set up a post box?
follow a post man for a day?
creative junk mail?
delivery by bicycle?
air mail?
lost sock? sew in the address...
answer machine?
post it table?
writing on money?
telling stories?
keep diaries?
serendipity?
chinese whispers?
consequences?
hello. i believe in...?
think about newspapers? the lay out. the headline. they have never changed.
where do people put the articles they keep?
the whole pack must be poetic and fit together. i want to get the user excited.
"there is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry with it"
think about the vanishing tradition of letter writing.
"the truth is rarely true and never simple."
"i am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundance and to the ordinary so that the extra ordinary explodes in your life..."...
thinking more about technology
(thoughts from reading design noir: the secret life of electronic objects by anthony dunne and fiona raby.)
electric objects are disembodied machines with extended invisible skins. they couple and decouple with our bodies without is knowing.
how do they touch us?
do they merely reflect off our skin, or the surface of our internal organs?
do they 'see' us?
can they 'read' us?
extracting personal information about our identity, status and health?
do they offer physical protection or comfort?
what happens if a product says it does something it doesn't?
imagine putting letters in 'forever safe vault'.
think about creating poetic ghosts of letters?
think about making private situations and information public?
imagine typing to a different location?
tells you where you are?moving image?surveillance?
hertizan space: an object users use to 'get away' and be free from electrosmog and harm.
electric technology can give existing objects new and almost magical qaulities.
some people are allergic to electromagnetic fields and suffer from electrical sensitivity.
"designers would need to become like authors, drawing from the fringes of material culture, where products and services satisfy difficult and unusual needs"
refer to this rich narrative space as a context of use instead of the models of normality usually referred to when new functional possibilities are being developed...
" i want it to help me tell lies..."
think about loneliness, deception, paranoia, hopelessness, lust.
critical design
asks carefully crafted questions and makes us think. positive. challenging. what we actually need. the way poetic moments can be intertwined with the everyday and not seperated from it.
haute couture. stimulate discussions and debate amongst designers.
"coorporations have a bigger influence on reality than government, and buying power is more important the voting power. a world where shopping has more political impact than voting is a threat to democracy."
i want my product to be grounded in how people really behave.
perhaps blur boundaries between the real and the functional.
anthropomorphic : "it's as though you are sitting on its lap"
think about where the object will be stored.
"occasionally has to be brought out doors to fulfill its potential"
all this suggests how electronic objects can use a more gentle language to capture our attention.
domesticating the telephone. phone is put inside a table with ringer switched off. when phone is called the top of the table glows gently.
i want to have an object ready early enough that it can spend time in peoples homes.
think about cables. ironing cable. like an appliance. like an old telephone.
i like metronomes. good question to ask someone
"if you had to give this object to someone- who would it be and why?"
do i want my product to have human feelings? check it is safe, it is lost? is it hurt?
the workings of it could become a mystery to the user.
the stump chair by midori araki:
engraved a fragment of a poem on each of the 20 stump chairs. each person had their individual peice, so that when 20 people are together, they can share the pleasure of the whole poem.
contemporary fairytale by jurgen bey
when two things meet the poem appears.
"in such a subtle, even subversive way Bey asks us questions and makes us conscious of our surroundings, rehabilitating not just objects but our relationship to them."
subliminal furniture inspires my thinking.projects by noam toran
i will advertise my product as if it really exists...
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