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The OpenPositioningSystem project by Philipp Ronnenberg (Design…
The OpenPositioningSystem project by Philipp Ronnenberg (Design Interaction, RCA): “This navigation system is open. Which means it is not run by companies nor control. The goal is to gather interested...
View ArticleNews from the Executive Suite, Los Angeles Bureau
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....
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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...
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Thoughts about brain-machine interaction
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...
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“Miss Cyborg” taken from Sahel digital A picture…
“Miss Cyborg” taken from Sahel digital A picture that Christopher Kickley used in his Lift13 presentation last week. New African Aesthetic probably.
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Telesound “sounds” intriguing:TeleSound is a cute…
Telesound “sounds” intriguing: TeleSound is a cute speaker containing over 1,000 sounds that you and your friends can trigger from a smartphone or tablet over the internet.
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The geometry of possibility
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...
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The world is not enough
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...
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10 years!
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....
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Curious Rituals
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...
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Endurance
Last weekend I spent 36 hours awake in the desert just north of Tucson, Arizona. I was there to document an endurance race: a 24 hour, off-road bicycle endurance race to be precise. As with most of...
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Art/tech scene
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...
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‘Curious Rituals’ in Milan for the Design Week 2013
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...
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Contribution to Ethnography Matters
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...
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A short essay on 3D Printing
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...
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Store now open!
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...
View ArticleMissed Opportunity – A Crank on a Camera
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...
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In La Leyenda del Mapa Mudo
After answering the questions of architects in Mosaic, I have recently responded to an interview for the monthly periodical of the Spanish geographer association. The result of the discussion is now...
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Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘Uncreative Writing”
Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘Uncreative Writing” was certainly the best book I’ve read so far in 2013. It’s basically about techniques, which are traditionally thought to be unrelated with literature (word...
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Digital Creativity on design fictions
For people interested in design fictions, the latest issue of Digital Creativity is a special issue about design fiction. It features papers by people like James Auger or Andrew Morrison, Ragnhild...
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