In occasione della nona edizione del Lodz Design Festival, sono stato selezionato per partecipare ad un workshop della durata di un giorno sul tema della progettazione di nuove tecnologie come estensioni del nostro apparato sensoriale. Workshop condotto da due giovanissime e affermate figure del mondo del design contemporaneo.

Più di sei ore trascorse tra presentazioni di progetti, dibattiti e brainstorming, un continuo incoraggiamento a sognare, a restituire credibilità alle nostre visioni, spazzare via schemi e sovrastrutture superflue...tornare ad avere una mente libera come quella di un bambino, CREDERE!!

ecco qualche info e link utili agli interessati Emoticon wink

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WORKSHOP- SPECULATIVE SENSING

Presenters: Agata Kiedrowicz, Hendrik-Jan Grievink

For whom: designers, journalists, researchers, humanists and everyone who’s interested in critical and speculative aspects of design.

Number of participants: 30

When: 10.10 (Saturday), 11:00-16:00

16:30-17:30 – presentation of the results

Where: Lodz Design Festival Centre 1, Art Inkubator Tymienieckiego Street 3, room A120

Perché le tecnologie attuali sembrano spesso solo versioni semi-realizzate dei sogni brillanti chei in realtà abbiamo? Il nostro scintillante telefono cellulare non è forse una materializzazione annacquata del sogno di comunicazione telepatica? Perché non siamo in grado di sentire gli odori nel regno del digitale?

Durante questo workshop, esploreremo attivamente il design mirato all’estensione dei sensi in un modo altamente speculativo. Sogneremo scenari che sembrano fantastici in un primo momento, ma che in realtà possono dare indicazioni chiare per lo sviluppo di servizi ed esperienze future, rivelando un ambiente tecnologico più appagante in cui i nostri sensi sono veramente riconosciuti. Una idea centrale qui sarà la Piramide della tecnologia, un modello concettuale che esplora come la tecnologia ridiventa natura attraverso sette fasi in successione. Questa piramide suscita una profonda riflessione verso una comprensione più inclusiva della tecnologia, e serve sia come metodo di analisi critica, sia come strumento di progettazione per strategie innovative.

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Agata Kiedrowicz designs content, situations, experiences. Author of publications and interviews in the area of fashion, design, art. Journalist who cooperates with FUTU, Monitor Magazine, also lead author of heading “Tastes of the Design” in the weekly Kultura Liberalna.pl. She is interested in broadly understood design as a tool for exploration and critique of reality and broadening the field of sensory experience of the world. The author and coordinator of social and educational projects, including Wielkopolska: Revolutions (Wielkopolska Marshal’s Office) with Monika Jakubiak and Paweł Grobelny. It works with cultural institutions, art galleries, artists, NGOs. Co-organizer of the interdisciplinary conference “Invisible DESIGN”. Recently, she combines humanistic thoughts and design in the Poznan School of Form. It also deals with research trends and publications by image for brands from the fashion and design.

Hendrik-Jan Grievink is an Amsterdam-based designer and art director of Next Nature Network, a non-profit organization that explores how technology becomes our next nature through design research and cross-media publications. Among his works are Fake for Real (a memory game on the tensed relation between reality and simulation, BIS publishers 2007), the NANO Supermarket (a traveling exhibition-disguised-as-supermarket that presents speculative future technologies, ongoing) the book Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us (Actar, 2012) and the In Vitro Meat Cookbook (a design fiction project that explores the future of meat, BIS publishers 2014). Hendrik-Jan produces conceptual models for design thinking, such as the Pyramid of Technology, a model which speculates how technology becomes nature in seven steps and leads workshops in which these models are put to work. He teaches design research at ArtEZ institute for the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands and is co-organiser of the Summer Sessions, a mobile summerschool program with editions in Lithuania, Beijing (China) and Detroit (USA).

EN

Why do technologies so often seem only half-realized versions of the brilliant dreams we actually have? Isn’t our glimmering mobile phone merely a watered-down materialization of the dream of telepathic communication? And why actually aren’t we able to smell in the digital realm?

During this workshop, we are going to actively explore design for the senses in a highly speculative way. We will dream up scenarios that seem fantastic at first, but actually give clear directions to the development of future services and experiences, resulting in a more fulfilling technological environment in which our senses are truly acknowledged. A central idea here will be the Pyramid of Technology, a conceptual model that explores how technology becomes nature in a series of seven successive steps. This Pyramid of Technology facilitates a profound discussion around a more inclusive understanding of technology, and serves both as a method for critical analysis as well as a speculative design thinking tool for innovative strategies.