Random Inspiration
Crispin Jones - An Invisible Force
One can insert a card with a question. Press it down in the metal slots which gets hotter and hotter. One will have to endure pain to see the answer.
Critical Artifacts
Examples of critical artifacts
James Auger, Smell+
Susana Soares, Vegetarian Tooth
The Curious Home
A project by Bill Gaver about the Curious Home. He is looking at the influence of ludic technological objects in a home setting.
The Plane Tracker & Local Barometer
The History Tablecoth
The Drift Table
The Key Table
Project Proposal
Provotyping in the wild
| Student name | Bas Botermans (B.A.M.Botermans[at]student.tudelft.nl) |
| Chair of supervisory team | Walter Aprile (W.A.Aprile[at]tudelft.nl) |
| Mentor of supervisory team | Froukje Sleeswijk-Visser (F.SleeswijkVisser[at]tudelft.nl) |
| Company name | Mads Clausen Institute (SPIRE) – University of Southern Denmark |
| Country | Denmark |
| Company mentor | Jared Donovan (jared[at]mci.sdu.dk) |
| Start date | Februari 2010 |
| End date | July 2010 |
Introduction
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a better horse”
This quotation by Henry Ford does not state that we should not include end-users in the design process, but it shows that people are bound to think within their frame of reference. How can designers understand what users want, need and dream of if those customers don’t know what they can have? That is what this project in short will be about: developing a method to, together with people, broaden the design scope to inform and inspire the design process.
Workspace in Denmark
Again a movie but this time my workspace in Denmark at the SDU Mads Clausen Institute, the SPIRE center.
It is after work times, but still not very different than before...
Room in Denmark
After a lot of hassle I finally got my room in Denmark! It is at the Ungdomskollegiet.
It is not very big but it is will do for the time being. The biggest thing in my 'student room experience' is an actual bed instead of a couch that can be transformed to something that had bed-ish qualities.
To blog or not to blog…
Well hi again! A fresh start with a standard layout.
This time it is all about my DFI graduation project about Provotypes.
More about this later on.
Ciao!
Bas