theme I want to work under!

XCOAX - http://xcoax.org/ - Because it will be in Lisbon. Hehe. No seriously, it is broad enough to fit my work, so why not?!

Schloss Post - http://schloss-post.com/ - a new extension of the amazing Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

And now for some real references & inspirations:

The Critical Engineering Manifesto - https://criticalengineering.org/

Practically all of Julian Oliver’s works - https://julianoliver.com/output/

...to be continued

Listening to: I’m a believer - Monkees in the Mensa

PS: I’m amazed at my consistency in producing work only in the eleventh hour. Sigh...

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Projekt Ideen. Oder?

So pausing K-drama helped improve my thought-flow. No surprises there. On another note, I realised my blog needs to be more project reporting and less crabby diary entry. I’m humbled by the reference collecting efforts of my classmates. I don’t know how to do that. I mean I normally look for references after I have an idea in my head.

Anyway.

Listening to: Bulla by Rabbi