The many fields of design

It questions the cities strengths and weaknesses with regard to its cultural developments and how this effects the creative now and in the future.

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So remember the post of last week about ownership in the hybrid city?

Maybe this is a answer. YoMu, look around you.

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VIRTUEEL PLATFORM RESEARCH: OWNERSHIP IN THE HYBRID CITY

This study explores the concept of ownership as a design approach for the contemporary city. Digital media technologies are becoming increasingly influential in daily urban life. How can we implement these technologies in such a way that they make and maintain the city as a liveable and vibrant environment? How can we best design urban areas where citizens feel at home, feel empowered to engage with shared issues and interests, and feel a sense of ‘ownership’ in these issues? In what ways can the e-culture sector contribute to bolstering a sense of ownership in urban society?

http://www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ownership_EN.pdf

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One of the leading ladies of 3D fashion, Iris van herpen. Described as an alchemist approach to fashion, Van Herpen’s designs perpetually embrace new collaborations with artists, architects and researchers

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Design, like almost every industry, has been changed forever by technology, global access and social innovation. It’s time to interpret the evidence around us—there are lessons to be learned, and new types of talent required to thrive.

Article by Cheryl HellerJanuary 3, 2013.

AIGA - Filed Under: Inspiration, innovation

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"Anyone who has more than one thing they're passionate about — and there are a lot of people out there like that — you end up finding ways to connect them," says Freeman. "Urban planning is thinking about the built environment and thinking about social conditions and working with people. The more ways you can try to approach those problems the better, and I think art is a good outlet for working on that."

Quote by urban planner Neil Freeman.

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What kind of cross-pollination do you think there is between fashion and architecture, if there is any?

Fashion and architecture are both based on basic life necessities – clothing and shelter. However, they are also forms of self-expression – for both the creators and consumers. Both fashion and architecture affect our emotional being. For example, fashion refers to the actual articles one wears, but style is how you put it together and how confident you feel when you are going about your daily life.  Similarly, our moods are affected by our living and work conditions – sunlight, cleanliness and comfort. On a deeper level, fashion and architecture both have less to do with luxury and design, but everything to do with feeling comfortable in your own skin and in your habitat.

http://www.architizer.com

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Of late, I've been thinking a lot about visual storytelling and the various ways that the Internet and digital devices like the iPad require us to process information and content. Over the past decade, there has been an astounding rise in the value of visual litteracy-- the ability to process information and content that is delivered via images rather than text. When you think about it, all of the most popular forms of new Internet content - whether infographics, casual games or video clips - place a premium on visual storytelling. The new Park Avenue Armory exhibit Leonardo's Last Supper, a vision by Peter Greenaway, attempts to encourage a new dialogue between painting and cinema.

By: Dominic Basulto

read more: http://www.futurelab.net/blogs/marketing-strategy-innovation/2010/12/future_visual_storytelling_las.html

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Blue Journey, a choreography by David Middendorp. A beautiful example of collaboration and a fusion between disciplines.

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About rAndom International

rAndom International was founded by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch in 2002. The studio was set up to extend the perspective of contemporary artistic practice. Working from the fringes of art, design, science and architecture, rAndom develop projects and installations that re-interpret the 'cold' nature of digital-based work and emphasise the interaction between the animate (audience) and the inanimate (object), bringing the two into a powerful relationship of performance. The studio's work has won many awards in the fields art, architecture and design. 

random-international.com

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Hybrid Space Lab

Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Prof. Frans Vogelaar founded Hybrid Space Lab, a R&D and design practice focusing on the  hybrid fields that are emerging through the combination and fusion of environments, objects and services in the information-communication age. The scope of our development and design projects ranges from those on urban games and planning to buildings, architectural interiors and industrial design applications and wearables.

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Intimacy 2.0 features Studio Roosegaardeʼs new, high-tech wearable dresses composed of leather and smart e-foils which are daringly perfect to wear on the red carpet. The e-foils become transparent and opaque in response to the heartbeat of the model wearing the e-dress.

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‘Seventh sense’ will celebrate its European premiere at TodaysArt. This exclusive performance is done by the Taiwanese Anarchy Dance Theatre, led by choreographer Chieh-hua Hsieh and interactive designers UltraCombos. Modern dance and interactive digital environments are beautifully merged in this stunning choreography.

