Monday, 10 October 2011
Friday, 7 October 2011
Book v screen
Very interesting debate on Radio 4, broadcast today. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015cslc. The discussion starts about 11 minutes in. Some of the content is similar to what was discussed in the group yesterday, although thankfully none of us spoke like one of the contributors.
Victoria
Victoria
For Ferdinand
I am going to a music/visual festival in Poland next week and this is one of the talks
Presentation: “Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy,” with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico
Face to Facebook was a social experiment: stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting on a custom-made dating website (lovely-faces.com). The aim: to give virtual identities a shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules. The reaction: huge media coverage, as well as lawsuits and death threats.
Tickets: Free
don't know if you are a member of the blog yet I'll email also
Presentation: “Face to Facebook – Hacking Monopolism Trilogy,” with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico
Face to Facebook was a social experiment: stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting on a custom-made dating website (lovely-faces.com). The aim: to give virtual identities a shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules. The reaction: huge media coverage, as well as lawsuits and death threats.
Tickets: Free
don't know if you are a member of the blog yet I'll email also
Visualising the Desing Process
Every story has a beginning (briefing), middle (design process) and an end (end product). I am interested in what happens in between. The thinking process. Currently theories of the process are visualised with dry infographics, not taking into consideration that the process changes according to project and designer.
When giving the same briefing to a group of designers, how does the design process change what comes out at the end?
When giving the same briefing to a group of designers, how does the design process change what comes out at the end?
Updated
17th November, whole group tutorial
9th January, Beginning of Spring Term
16th April, Beginning of Summer Term
7th - 11th February, MACD - Work in Progress Show
14th - 18th May, Symposium - present research
6th - 12th June, Assessment for the whole year (research report + visual pieces)
13th June, Exam Board (validifying marks)
13th June, Start of Exhibition (private view)
16th June, Exhibition (family view)
16th July, Degree Ceremony
@CSM - Researchers presenting their work in progress
next: 19th October, Fashion and Media
TATE Gallery, 2 day symposium
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/24490.htm
28th & 29th October
(£20 concessions), booking required
9th January, Beginning of Spring Term
16th April, Beginning of Summer Term
7th - 11th February, MACD - Work in Progress Show
14th - 18th May, Symposium - present research
6th - 12th June, Assessment for the whole year (research report + visual pieces)
13th June, Exam Board (validifying marks)
13th June, Start of Exhibition (private view)
16th June, Exhibition (family view)
16th July, Degree Ceremony
@CSM - Researchers presenting their work in progress
next: 19th October, Fashion and Media
TATE Gallery, 2 day symposium
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/24490.htm
28th & 29th October
(£20 concessions), booking required
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Holiday break report
Dear all,
How is it going?
I just post to present you my work in progress, what I did so far, and where I am heading right now.
A quick reminder of the state of my subject when I last meet you: Mapping the unseen (following the project of Stephen Boyd Davis), an emotional cartography.
Biomapping is a neologism. It’s a humanized way of drawing maps. Although maps are already hundred per cent human: they are a representation (made of symbols) and they are a technical process (handrawing, printing…), the biomapping aims to reveal the human hidden behind the map. This human is a sensitive living being, and is going in opposition to the “dead” unsurprising rigorist geographical maps that we are used to, which will represent spaces, more than life within spaces.
They are rational, trustworthy and precise, and serve the community (by their capability of being impersonal, collective and common). In opposition, biomapping [from the Greek βιο / life] would be the translation of the irrational, the subjective and the personal. Though it might follows the same process of representation.
How did I come up wit this idea of live maps? Human beings are seeking for exoticism. In our quest of happiness, we tend to look toward what we can’t see, because it might hide a world of possibility. Reading a map is heading somewhere, mentally escaping to another reality. Where do you want to go, says the map?
In the other hand, the science of cartography is a systematic representation of either satellite views, either architectural drawings, and remains a very down to earth and expectable way of saying how a place looks like.
The exoticism tends to disappear, and that’s the point I will actually focus on along the year.
There are three medias I will work on, relatively associated to this travel outcome.
-Travel guides
-Travel diaries
-Maps
These are three distinct commercial products, but there shouldn’t be any reasons for them to be divided, as a support, as they tend to reach the same aim: travel is about experiencing, sharing, learning and challenging yourself. It’s a living experience and we could say that it overlays three realities: the past (travel guide), the present (maps) and the future (travel diary).
Tomorrow I’ll present you some ideas I had to develop the project.
On the photo you can see Aleksei, he is a vory v zakonye (legitimate thief) and I met him in the Transsiberian, one night. As you can see, he tattooed on his chest two stars, meaning that he belongs and is a high member of this cast of thieves.
Believe me, this guy was a bad guy!
Amaya
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How is it going?
I just post to present you my work in progress, what I did so far, and where I am heading right now.
A quick reminder of the state of my subject when I last meet you: Mapping the unseen (following the project of Stephen Boyd Davis), an emotional cartography.
Biomapping is a neologism. It’s a humanized way of drawing maps. Although maps are already hundred per cent human: they are a representation (made of symbols) and they are a technical process (handrawing, printing…), the biomapping aims to reveal the human hidden behind the map. This human is a sensitive living being, and is going in opposition to the “dead” unsurprising rigorist geographical maps that we are used to, which will represent spaces, more than life within spaces.
They are rational, trustworthy and precise, and serve the community (by their capability of being impersonal, collective and common). In opposition, biomapping [from the Greek βιο / life] would be the translation of the irrational, the subjective and the personal. Though it might follows the same process of representation.
How did I come up wit this idea of live maps? Human beings are seeking for exoticism. In our quest of happiness, we tend to look toward what we can’t see, because it might hide a world of possibility. Reading a map is heading somewhere, mentally escaping to another reality. Where do you want to go, says the map?
In the other hand, the science of cartography is a systematic representation of either satellite views, either architectural drawings, and remains a very down to earth and expectable way of saying how a place looks like.
The exoticism tends to disappear, and that’s the point I will actually focus on along the year.
There are three medias I will work on, relatively associated to this travel outcome.
-Travel guides
-Travel diaries
-Maps
These are three distinct commercial products, but there shouldn’t be any reasons for them to be divided, as a support, as they tend to reach the same aim: travel is about experiencing, sharing, learning and challenging yourself. It’s a living experience and we could say that it overlays three realities: the past (travel guide), the present (maps) and the future (travel diary).
Tomorrow I’ll present you some ideas I had to develop the project.
On the photo you can see Aleksei, he is a vory v zakonye (legitimate thief) and I met him in the Transsiberian, one night. As you can see, he tattooed on his chest two stars, meaning that he belongs and is a high member of this cast of thieves.
Believe me, this guy was a bad guy!
Amaya
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" | Video on TED.com
Hi guys hope your are well; while doing some research for the strategic department I found this ted x video (so cool we're going to have that at CSM) it's very inspiring and joyful
Enjoy
chloé
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