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I&IC design research wrap-up of sketches, towards artifacts

By Monday, June 20, 2016 Architecture, Design, Interaction Design, Projects, X-Posts Tags: 0134, ABCD, Art direction, Cabinets, Clouds, Data, Datacenter, Devices, Domestic, ECAL, Infrastructure, Object, Open source, Personal, Tools, Wrap-up Permalink 0

Following Nicolas Nova’s wrap-up regarding the ethnographic research about Cloud Computing which came to an end last April (publication to come) in the frame of Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) (I&IC) and learning from it, it is also time for me to write a midterm status report about the design aspects of this ongoing work. It is the occasion to resume what we’ve been through along the process and highlight the most important elements.

 

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“No-Stop City” (A. Branzi, 1969) used as an illustration in the founding document of the I&IC design research.
Image retrieved from the post “I&IC Preliminary Intentions” (05.09.2014).

 

We are therefore trying to put in evidence in this article what we’ve learned so far during the process and where this might lead us as design strategies during the last year of this design study. This while knowing that our plans are to produce design artifacts and functional prototypes as results of this research process — among other ones (books, tools, etc.)

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I&IC Workshop #5 with random International at ECAL: work in progress

By Saturday, November 21, 2015 Interaction Design, Schools, Workshops Tags: 0121, Clouds, Data, Designers (interaction), Devices, History, Makers, Monitoring, Presence, Profiling, Students, Teaching, Traces Permalink 0

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Our workshop with Dev Joshi from rAndom International is going on well during the week, with different ideas cast into the direction of digital shadows, traces and footprints.

The students are encouraged to produce objects, although it has been suggested that they take advantage of space as well (installations), as the workshop takes place in a large studio (cinema studio at ECAL).

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Heating homes with Clouds – links

By Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Resources, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0102, A, Computing, Devices, Energy, Housing, Links Permalink 1

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Using excess heat generated by data centers to warm homes isn’t a new idea. Earlier in our research we stumbled upon Qarnot, a french company proposing to decentralize the data center into meshed radiators to distribute computing resources across people’s homes (we’re guessing they took their name from Carnot’s Limit ;). They announced a partnership with the city of Paris to heat 350 low-income housings in 2013.

However, they are not the only rats in the race…

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