15 May 2015
The first scene doesn’t work
Few weeks ago I managed to shoot the first scene for my Speculative Design film, it was 30 seconds as expected, the weather was finally cloudy and sad, however it didn’t really work. It’s my first experience both as video director and as cameramen for something, say, built up. The scene is representing what I wanted, but really in a…
6 May 2015
Project ready for Berlin
My project on Social Object is ready for the ThingsCon conference in Berlin. After spending a month trying to build a prototype forThe Stubborn Door, I had eventually to give in my idea for logistic reason (reported in my previous post).
Hence, I get back to my previous room mockup showing The Morning Window having only a week I did…
29 April 2015
The stubborn door – attempt failed
After the design critic with my tutor Nicolas, emerged that the prototype of the Morning Bling it’s nice and works fine, however it is only a scaled model and it’s impossible to interact with it. Furthermore, the strongest idea of my project is probably the stubborn door rather than the window. Thus I’ve been suggested to work on the door.…
17 April 2015
First scene scene storyboard
The outcome of my speculative design project will be a 3 minutes film, where I intend to show how facial recognition technologies in everyday life would change people’s way to relate and how simple interactions between them would be probably mutated.
I would like to show this in a sort of sad and paranoiac vision, on the same line of…
28 March 2015
Cheeky Objects – first prototype
For a first prototype of the Cheeky Objects, my physical computing project focused on social objects for energy saving, I choose to represent one of them: the annoying window blind.
The concept is very simple, when there is enough light outside, the window blinds will automatically open and the light inside will switch off, an easy trick to take advantage…
15 March 2015
What if chosen scenario – New kind of relationships
The what if scenario which I chose to develop for my Speculative Design project is the one where the use of surveillance technologies and in particular of facial recognition systems will be democratised and applied to different fields. From security to common use.
The idea is that people will have facial recognition technologies installed on their personal devices and through…
13 March 2015
Interactive Hoarding for Cancer Foundation
Great example of interactive design used for marketing. This shocking project, made to rise awareness and support cancer research shows how powerful this discipline could be if applied to brilliant marketing ideas.
The idea is from a Swedish marketing agency, which was normally advertise a shampoo brand, but realised this particular project for the Swedish childhood cancer foundation Barcancancer Fonden.…
6 March 2015
What if scenarios
After having investigated the current status of surveillance systems and their possible developments, it’s time to think about some future what-if scenarios.
I tried to think about different outcomes, from the most absurd to the most predictable and here they are listed:
– COUNTERMEASURES
with all the progresses in security there have always been developments to defeat those progresses. What…
28 February 2015
Cheeky objects
“It’s not always easy to be with smarts, especially if they are smarter than you”
The IoT aims to make our houses smarter and smarter, to enhance our comfort and our lifestyle, but what happens when a house knows better than you which behaviours are more appropriate and more sustainable for the environment for example? It could be not always…