Tom Armitage: Den materielle verden (Webdagene 2013)

“the main material I work in is software”

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Software is a material.

Data is a material.

Services are materials.

Electronics, radio,

hardware are materials.

Immaterials

Place is a material.

Time is a material

vesper.5 - Michael Brough

ghostcar

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The materiality of design being made obvious

The Cloud Is A Lie

Materials are constraints

Alan Kay

“The ability to ‘read’ a medium

means you can access materials and

tools created by others. The ability to

‘write’ in a medium means you can

generate materials and tools for

others. You must have both to be

literate.”

MaterialExploration

William Hurt, “The Challenger”

“...he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he

carried it around for months, pretending it was a

computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday?

Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he

were checking his schedule.”

“...If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to

look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out

different design faces with various button

configurations, using paper printouts glued to the

block."

Thomas Heatherwick

“You don’t want to fall in love with an idea.”

ustwo - “Live Wireframing”

Immaterials -Timo Arnall, Jack Schulze

ShowEverything

Schooloscope

One NewGraph A Day

“Technical wife” “Design husband”

drift-compatible

“Technical wife” “Design husband”

“take ideas seriously by playing with

them”

Seymour Papert

Seamful Design

Matthew Chalmers

“Seams in interactive system designs and

infrastructures show through in users’

interaction, but we can design for such

seams. We can help users understand and

adapt our systems and their activity, with

design that weave transparent use and

more analytical use together into... ‘the

fabric of everyday life’”.

Toys... “radiate playfulness and opportunity”

Matt Jones

Microworlds

Abstract toys

makingis

playing

problem

Problem-solving is convergent

idea

Toymaking is divergent

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Purpose often emerges

through play

Richard Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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Tom Armitage: Den materielle verden (Webdagene 2013)

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