Tag Archive for "Tools" | IICloud(s) – Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s)

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

By Patrick Keller 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

https://pinboard.in/u:toorop/t:i%2526ic_designresearch/

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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.

Website and final results > www.cloudofcards.org

By Patrick Keller Thursday, October 25, 2018 Cookbooks, Design, Ethnography, Interaction Design, Publications, Resources, X-Posts Tags: 0161, ABCD, Cabinets, Cloud, Datacenter, Furnitures, Library, Open source, Tools Permalink 1

The website presenting the downloadable results of the joint design and ethnographic research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) is now online.

Web design by Eurostandard; Photography of the final artifacts by Daniela & Tonatiuh.

Book > Design research about the cloud, a creative process and its results

By Patrick Keller Thursday, October 25, 2018 Design, Interaction Design, Publications, Schools, Thinking Tags: 0160, Cabinets, Cloud, Clouds, Datacenter, Designers, Designers (interaction), Domestic, ECAL, Open source, Scientists, Tools Permalink 0

More than a year after our last publication on this blog and the end of the scientific part of the design research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), we’re very happy to signal the publication of two books in Print on Demand (Lulu) and their accompanying free PDFs.

One book concerns the ethnographic the ethnographic research: Cloud of Practicies, while the other is dedicated to the design research and its results and uses many of the resources published on this blog along the process: Cloud of Cards.

A website gives access to the results of the research in the form of a kit: www.cloudofcards.org

Cloud of Cards:

Download the free PDF on the Cloud of Cards website (under “Publications” link), or buy the paperback version on Lulu.

Graphic design by Eurostandard; Photography of the final artifacts by Daniela & Tonatiuh.

Cloud of Cards (ABCD), a home cloud kit

By Patrick Keller 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.

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

By Patrick Keller 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).

B) Cloud of Cards Processing Library

By Patrick Keller Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Interaction Design, Projects, Schools, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0155, Automation, B, Cloud, Code, Data, ECAL, Library, Open source, Programming, Service, Storage, Tools, Visualization Permalink 0

Project developed by Christian Babski (fabric | ch)

Cloud of Cards Processing Library consists in the unification of three different API dedicated to online files and folders manipulation and the development of an additional fourth one specific to the needs of the Cloud of Cards kit and the Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) research project. The overall final package has been adapted to the Processing development language and linked to the open-source cloud software ownCloud.

Additional behaviors are included that can also be used in relation to ownCloud (or Nextcloud), for both its server and clients. These additional functions are the implemented results of the design research process, linked to an ethnographic study about the cloud user experience.

Through the use of this new library written in Processing and linked to other open-source tools, it is now easier for a wider public to experiment, sketch and develop alternative interfaces, visual or physical applications for the cloud. In particular, the communities of designers and makers that are used to the Processing language.