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A “Home Cloud Kit” (evolution)

By Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Architecture, Design, Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0145, ABCD, Cabinets, Cloud, Code, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, ECAL, Experience, fabric | ch, Interface, Open source, Things, Tools Permalink 0

Note: the purpose of a “Home Cloud Kit” (working title) has been described in a previous post. It will be composed by four artifacts which will become the main outcomes of the design research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), along with one book about the ethnographic field study and another one about the design research process.

Below are four links leading to four posts describing and analyzing the current state of evolution for each part of this kit. We expect the research and the “kit” to be finished by the end of March 17.

The “kit” will be distributed freely at the end of the project.

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The final phase of our research consists in the prototyping of artifacts which relevance have been identified along the process. Tools, infrastructures and services are therefore addressed and will constitute a “Home Cloud Kit”.

 

This final phase is organized into the four following lines of work:

 

A) A Personal Data Center (evolution, models)

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B) I&IC’s OwnCloud Core Processing Library (evolution)

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C) A Personal Cloud (evolution)

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D) My Data Controllers (evolution, models)

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I&IC’s OwnCloud Core Processing Library (evolution)

By Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Interaction Design, Projects, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0141, B, Clouds, Code, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 0

Note: “I&IC OwnCloud Core Processing Library” (working title) is part of a home cloud kit, which was described in a previous post and that will be composed by four various artifacts, both physical and digital.

The kit will be distributed freely at the end of the project.

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One processing project with one cloud, while the server (OwnCloud) can still be accessed by a regular interface (OwnCloud client). The upper part (white) is the “network/server side” of the project (OwnCloud), hosted on a Linux server, while the bottom (grey dots) is user or “client side”. It can consists in connected objects or environments, interfaces, visualizations of different sorts.

 

The I&IC’s Owncloud Core Processing Library is now composed of a “client side” component and “server side” component (IICloud’s Addon).

The “client side” part of the library (“user side” vs. “network/server side” in the illustrations above and below) can be used from Processing, in order to get access to OwnCloud server(s) and manipulate files. The benefit of the core library resides in the fact that it mashups all together a set of heterogeneous functionalities in one single library (it has been therefore renamed I&IC OwnCloud Core Processing Library as it is more closely related to our research).

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I&IC within Poetics and Politics of Data, exhibition at H3K. Pictures

By Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Publications, X-Posts Tags: 0107, ABCD, Architects, Art, Designers (interaction), ECAL, EPFL_ECAL_Lab, Ethnographers, Exhibitions, fabric | ch, HEAD, Media, Mediated, Scenography, Students Permalink 0
Works by Rafael Lozanno-Hemmer (left) and Jennifer Lyn Morone (near right). Photo: Marco Frauchiger Works by Ellie Harrison (left) and Marc Lee (right). Photo: Marco Frauchiger Works by Paolo Cirio (far left) and Jennifer Lyn Morone (right). Photo: David Colombini Design research I&IC by ECAL, HEAD, EPFL+ECAL Lab and scenography by fabric | ch. On the right, "Hello World!" by Christopher Baker. Photo: David Colombini Scenography "cabinet" by fabric | ch and projection by Christopher Baker on the right. Photo: Marco Frauchiger Hello world! by Christopher Baker. Photo: Marco Frauchiger Project by Rybn. Photo: Marco Frauchiger Work by Ellie Harrison. Photo: Marco Frauchiger Works by Erica Scourti (left) and Paolo Cirio (right). Photo: Marco Frauchiger Scenographic "exhibition wall-cabinet" by fabric | ch with dedicated entrance. Photo: David Colombini "Exhibition wall-cabinet" by fabric | ch displaying I&IC design research temporary results. Photo: David Colombini "Exhibition wall-cabinet" and archive by fabric | ch, research results and documentation by I&IC design research. Photo: Marco Frauchiger I&IC design research results, documentation. Photo: Marco Frauchiger I&IC design research results, in particular on the picture works by Martin Hertig and Bastien Girshig; Pierre-Xavier Puissant, Anne-Sophie Bazard and Jonas Lacôte; Nicolas Nahornyj. Photo: Marco Frauchiger The inside of the "wall exhibition-cabinet" and pathway by fabric | ch. Photo: Marco Frauchiger I&IC design research result: "Wifi Oracle" by Matin Herting and Bastien Girshig. Photo: David Colombini "Random Raspi for Datadroppers" by fabric | ch. Photo: David Colombini I&IC design research results inside the "cabinet", video documentation by Lucien Langton. Photo: David Colombini I&IC design research results inside the "cabinet", video documentation. Photo: David Colombini A few 3d printed models from the ALICE workshop. Photo: David Colombini Outside view from the "exhibition wall-cabinet" with a view on Deterritorialized Daylight that drives its inner lighting. Photo: David Colombini

