Tuesday 21 October 2008
Part of the poetics of noticing is engaging with the everyday world on a deeper level.
Considering all the unaccounted for coincidences and actions that occur daily, under our noses. Is there room for thought in a computer chip?
If we can help an object to communicate is it possible for us to relate to them, and understand their thoughts and feelings?
The tons of accumulated products that decorate the skyline in landfills across the world, are symptomatic of ‘failed relationships’ between users and products.
Is it possible that designed products can have a character independent of their function? Is individuality a personified concept? Or can it be applied to objects?
5000 ideas presentation (a light introduction)
This project began with a series of small, basic tests to find out if products where willing to communicate. Is it possible for an object to have an identity above that which is determined for it? Mass production is the complete opposite to nature. Nothing is left to chance. Every minute detail is considered in the manufacture of the product. Yet products never the less act differently, and seem to have individual personalities and capabilities. This project was about creating poetry within the hidden mysteries of the everyday.
When studying the products carefully, you can begin to see differences in their behaviour. There is no reason. They perform the same task, but do so in various bizarre ways.
The onset of the project was to design an intervention that could help a product communicate. This concept is however based upon the assumption that they are not already communicating.
I recorded and documented the actions of 4 washing machines and their particular behaviours, creating a series of movies about their activities. Their reactions are open to interpretation.
I also then played with the digital code created in the movies, and made a series of musical tracks entitled ‘The washing machine symphonies 1-6’
Considering all the unaccounted for coincidences and actions that occur daily, under our noses. Is there room for thought in a computer chip?
If we can help an object to communicate is it possible for us to relate to them, and understand their thoughts and feelings?
The tons of accumulated products that decorate the skyline in landfills across the world, are symptomatic of ‘failed relationships’ between users and products.
Is it possible that designed products can have a character independent of their function? Is individuality a personified concept? Or can it be applied to objects?
5000 ideas presentation (a light introduction)
This project began with a series of small, basic tests to find out if products where willing to communicate. Is it possible for an object to have an identity above that which is determined for it? Mass production is the complete opposite to nature. Nothing is left to chance. Every minute detail is considered in the manufacture of the product. Yet products never the less act differently, and seem to have individual personalities and capabilities. This project was about creating poetry within the hidden mysteries of the everyday.
When studying the products carefully, you can begin to see differences in their behaviour. There is no reason. They perform the same task, but do so in various bizarre ways.
The onset of the project was to design an intervention that could help a product communicate. This concept is however based upon the assumption that they are not already communicating.
I recorded and documented the actions of 4 washing machines and their particular behaviours, creating a series of movies about their activities. Their reactions are open to interpretation.
I also then played with the digital code created in the movies, and made a series of musical tracks entitled ‘The washing machine symphonies 1-6’
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