Methods Lab ‘Ageing in Kensington’
Two Social Spaces researchers and four Media, Arts and Design Faculty students are in London this week to participate in the Royal College of Art Methods Lab ‘Ageing in Kensington’. Tonight we will present our mapping and our Touch of Memory project. A report will follow soon!
FOOD RELATED workshop in Tromsø
During her workingperiod in Kilpisjärvi, Rosanne van Klaveren gave a workshop at the Small Projects gallery in Tromsø about arctic food in general and about her FOOD RELATED project in particular. After a short presentation and introduction to the online platform at www.foodrelated.org, a very usefull mapping was made with the MAP-it tool developed by Social Spaces collegues. The participants also worked with cultural probes to focus more on the experience, meaning, future and difficulties of food within the circumpolar north.
CFP: Whose Participation? Spaces of Interaction
Call for papers:
Whose Participation? Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architecture
December 16/17, 2011
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Organized by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture
(gta), ETH Zurich
Resource-lab
A new project called Resource-lab started within the research group Art|Object & Design in collaboration with Kringwinkel Turnhout. The project involves the development of new products using materials and products gathered by the Kringwinkel Turnhout. Resource strives for sustainable use of products by stimulating awareness concerning waste and involving users in the design process. They support a social and open design philosophy by sharing the development processes through social media and involving people through workshops. Resource is currently still in its first phase of developing prototypes. Gradually it will develop towards a sharing and collaborating platform for developing new ideas and products.
Take a look at their prototypes on their blog. You can also follow them on Twitter or facebook.
Social Design in Public Space, some experiments
In the public space module Social Design in Public Space the students of C-md (new media design) created some quite interesting concepts. Some were interesting technical experiments, while others were examples of a good contextual research into needs of semi-public environments.
How to play Pong in public environments on multiple screens:
POOONG from chrisalexmuller on Vimeo.
How to fly a helicopter around with only audio input.
How to share energy via a Internet of Things Platform in a Peer-to_peer way:
http://internetofthingsenergiedelen.blog.com/
How to react against a Belgian proposal to make child care environments pay for playing music? These students created a remix tool for children’s songs:
http://achildsworldcopylefted.wikispaces.com/