Note: a few pictures from the exhibition “Poetics and Politics of Data” that is currently taking place at the Haus der elektronische Künste in Basel.

With works by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Moniker, Aram Bartholl, Ludwig Zeller, Jennifer Lyn Morone, etc., the exhibition gives a sharp view on the production of artists (some of which were presented on this blog) around the contemporary theme of “data”.

 

We had the pleasure to present the temporary results of our design research as the main part of a scenography created by fabric | ch and accompanied by texts from Nicolas Nova and myself.

Note also that Nicolas Nova will be a speaker during the conference Data Traces: Big Data in the Context of Culture & Society that will take place at the H3K between the 3rd and 4th of July and when a publication will be released: Poetics & Politics of Data, Sabine Himmelsbach & Claudia Mareis, ed. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2015.

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(The reasons why an I&IC’s) OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Projects, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0096, B, Clouds, Code, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 0

Beside the reflection produced by the overall Inhabiting & Interfacing the Cloud(s) project and the related necessity to provide “access to tools” to a larger community (largely described in the founding document of the project and in a former post about the setting up of this library), new paradigms may arise in the global organization of servers farms. These new paradigms may in return generate new ways to organize files on cloud servers (by a different control of the redundancy principle for example, or a different use of file’s duplication, etc.), allowing for new projects.

In order to answer the stakes of the I&IC design research and to prepare such output/proposals, we have developed the OwnCloud Core Processing Library that will allow to setup a software layer on top of the hardware layer.

 

To download and learn how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library, we’ve prepared a post in the Cook Books section of this site.

 

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Cookbook > How to set up Processing to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0095, B, Code, Data, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Makers, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 1

We will describe how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library within the Processing framework, starting from a blank sketch. Library’s functions will be refined and new ones may be developped, some additional libraries will be added as well in order to propose high level functions deeper linked to the IICloud(s) project.

 

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Reblog > Deterritorialized Living, residency, storyboard for workshop and follow-up #1 (open call)

By Thursday, October 2, 2014 Architecture, Interaction Design, Projects Tags: 0035, Architecture, Designers, fabric | ch, Furnitures, Infrastructure, Interferences, Sketches Permalink 0

 

Note: I had the opportunity to lead a workshop last year for fabric | ch at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, for the student of the Tsinghua Art & Sciences Media Laboratory. The workshop took place during a residency at the university and we developed the idea of revisiting the computer cabinet, possibly inhabiting it and developing a symbiotic environment between human and computers. The workshop was short and ideas didn’t have the occasion to unfold very far unfortunately. It even became later an open call during the last Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Yet this workshop undoubtedly constituted the preliminary work before the redaction of this research project and it could continue to be a line of thinking during this project.

Below are the storyboard little sketches I made at that time to introduce this workshop.

 

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I came back from Beijing more than a month ago now and before Christian Babski will return next week to China for fabric | ch during another month to finish our residency at the Tsinghua University (until mid July), I’m taking a bit of time to write a follow-up about the short workshop/sketch session I headed there with the students of Prof. Zhang Ga, at the Tsinghua Art & Sciences Media Laboratory.

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