Archive for March, 2008
Standing between revolutions and everyday life…
March 30, 2008 9:03 am 
“Design and the Elastic Mind” is a major exhibition currently presented by MoMA till May 12 2008. The title of the exhibition emerges from the assertion that while “adaptability” is hard-wired into human intelligence, coping with the recent and dramatic changes in our experience of “time, space, matter and identity” requires something stronger – “elasticity”. In 2006, MoMA teamed up with the science magazine “Seed” and held a number of salons where designers, architects and scientists were invited to share ideas and work. According to Paola Antonelli, curator and co-writer of the companion book “Design and the Elastic Mind”, the exhibition “reflects on how the figure of the designer is changing from form giver to fundamental interpreter of an extraordinarily dynamic reality.”
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wearable social networks
March 3, 2008 10:27 am
Now you can wear your social network (or your heart) on your sleeve – literally. This is what you do:
1. Buy a set of threads from the Get Wickd clothing label
2. Download the special Get Wickd software onto your mobile
3. Go outside and start looking for other people wearing Get Wickd bar-coded clothes
4. Take a snap with your mobile
5. Your phone will connect you with the personal page of that person – from MySpace to YouTube
Apparently not new – but made “newer” with the advent of a camera on your phone. A similar idea, the UrbanSeeder project, was developed a couple of years ago by Maya Lotan for her thesis project at the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea. Back in the late 90’s, apparently, there was an even earlier version of social-widget-fashion in the form of skim.com, which Salon Magazine described at the time as “stalker chic” and asked “Is skim.com dressing up the antisocial pervert or outfitting the terminally hip?”. Good question.
via: twenty1f and nextnature
