Mon – 04/ 03 2013
Two quotes from Design the New Business
There is lot of talking about values in those new business models for innovation. Makes me think whether those synthesize business and design, so that design is subordinated to business logic. Is there really space for something new to emerge from?
“People are realizing the value of access to experiences and services, rather than owning something outright, that they have in their hands. And from that moment it usually depreciates in value.”
“So I think the key lesson of what is learned in working Proto Partners is that as a business we need to spend more time focusing on desirability, what do our customers want, what are their expectations. I think by truly designing desirability, it does create experience innovation..”
Thu – 14/ 02 2013
On Seduction: A technology of desire
Can computers, software, and new technologies in general be companions in social transformation and help us in bringing about new forms of collectivity? Not in terms of organizing and channeling action, but by incorporating object-orientation and emerging forms of subjectivity. I call this thinking software design instead of designing with software.
Tue – 15/ 01 2013
Transmediale 2013 looks into desire
I am going to run a workshop at the 2013s Transmediale, together with Alan Shapiro. The title is Software of the Future, or the model precedes the real. I am going to talk about my current research into technology and desire. One aspect of it will be about seduction as a technology of desire, which may be useful to push reversibility in new technologies.
http://www.transmediale.de/content/software-future-or-model-precedes-real
Tue – 15/ 01 2013
Richard Dawkins on our queer universe
The title of the lecture is inspired by a quote of biologist J.B.S. Haldane: “Queerer than we can suppose.”
Sat – 23/ 06 2012
Full revolution (in social media) ahead!
“Rate everything!” This video for the Jotly app, an app which rates everything, demonstrates to us how this positivist and excessive frivolity of collecting user data can be driven on ad absurdum (or, in other words, social media cannot only create a lot of buzz, but also a lot of noise.)
We hover between Web 2.0, the participatory web with features such as rating systems, comments and like functionalities, and web 3.0, the semantically enriched web, which holds new promises for us. The methods of web 2.0 to collect user-data will be slowly outgrown by more sophisticated technologies for sure. Data as such doesn’t say much about the user who participates in a range of activities across a range of networks on- and offline. This is stated also as a conclusion by Mark Granovetters in his network study called The Strength of Weak Ties:
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Mon – 18/ 06 2012
A Dancing Dress
Fashionable idea for a robotic extension of the female body. Less magical than the Dancing Shoes, which had a live on their own. But I acknowledge the stimulating features (the model, too, apparently), so in its proper application the tutu could also work well as a … massage belt, for example.
Mon – 11/ 06 2012
The new is terrifying. Not because it is this way and not another way, but because it is new.
- Vilem Flusser
Mon – 11/ 06 2012
new post up on alan’s blog
Alan posted the 4th part of a series on Time, Memory and Experience, which I wrote with regard to human-computer interaction. The series springs from a discussion in my thesis on digital image archives.
You can read it here:
http://www.alan-shapiro.com/time-memory-experience-part-4-of-4-by-anja-wiesinger/
