© 2013 Julian. All rights reserved.
Curious Rituals is a project about gestures, postures and rituals people adopt when using digital technologies. It’s both a book documenting gestures we observed, and a design fiction film that speculates about their evolution Location: Los Angeles, USA Years: Summer … Continue reading
© 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.
As the name of our Laboratory implies, we’re very interested in the hands-on, pragmatic ways in which one can imagine and then create things from and for the near future. In that sense, we design products and the like. Stuff. … Continue reading
© 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.
We did a Design Fiction workshop as a kind of follow on to the Convenience newspaper. Our idea was to take the observation that the trajectory of all great innovations is to asymptotically trend towards the counter of your corner … Continue reading
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Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction. A couple of years ago, in a small discussion group while I was teaching at USC, Paul Dourish presented an early draft of a paper he and Genevieve Bell … Continue reading
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An idiomatic miss here with this little, darling, silly little camera. First read says to me that crank+camera equals either, like..advance-the-image or, like..crank-the-moving-film through. The Sun & Cloud is a unique and innovative lo-fi camera designed to take simple and … Continue reading
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We’re pleased to announce that the hellofosta store is now open. From time to time we will be releasing new products, prints and other items so do keep checking back. We’re kicking things off with a provocative 3D printed badge,
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I have recently contributed to the April edition of Ethnography Matters on Ethnomining and the combination of qualitative & quantitative data. My story describes the overall process of our work with sensor data at the Louvre Museum in Paris. I particularly focus on the importance of mixed-methods when its comes to give full answers about [...] Continue reading
© 2013 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
Quick update: “Curious Rituals: gestural interactions in the digital everyday”, the book and our short film, was shown few weeks ago in the Logotel’s (In)visible Design – 100 Stories from the Future and Beyond, an exhibition for Milano Design Week 2013. Thanks again Stefano Mattei and Francesca Rizzo! Some general pictures of the exhibit from [...] Continue reading
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In order to produce anything, you need three elements: an idea, the means to make the idea, and the money to pay all concerned. For these reasons it comes as no surprise that the entrepreneurial explosion of the early 2000′s
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An interesting quote seen in this NYT article I saw today: ““I’ve been a bit disappointed by the disconnect between New York City’s art world and technology space,” he wrote in an e-mail later. “It’s extremely rare to see start-up people at gallery openings, for instance.” There are all sorts of plausible explanations: the tech [...] Continue reading
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I just realized this the tenth year of Pasta and Vinegar! What started as a PhD student notepad is still around. There’s less blogging than it used to be but I still intend to keep this blog running. Weak signals and links are generally posted on beta knowledge, but P&V will still feature longer posts, [...] Continue reading
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Some of the opinions in this post might not be on trend, I’m happy with this. It is also worth mentioning that I reference ‘design’ as an element of production at scale, as opposed to the practice of an individual
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© 2013 Nicolas. All rights reserved.
Brain-computer interactions is a pet topic I investigate on the side for quite some time; actually since I was an undegrad in Cognitive Sciences back fifteen years ago. In the last ten years, we saw an interesting evolution in terms of hardware possibilities with the advent of headcaps… this led to a novel situation where [...] Continue reading
© 2013 Julian. All rights reserved.
Nick and I came back again to the Emerge 2013 event at Arizona State University to workshop an issue of “Green Pages”, the Laboratory’s ‘Quarterly Design & Technology Fiction Almanac.’ For those of you who haven’t subscribed, or don’t know … Continue reading
© 2013 Julian. All rights reserved.
Amongst the projects we publicly declare here on the Laboratory blog, there are probably x2 others that we don’t. We plan to change that ratio henceforth. These are our “non-battery” powered projects. By that I mean that they are not … Continue reading
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Two major inputs for this post are ‘What Technology Wants‘ by Kevin Kelly and Matt Ward’s blog piece on the fate of things to come. I suggest you read both, as this post is essentially an illustration of my thoughts after reading.
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