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I&IC’s public survey of 355 links related to “Clouds” on Pinboard – last updated 11.2018

By Thursday, October 25, 2018 Resources, Thinking Tags: 0162, Architects, Cloud, Data, Datacenter, Designers, Designers (interaction), Engineering, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Software, Tools, Users Permalink 0

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Along the design research, we are going through many different types of references that we don’t necessarily post or document on the blog. We usually only post about the ones that we consider relevant to the research process, which doesn’t mean the other ones are not interesting. We’ve just decided not to dig deeper into them at some point, or to keep some of them for later.

Yet, this is a consistent amount of survey that we are leaving on the side of the road and that could possibly be useful for similar or later researches. At least a good starting point… That’s why we’ve created this i&ic_designresearch tag on Pinboard.

Interestingly, some new thematics emerged along the way within these links, like for example on the technological branch, the combination of personal cloud based services, peer to peer protocols and blockchains that were not on the radar when we started our research.

Cloud of Cards (ABCD), a home cloud kit

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Cookbooks, Projects, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0158, ABCD, Clouds, Data, Datacenter, ECAL, Infrastructure, Makers, Object, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Photography: Daniela & Tonatiuh

Research and Art direction by Patrick Keller and Nicolas Nova.

Assistants at ECAL: Lucien Langton & Léa Pereyre. Assistants at HEAD: Anaïs Bloch & CHarles Chalas.

Cloud of Cards, a home cloud kit to re-appropriate your data self, is the principal outcome of the joint design and ethnographic research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), accompanied by two books in print-on-demand that document it.

The main results of the project are four artifacts [ A) - B) - C) - D) ], both digital and physical that constitute a set of modular tools (“cards”) that are delivered in the form of an open-source diy kit, freely accessible on www.cloudofcards.org as well as on Github. The purpose of these tools is to give everyone, the community of designers and makers in particular, the possibility to set up their own small size data-center and cloud, manage their data in a decentralized way or develop their own alternative projects upon this personal small scale infrastructure.

 
 

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A) 19″ Living Rack

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Architecture, Design, Projects, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0157, A, Cabinets, Computing, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Housing, Infrastructure, Storage Permalink 0

Project developed by Léa Pereyre

19” Living Rack is an open source variation around the standardized 19” computer server rack (or cabinet). Dedicated to be distributed in domestic environments for personal or for small size community uses, the modular base of the standard rack is getting combined with additional functions, to address this renewed small office/home office context.

In making clear reference to the famous Ch. Eames toy, the modular House of Cards project, the 19” Living Rack comes in one technical “Base” that can then be combined and customized into three different types: “Office”, “Home”, and “Garden”, to set up personal and somehow undersized data centers.

For each configuration, air flows have been taken into consideration and act as design and functional factors: the air in the front part of the rack remains temperate before entering the rack and cooling the servers, while the back and top air flows are getting warmed up and dried due to the computers heating process. “Office” functions comes therefore mainly in the front part of the rack, “Home” on the back where elements can be tempered or dried, while “Garden” comes on the top, equipped with moistened plants to clean, re-humidify, perfume and cool down the air.

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A) 19″ Living Rack, cookbook only: recipes and other elements

By Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Architecture, Cookbooks, Design, Resources, Schools, X-Posts Tags: 0156, Cabinets, Computing, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Housing, Infrastructure, Makers, Storage, Tools Permalink 0

Please find below the necessary recipes, blueprints and information for the 19″ Living Rack project.

Download manual of assembly, and recipes for the 19″ Living Rack technical “Base”, “Office”, “Home” and “Garden” extensions (PDF).

Download “all-in-one” 19” Living Rack full pack (ZIP). It contains all blueprints (DXF) to be separately cut out (at the CNC), manual of assembly and recipes for the “Base”, so as “Office”, “Home”, and “Garden” extensions (PDF).

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Cloud of Cards. Early pictures from the final artifacts, a photo shoot with Daniela & Tonatiuh

By Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Design, Interaction Design, Projects, Publications, Schools Tags: 0148, Cloud, Datacenter, Documentation, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Photography, Software, Tools Permalink 0
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Photography by Daniela & Tonatiuh.

Design by Léa Pereyre, Lucien Langton and Patrick Keller

A Personal Data Center (evolution, models)

By Friday, February 3, 2017 Architecture, Design, Interaction Design, Projects, X-Posts Tags: 0144, A, Cabinets, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, ECAL, Furnitures, Infrastructure, Open source, Personal, Tools Permalink 0

Note: “A Personal Data Center” (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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After a few design iterations through sketches and a bit of 3D modelling, we recently produced a set of first prototypes of what our domestic 19″ server rack could look like and how it could handle domestic functions as well. As a matter of facts, we can consider this work an alternative approach to what was set up and analyzed at the beginning of our research, when we assembled our own “(small size) personal cloud infrastructure“.

Our approach was fueled by several references, the first one being House of Cards, by Ray and Charles Eames :

 

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The modular, simple and intuitive assembly process guided us for its adequacy within a Do-It-Yourself user context.

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“A Personal Cloud”: a home cloud kit for personal data (centers) / “reappropriate your dataself”!

By Thursday, November 24, 2016 Design, Interaction Design, Projects, X-Posts Tags: 0139, A, ABCD, Art direction, B, C, Cabinets, Clouds, D, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, ECAL, Experience, Infrastructure, Interface, Library, Open source, Personal, Tools, Wrap-up Permalink 0

We’re entering the final straight of the research project Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) and we can give at this point a first glimpse of the four design artifacts we are working on at the moment. They will constitute the main outcomes of our joint experimental effort (ECAL, HEAD, EPFL-ECAL Lab) and a kind of “personal cloud kit” (explained below). These creations will be accompanied by two books: one will present the results of the ethnographic research about “the cloud”, the other will present the design research process and its results – both in pod/pdf.

We already pointed out in the recent post “Updated Design Scenario” where we were heading. Since then, the different projects were better identified and started to get shaped. Some got eliminated. Prototyping and further technical tests are running in parallel at the moment.

 

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From the original “final scenario” sketch to …

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… a “Personal Cloud Kit”, composed of various physical and digital modular artifacts.

 

What emerged reinforced from the main design scenario is that we seek to deliver four artifacts (some physical, some digital, some combined) which themselves will constitute the building blocks of what we’ll call “A Personal Cloud Kit”. All four parts of this kit will be openly accessible on a dedicated website (e.g. in a similar way to what OpenDesk is doing).

The purpose of this “home kit” is to empower designers, makers and citizens at large who would be interested to start develop their own cloud projects, manage or interact with their data or even to set up small scale personal data centers at their places (homes, offices, garages …)

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