Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Sunday, 22 June 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Imogen Heap Performance with Musical Gloves Demo


"It's the sustain! It's never done that before!" Imogen Heap breaks out of a captivating performance of a song written just three weeks ago for a piece of tech she's had to wait two-and-a-half years to get her hands on.

Covering Heap's hands, arms and back are a series of wires. Two LEDs blink on the back of her hands. She adjusts a setting on her computer and composes herself in the centre of the stage, eager to continue the performance. Despite the minor hitch, the Wired 2012 audience are still captivated by the award-winning musician -- if anything, the error only makes her passion for the new technology all the more obvious.

Heap told Wired 2012 that before she got her hands on her "magical gloves", she would make music with an array of instruments and virtual instruments, along with Albeton music software: "Basically, inside this software I can play virtual instruments and loop things, add layers and textures that I spend hours working on in my basement. But I wanted to bring those sounds on stage with me. I strapped keyboards onto me, had microphones attached to my wrists so that I can mic up wine glasses or guitars or whatever I wanted to record. The problem was, how could I do this on the move.

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electronic-skin-equipped-with-memory/

Stick-on Circuits




About a year ago, University of Illinois researcher John Rogers revealed a pretty amazing creation: a circuit that, rather than living on an inflexible board, could stick to and move with someone’s skin just like an ink stamp. But like any early research, it was mostly a proof-of-concept, and it would require relatively expensive, custom-printed electronics to work.
Today, Rogers, in conjunction with Northwestern University's Yonggang Huang, has published details on version 2.0 in Science, revealing that this once-esoteric project has more immediate, mass market appeal.
Read more at Fast Co. Design

3D Printer can build a house in 20 hours!: Research by Loughborough University


Thursday, 3 April 2014

Beautiful Trouble - A toolbox for Revolution


"Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective." more at information at beautifultrouble.org

Friday, 28 March 2014

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

3D Printed Food Is The Future!?


NASA has given a $125,000 grant to Anjan Contractor to design a system astronauts can use to print food out of sugars, carbs, and proteins.

3D Printers, Future of Food

Future foods: What will we be eating in 20 years' time?

Monday, 17 March 2014

Planned Obsolescence

The cell phone as an agent of social change


Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday lifemore sustainable

Big Question: Feast or famine?


The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth's biggest problems, including the big question of how are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?

Saturday, 15 March 2014

meMINI




Every day, we share experiences with family and friends. As we struggle to retell the story to others later, we often regret not having captured it on film somehow. With meMINI, there’s no longer any need for regret… http://kck.st/1lLIaZv

Friday, 14 March 2014

The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers


Americans love hamburgers – we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? It turns out that livestock create about as much greenhouse gas pollution as cars, planes and other forms of transport. They also take a heavy environmental toll on land and water worldwide.

The Economics of Happiness


The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting those policies – and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Samsara Food Sequence


This clip from SAMSARA showing food production and consumption has been getting a lot of attention!

People Eating Burgers For The First Time In Their Lives

Burger King decided to try to find people around the world who have never been exposed to advertising from either Burger King or McDonalds to see which burger they liked better.

Everyday Surveillance

Emotionally Durable Design - Chapman

HCI & Sustainable Food Culture: A Design Framework for Engagement by Eli Blevis Jaz & Hee-jeong Cho


McDonaldization of Society - Ritzer

Sustainable Food Consumption - Vermeir, Verbeke

"Making Do": Uses and Tactics by Michel de Certeau

Designing for a Safer Future by Victor Papanek

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Saturday, 1 March 2014

Enzo Mari talks about Autoprogettazione


This is a small part of the interview that I have mentioned at the course on Thursday. He talks about his DIY book: Autoprogettazione, and how he aimed to 'educate' people.

Presentation: Design Responsibility, Five Myths and Six Directions by Victor Papanek


Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Production, Distribution, Consumption, Exchange (Circulation) by Karl Marx

This is the first presentation of today's session (February 25, 2014)


Feel free to add comment for discussion of topic
Yavuz Paksoy

Saturday, 22 February 2014

Hans Rosling’s fast forward history

"Stunning video by Hans Rosling, the Director of the Gapminder Foundation which shows how much the wealth of the world has increased in the past 200 years.

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

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This is again a test post, here comes the link and below there is a YouTube embed.