Futures and Alternative Nows

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Futures and Alternative Nows

• Groep 5 Birgen Geelen, Christof Derwael, Jasper
  Boncquet Jelle Ghys

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Tony Dunne Fiona Raby
• Jun Rekimoto
• John Maeda
• Looking Glass

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Tony Dunne Fiona Raby
• Founding members of CRD Research Studio
• Design Product and Architecture Interiors
  departments
• Alternative nows
• Placebo Project
• Existential Design

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Tony Dunne Fiona Raby
• Placebo Project
• Personal Protection Device
• GPS Table
• Nipple Chair
• Compass Table

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Tony Dunne Fiona Raby
• Existential Design
• Energy Futures, London Science Museum
• Teddy bear blood bags
• Poo lunch box
• Utility pets

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Jun Rekimoto
• Sony Computer Science Labs
• The Interaction Laboratory
• Augmented Reality
• Ubiquitous Computing

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Jun Rekimoto
• The Interaction Laboratory
• ActiveInk computational ink
• BlockJam interactive music cubes
• TouchEngine tactile feedback for touch panels
• Time-Machine Computing navigation system

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Jun Rekimoto
• Augmented Reality

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Jun Rekimoto
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Pick-and-drop
• Gestural interfaces
• Sensors and receptors

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Futures Alternative Nows

• John Maeda
• Engineering at MIT
• Product design in Japan
• Mainichi Design Prize, National Design Award
• Professor at MIT Media Lab
• Simplicity
• maedastudio.com

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Futures Alternative Nows

• John Maeda (cont.)
• Simplicity
• A design-oriented program aimed at redefining our
  relationship with technology in our daily lives
• Open free software
• Simpler, yet powerful
• Less is more, eg iPod

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Futures Alternative Nows

• John Maeda (cont.)
• MIT Treehouse Studio
• Introduce children and adults to the ideas of
  digital arts and design

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Futures Alternative Nows

• John Maeda (cont.)
• Design by numbers
• First step to programming for visual designers
• Use the right tools (pencil vs computer)

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Futures Alternative Nows

• John Maeda (cont.)
• Maeda_at_Media
• Written designed entirely by himself
• Laws of simplicity
• http//lawsofsimplicity.com/
• Reduce, Organize, Time, Learn, Differences,
  Context, Emotion, Trust, Failure, The One

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Futures Alternative Nows

• Looking Glass

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