The future of surveillance

As I already mentioned, technological development are encouraged in first place for military and security purposes and only afterwards, usually, arrives a sort of democratisation of the technology, which is then applied also to other features of life. In order to speculate about the future of surveillance it’s important, firstly, to focus on the proper meaning of the word surveillance,…

Social objects for energy saving – part II

My area of interest for the social object project is how people interact with the environment, their behaviour toward energy, in particular electrical energy and their concern about energy saving. Hence, the starting point of my research is not really sustainable design, which is a filtered way to see the issue, being a field where these concerned have already been…

Facial recognition and autonomous weapons

Most of technological developments have been improved first of all for military purposes and often used as/for weapons. The reason is in most of the cases is the high cost of researches, experimentations and first prototypes, which usually can be covered only by governments funding for military purposes. Thus, weapons are incredibly developed, but current issue in big discussion regards …

Facial recognition

With news nowadays referring to a war on terrorism and threatening protagonists living hidden around us, the theme of surveillance and public identification is often in the spotlight. Governments are seeing the growth of fear, due to recent terrorist attacks in Europe, as a good reason to intensify surveillance systems. Many people, though are concerned about their privacy, which would…

Social objects for energy saving

For my next major project, my task is to create a social object using physical computing as an agent. But, what is it a social object? “The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.” Hugh Macleod The cartoonist Hugh MacLeod is the man who popularized…

The Interaction Pyramid

The interaction pyramids qualifies interaction design projects, into four classes, technological, social, critical and pataphysical. The structure of a pyramid means that projects sitting on an higher step will generally have properties from lower steps. The first step, Technological regards almost all the projects of interaction design, as it is assumed that some technology is present in it. The second…

Design Thinking and Speculative Design

The CEO of IDEO, Tim Brown in the last years has been focusing on design thinking, so that he his also running a blog regarding exclusively this topic. Here is one of his most famous talks, where he urges designers to think big, to focus on more important things than fashionable little objects and so to redefine the function of…

Luna, the smart mattress cover

Luna is an accessory which analyzes our sleep’s data and tells us how to improve it. It is the world’s first mattress cover which can detect a range of information during our hours of rest and communicate it through an app. The idea comes from three Italians, currently living in San Francisco, who reached  five times the budget required for…

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