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De toekomst van het (nieuwe) werken

Hoe wordt er gewerkt over 10, 20 of misschien wel 50 jaar?

"Het begon met Jos Poiesz (Regio West-Brabant) en Hans-Robert Schwalbach (Gemeente Eindhoven), beiden met name werkzaam op het gebied van Personeel & Organisatie en in het laatste deel van hun loopbaan. Liever dan voor bewezen diensten het spreekwoordelijke horloge in ontvangst te nemen wilden ze hun werkgevers zelf iets nalaten. In overleg met de ontwerpers Marcel Sloots (Volle-Kracht) en Leonne Cuppen (Yksi Ontwerp) werd een tiental Eindhovense ontwerpers gevraagd om samen aan de slag te gaan met het onderwerp ‘Het Nieuwe Werken’, waar ook menig overheidsorganisatie mee worstelt.

Het doel is om gezamenlijk tot nieuwe ideeën te komen. Daarbij staat ons niet persé een realistisch beeld voor ogen. De oplossingen kunnen surrealistisch, futuristisch, eenvoudig of juist een omwenteling in het werken brengen. Alles kan en alles mag. Daarbij staat de discussie en de samenwerking tussen de deelnemers voorop."

www.detoekomstvanhetnieuwewerken.nl

www.ddw.nl

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Projects for tomorrow's spaces

Digital utopia - if everything became softer. by Astrid Dobmeier, july 12 2012

An interesting scenario on the development of digital sensuality and architecture.

"What would our lives feel like if the walls of the buildings in which we live and work could continually change—if dwellings reacted to what we do? How would we move around in these circumstances? How would we walk, drive, run and fly? Perhaps our surroundings would then be more in a state of flux than they are today."

"A new form of sensory experience of the world around is opened up for passengers. It is precisely architects and designers who have the power to develop a new digital sensuality which goes far beyond simulation of the analog world.”

http://mooove.com/if-everything-became-softer

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Beyond design thinking

Why hybrid design is the next new thing. By Gadi Amnit, june 4, 2010

Hybrid design is already happening all over. Within industrial design, the seamless integration of software and hardware into everyday objects, whether it be the iPod and iTunes, or the old-fashioned "on-screen-display" on your cable box, has been a part of any physical design for over a decade.

Hybrid design is the de-facto merger of industrial, interactive, and brand design. It is, however, more than that, since it places these trusted design methodologies within an actionable, focused and deliverable framework.

In short, "hybrid design" is to design what "design thinking" was to "innovation": the next level of design methodology based on a wider perspective, multi-talented approach that is still rooted in making things work.

To read the full article: http://www.fastcompany.com/1656288/beyond-design-thinking-why-hybrid-design-next-new-thing

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Design is a team sport

A short passage from the article - Design is a team sport

Thimothy Moore, The skeptical futuryst - Sept13, 2012.

The future is coming - but there are several of them. As a leader in foresight at Arup Australasia, Stuart Candy's task is to enable people to make considered choices about these potential futures, in the face of the complexity of the environment around them and its rapidly changing context. While he cannot predict what will happen, Candy works out various scenarios for the future by bringing people - and all their anxieties and aspirations - together. Timothy Moore As a part of Arup's Foresight and Innovation team, you identify and monitor the trends and issues likely to have a significant impact upon the built environment and society at large. You literally look into the future. How do you do this? Stuart Candy The heart of this work is about serving as a catalyst to enable, encourage and exemplify different ways of looking at things. It is about inviting and at times seducing people into a certain way of thinking, rather than mandating it. As the pioneering corporate futurist Pierre Wack put it, foresight is "the gentle art of reperceiving" - looking at the present in terms of the alternative potentials that it contains, to inform wiser action today. We set a process in motion whereby people can discover for themselves the choices they face, and the future implications of various paths that might be taken. It's a different philosophy from that of the guru who distributes pearls of wisdom. It's intrinsically collaborative.

http://futuryst.blogspot.nl/2012/09/design-is-team-sport.html

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Short interview with Lidewijk Edelkoort about the future of the City.