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Created by David Colombini, The Weather Followers is a commentary on ‘smart’ applications and predictive, comfortable digital routines. Instead of relying on ‘accurate’ data, intangible algorithms and hidden lines of code-driven lifestyles, this device brings serendipity to your digital life, using constantly evolving weather data recorded by four weather instruments.
12/10/2017‘Technological Nature’ is a recent short film by media artist and designer Daria Jelonek exploring the emulation of natural phenomena with technology. Auroras, rainbows, and glaring sunlight, are all recreated with everyday materials in an eerily empty domestic environment.
03/07/2017Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
31/01/2017A complete redesign of his 2014 Jean Tinguely-inspired project, David Colombini’s Attachment is a “poetic machine” that renders physical manifestations of user-generated digital messages (text, images, or videos) and sends them off via biodegradable balloons.
04/01/2017Created by Riccardo Lardi, The Reality Gap is a research project that investigates how robot movements evoke empathy towards humans and speculates where will the next generation of robotic systems come from and where will they go.
10/08/2016The Hack n’ Roll is a collaboration between KORG, OK GO and the students and tutors from the Platform 21 unit in the Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art in London to design musical instruments that surprise, amuse and excite.
15/09/2015The OpenSurgery project investigates whether building DIY surgical robots, outside the scope of medical regulations, could plausibly provide an accessible alternative to costly professional healthcare services worldwide.
29/06/2015Created by Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini, The Network Ensemble is a tool to sonically uncover and amplify the invisible territory of the networks that sit between our offline and online experiences.
23/06/2015Created by Francesco Tacchini, SPOOK-I is a hypothetical but operative US National Security Agency inspired machine. It mimics two surveillance techniques available to the NSA Tailored Access Operations unit, in order to expose the technology employed by state surveillance for the ‘weaponization of everyday’.
22/12/2014Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg’s Smile TV turns the medium’s engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to “smile to watch”.
09/07/2014‘Beyond Blood’ is a project that imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates.
25/06/2014Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
03/03/2014Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
02/01/2014RCA DI project that looks at possible implication if the act of genetically combining human with animal DNA was not illegal, nor did it violate moral or ethical codes of conduct.
08/07/2013Continuing our documentation of Resonate 2013, it’s a pleasure to present the talk of Anthony Dunne, professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London
29/04/2013Speculative Sea Level Explorer is an application made using Processing that explores the possible effects flooding should the sea levels change as a result of global warming.
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22/08/2010Created by David Colombini, The Weather Followers is a commentary on ‘smart’ applications and predictive, comfortable digital routines. Instead of relying on ‘accurate’ data, intangible algorithms and hidden lines of code-driven lifestyles, this device brings serendipity to your digital life, using constantly evolving weather data recorded by four weather instruments.
Tags: arduino / data / David Colombini / fragment / ied / Information Experience Design / project / raspberrypi / rca / sensor / serendipity / Sound / spotify / student / weather
‘Technological Nature’ is a recent short film by media artist and designer Daria Jelonek exploring the emulation of natural phenomena with technology. Auroras, rainbows, and glaring sunlight, are all recreated with everyday materials in an eerily empty domestic environment.
Tags: after effects / CGI / cinema4d / Daria Jelonek / film / houdini / light / nature / rca
Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Tags: anthony dunne / bartlett / choreography / critical making / DfPI / education / Felix Faire / fiona raby / interactive architecture lab / interview / Lin Tang / London / mit media lab / Nicholas Negroponte / pedgagoy / Ranulph Glanville / rca / robotics / Ruairi Glynn / speculative design / Stephen Gage
A complete redesign of his 2014 Jean Tinguely-inspired project, David Colombini’s Attachment is a “poetic machine” that renders physical manifestations of user-generated digital messages (text, images, or videos) and sends them off via biodegradable balloons.
Tags: arduino / creative technology / creativeappsnet / critique / David Colombini / digital communication / ecal / featured / process / project / rca / vvvv / WebApp
Created by Riccardo Lardi, The Reality Gap is a research project that investigates how robot movements evoke empathy towards humans and speculates where will the next generation of robotic systems come from and where will they go.
Tags: arduino / behaviour / design interactions / featured / Raspberry Pi / rca / Riccardo Lardi / robotics / system thinking / systems
The Hack n’ Roll is a collaboration between KORG, OK GO and the students and tutors from the Platform 21 unit in the Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art in London to design musical instruments that surprise, amuse and excite.
Tags: 2014 / design product / Events / korg / music / performance / Platform 21 / rca / Sound / tools / Yuri Suzuki
The OpenSurgery project investigates whether building DIY surgical robots, outside the scope of medical regulations, could plausibly provide an accessible alternative to costly professional healthcare services worldwide.
Tags: arduino / design fiction / diy / Frank Kolkman / medical / process / rca / rca di / speculative / student / surgery
Created by Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini, The Network Ensemble is a tool to sonically uncover and amplify the invisible territory of the networks that sit between our offline and online experiences.
Tags: arduino / data / Francesco Tacchini / Information Experience Design / javascript / network / nodejs / Oliver Smith / rca / rca IED / script / sonification / terminal
Created by Francesco Tacchini, SPOOK-I is a hypothetical but operative US National Security Agency inspired machine. It mimics two surveillance techniques available to the NSA Tailored Access Operations unit, in order to expose the technology employed by state surveillance for the ‘weaponization of everyday’.
Tags: arduino / device / Francesco Tacchini / hypothetical / Information Experience Design / machine / minim / nsa / Processing / rca / surveillance
Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg’s Smile TV turns the medium’s engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to “smile to watch”.
Tags: camera / David Hedberg / distortion / face tracking / faceosc / Kyle McDonald / MaxMSP / rca / television / tv / video
‘Beyond Blood’ is a project that imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates.
Tags: data / design interactions / emotion / fiction / future scenarios / internet of things / object / Processing / rca / speculative / Sures Kumar / system / value / visualisation / Vivagraphjs
Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
Tags: css / design interactions / education / fiction / javascript / php / portfolio / Processing / project / rca / rca di / Sures Kumar / WebApp / website
RCA DI project that looks at possible implication if the act of genetically combining human with animal DNA was not illegal, nor did it violate moral or ethical codes of conduct.
Tags: design future / design interaction / dna / genetic / rca / science / speculative
Continuing our documentation of Resonate 2013, it’s a pleasure to present the talk of Anthony Dunne, professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London
Tags: anthony dunne / design fiction / design interactions / Events / fiction / futures / rca / rca di / resonate / resonate 2013 / talk
Speculative Sea Level Explorer is an application made using Processing that explores the possible effects flooding should the sea levels change as a result of global warming.
Tags: alternative worlds / Benedikt Groß / data / Processing / projection / rca / sea level / speculation
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Tags: design interactions / mapping / Mark McKeague / MaxMSP / Processing / rca / simulation / Sound / traffic
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