#design research

[beeonkeh]

this one goes out to all my fashion history girlies

part of my summer journey has been reconnecting to my culture by researching bulgarian cultural wear for design projects and putting together my own dress <33

[informedinnovationinc]

Nathan Fielder calls FAA 'dumb' after agency rejects 'The Rehearsal' findings

The comedian appeared on CNN to discuss his experience flying a Boeing 737 during the season two finale of his HBO show.

If you haven't watched season 2 of "The Rehearsal", you're missing an amazing pop-culture implementation of design research and thinking to solve a serious human factors (in the most fundamental sense) problem... Very entertaining too

www.informedinnovationinc.com

[codeandcanvas]

Chez Rio is open!

I built a Gemini capsule. Not the Google one, but the tiny space-capsule sort. You can reach it at gemini://mariobreskic.de/ using a Gemini client such as Lagrange.

I have been meaning to do this for a while. Now I finally have a backstage area where I can get properly weird about art, creativity, and design. I am apparently into building rooms lately.

My father built rooms, too. Whole buildings, actually. Rest in peace, Dad. Thy will be done.

This Tumblr is the more relaxed room. As the new description puts it, Code and Canvas is my “after-hours café for exploration, practice, and the work around the work.” Perhaps it is also a little like the garage where you used to hang out with friends and shoot the shit.

I have started investing more time in deepening my studies and expertise, but progress is glacial. Artists are often torn between the world and the otherworld. Perhaps it would help to set aside a protected stretch of time specifically for the world.

A room in time where flow can happen.

I’ll look into this. Hafta. My dudes, build your stuff!

[manescroissant]

Poudre dump 1

I though I was settling on the design of the left, second row but it failed to convey the information I wanted from her design so it's back to the working board. This is why peer review is important.

It read as too elegant and brawler.

So we get rid of the gold and try to push it more tinkery, or more punk-y... It probably needs more purple in the design too

[mikemakespots]

autopilot swiping reels

[drawdownbooks]

NERD — New Experimental Research in Design 2 Available at Draw Down

Design is inextricably interwoven with all aspects of life and has even produced its own astonishing genre of research. #Design research opens up new perspectives of interdisciplinary empiricism, joining with economics, sociology, #technology, and #philosophy to produce analyses and syntheses that get to the heart of daily life.

The twelve contributions from international authors that comprise this book vividly make this case. They cover the relationship between subject and object, animation, all forms of representation, #designactivism, and many other themes. This book is intended to inspire discussion. Its target reader is anyone seeking to expand their understanding of design, to fundamentally improve their praxis, and to more deeply appreciate life in all of its aspects.

Edited by Michelle Christensen, Wolfgang Jonas, Ralf Michel

Published by Birkhäuser, 2022 Hardcover, 160 pages, 119 b&w images, 6.45 × 9 inches

[visionofthefuture95]

Phillips Wearables / Phillips Electronics / Vision Of The Future / Multimedia / 1996

The namesake of this blog and my social media handles is Phillips Electronics Vision Of The Future(VOTF) concept developed in the mid 90s. Created during a time where corporations were still optimistic that their products value could genuinely improve customers lives and that the dangers of globalism should be approached cautiously came a series of conceptual design products that resemble much of the "smart" technology seen today. Products that were supposed to turn your home into a smart house that could automatically adjust to the users needs(Alexa,Siri?), wearable electronics predating the smartphone by about a decade, electronic screens that contained photo and audio "memories" like some kind of digital postcard. VOTF was an ambitious project that was only made possible by the time it found itself in, a time before the world wide web and apps dumbed down so that three year olds can get addicted to screens now. Vision of The Future could only have been imagined by a people who experienced the world before the flattening of the imagination cause by the world wide web. A time where technology was approached with unbridled optimism and not taken for granted as an extension of our lives, in many ways it was the wild west for these ideas, and although the decades that followed led to some of the most obscene censorship, dismantlement of net neutrality, and unprecedented attacks on personal freedom and privacy seen in the western world, the spirit of VOTF remains as a reminder what was once possible and what what might be possible again. My blog is dedicated to design research from this period of time and attempts to recapture that flame so it can be reestablished in a new way. Design research for new design practices. Not in a hauntological sense where references are interpreted through the haze of notalgia but as a bulwark against the neverending tide of nihilism and hopelessness that plagues young people today. There is a sense that we are living at the end of history, everything is a remix and nothing original can possibly exist again, but it doesn't need to be this way. Music is Macquaire Ridge by Boards of Canada a bonus track from the Japanese version of The Campfire Headphase(2005). Boards of Canada are a Scottish-Canadian electronic duo whose music has had a profound effect on the creation of this blog and whose track One Very Important Thought has become a sort of underlying philosophical guide for Vision Of The Future.

[the-undergrad-muse]

Friday,

end of week # 2 for the 12 week design fellowship -

we are in the exploratory research phase and I believe I am leaning towards designing something under the umbrella of making mainstream educational institutions and classrooms more accessible for people with disabilities. let's see how this unfolds.

another broad theme I am fascinated with is making internet more accessible.

loved waking up early today and having a hearty summery breakfast!🍳