USELESS at EXD'11

I've posted this once before, but

oh, if I only could, I would be in Lisboa now.
This year the biennale explores USEFUL/USELESS

Another Made Me Think Of...

"My motivation for this project was my interest in the death and decomposition of materials and how the degradation of materials could be used to aid the grieving process."  

– Nadine Jarvis

Nadine Jarvis's Rest in Pieces, Birdfeeder & Carbon Copies, all intended to challenge post mortem traditions. Read article on Mediamatic.net

Although a completely different agenda, I couldn't help but think of the episode in Yes Men Fix the world where Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno introduce the idea of making bio-fuel out of deceased workers.

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Sense Pairs & Your Blind Passenger

In class a couple of weeks ago a project came up as an example of perspective-shifting design.

It was the game Sense Pairs, developed by Gizem Boyacioglu. One of the things she tried to explore was "to help make a change in sighted people's perceptions about blindness; what we think it is and what it actually is"

  

I have not yet had the opportunity to experience the Olafur Eliasson exhibition at Arken Your Blind Passenger, though it seems to be just as an perspective-altering experience as the one of the Sense Pairs. 

"The narrow tunnel was so dense with fog you were unable to see, yet you could navigate your way through without ever bumping into another visitor or the wall, trusting your other senses to guide you. It was intense & fascinating to feel how these other senses were enhanced." (As one visitor told me)

Revolver (2005)

Quoted from Revolver by Guy Ritchie

RADIORADIORADIO

2 of my favourite radio-shows Radiolab & Filosofiska rummet (in swedish) feature 2 diametrically different themes, both equally interesting. 

Women Reshaping the world

Another link to remember:

http://www.ted.com/themes/women_reshaping_the_world.html

Super Interesting Lectures!

on social sustainability. Lectures by:  Ramia mazé, Peter Nicholson & Hamid Arastoopour


http://www.vimeo.com/21176249


http://www.vimeo.com/21737702


http://www.vimeo.com/21761325


http://www.vimeo.com/22361030


http://www.vimeo.com/22532055


http://www.vimeo.com/22748494

EXD'11 Useless

http://www.experimentadesign.pt/2011/en/01-01-00.html

book DESIGN ACT

interactive institute releases book: http://www.design-act.se/

länkar till självet

http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/home.html

http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html

http://greenfutures.washington.edu/

new note to self - aura program

http://vimeo.com/9782489

note to self

http://www.futuretextiles.dk/