#self-building

[digyourselfoutofdashit]

autoconstruction

self-building,

photographie malmenée,

Francis Brunel

[randhawa02]

[shia-sesh]

Upcoming Session

[hokkaidoecovillage]

Building up of the façade (wooden panels), next comes the terrasse, and the interiors including the cladded stove... This could be folowed on the Junka Sakamoto’s FB page.

[hokkaidoecovillage]

Insulation of the small house : 75 mm on the exterior walls ans 100 mm on the roof and the floor. Painting and protection of the interior walls with the ecological paint (oil-based).

[arisemyrobots-blog]

Lego-like bricks could build bendy robots, via newscientist

[tiptaptopika]

week 116 & 117

The last two weeks were mostly focused around user testing for NMM and short design sprints in order to implement the results of the testing rounds. 

We are now concentrating on getting the details of the interactive elements right by iterating on all dynamic visual feedback and cues that are key to the experience.

I recently started collaborating with Digital Thinking Network in order to help them develop their flagship product News Console further and to develop a coherent branding and visual language for their communication.

For the annual workshop weeks at my son's school, themed as a recycle festival, I volunteered to supervise building big structures with vegetable and fruit crates and all kinds of other stuff in the schoolyard. All I needed to contribute was a lot of tape, ty-raps and some guidance in establishing patterns for building and connecting elements. During three afternoons the kids figured out how to build a rather tall tower, which was stable enough to withstand a hoard of kids during school breaks for a week and even a couple of nights of rain. For me working with kids is always an incredible rewarding experience because it is refreshing to see how fast they can reframe their imagination and alter their perspectives in order to solve a creative task with minimal instructions.