#mediaarchitecture

[asiandavinci]

✨ Dynamic Matrix Facade | Where Architecture Meets Digital Art ✨

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[leonoremio]

High-end industrial lobby - Design Study

[asha-nm]

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/

[asha-nm]

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...

[asha-nm]

I receive an art book and I still struggle to think

I’m thrilled at having obtained a free copy of a catalogue of Johannes Ilmari Auerbach at the Haus am Horn today. No, no, don’t get all excited - you have to pay for it. I got it free because I work there.

Anyway, the reason I’m so thrilled is because the exhibition of Auerbach’s works at the HaH is one of the few art exhibitions I’ve truly enjoyed. It isn’t so abstract that I have to pretentiously interpret all kinds of heavy thoughts from what I see. Nor is it so suffocatingly classical and thorough that I need to watch a lot of trashy bollywood movies to recover. Strikes a nice balance that appeals to my simple mind.

So how then is my simple mind going to come up with a project concept this time around? I really want to have something concrete at the end of this semester! I have had enough ‘conceptual works’ for a lifetime now.

So if not anything let me just list out crappy things I do that hinder my work flow:

1. Thinking too big - I like having big, ethically significant, world-changing thoughts. That’s not a bad thing. But I keep thinking too big, for too long. I need to pare down. Rules of writing apply here too - edit, edit, edit.

2. I’m not playing to my strengths - there are only so many things I am good at. I should stop trying to reinvent the wheel each time. I need to recognize areas I have already worked in and reinforce these.

3. Self-doubt - Dylan from our studio gave a super-nice talk on creativity that broke through even my initial skepticism (how can you lecture on creativity?) and my greatest takeaway from it - stop doubting yourself! It’s a huge source of me giving up and not seeing an idea through to fruition. Or whatever.

I feel marginally better now. But I need to get a little sleep now. I’m going to continue this post very shortly to outline some initial ideas. A consultation is also long overdue now.

If you’re reading this and don’t see a follow-up post soon, do leave me a stinker as a comment. It will inspire me to work. I’m like that, you know.

Currently watching: Super-cheesy-corny Korean series. It’s embarrassing, I won’t tell you which one.

[asha-nm]

Another beginning

And so on this inauspicious Tuesday night, I will begin blogging about my thoughts, ideas and project development for the Winter Semester of 2016/17.

Or at the very least I will begin giving it serious thought :P

Listening to: Landeswelle Thüringen (Lovin’ Each Day - Ronan Keating)

[akta1976]

Semaphore - Teaser / AV Performance at LichtRouten

[akta1976]

Augmented Structures v2.0 / Istanbul Design Biennial / October 13th - December 12th, 2012