%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/esi-design-terrell-place-reactive-media-installation-washington-dc-07-11-2016/ giant motion-activated media reacts to passersby in washington DC office building
inside terrell place, ESI design has realized a 1,700 square foot reactive installation that captures the bustling pulse of the building.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jul/11/goshka-macuga-android-robots-art Do androids dream of aesthetic creep? Hail the robots of post-human art
Goshka Macuga's uncanny android is just the latest in an army of artist's robots that began invading 100 years ago with one question: what is it to be human?
The androids have arrived, at least a century after modern art prophesied them. Artificial humans are advancing from the screens and pages of science fiction into our art galleries to look their flesh and blood cousins eerily in the eye.
Artist Goshka Macuga, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2008, has created a talking android for her latest exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. It has black hair and bushy beard and talks philosophy: an intellectualtake on the Action Man toys I used to play with as a child. Macuga's robot has all the spooky uncanniness of a synthetic person with a realistically moulded face and bionic arms. Most robots have futuristic names, or cosy ones to suggest they are cute and friendly. Macuga's creation is called To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll.
%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jul/11/goshka-macuga-android-robots-art Do androids dream of aesthetic creep? Hail the robots of post-human art
Goshka Macuga's uncanny android is just the latest in an army of artist's robots that began invading 100 years ago with one question: what is it to be human?
The androids have arrived, at least a century after modern art prophesied them. Artificial humans are advancing from the screens and pages of science fiction into our art galleries to look their flesh and blood cousins eerily in the eye.
Artist Goshka Macuga, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2008, has created a talking android for her latest exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. It has black hair and bushy beard and talks philosophy: an intellectualtake on the Action Man toys I used to play with as a child. Macuga's robot has all the spooky uncanniness of a synthetic person with a realistically moulded face and bionic arms. Most robots have futuristic names, or cosy ones to suggest they are cute and friendly. Macuga's creation is called To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll.
%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/eness-sonic-light-bubble-melbourne-07-11-2016/ ENESS' sonic light bubble installation in melbourne responds to human interaction
the living breathing bubble responds with light and sound when touched.
%feed http://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-19-july-2016/network-rail-launches-inclusive-design-strategy-disabled-passengers/ Network Rail launches inclusive design strategy Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne and Comedian Francesca Martinez who launched the Spaces and Places for Everyone scheme
Network Rail has published an inclusive design strategy in a bid to make Britain's rail network more accessible for disabled people.
The Spaces and Places for Everyone initiative is a commitment to making sure that design thinking is “deeply embedded within Network Rail as an organisation” according to its chief executive Mark Carne.
Accessibility panel set up
A built environment accessibility panel has been set up. It uses co-design principals and is made up of disabled passengers who are also experts in inclusive design and can provide technical and strategic advice to project teams.
The new inclusive design thinking has been prompted by Network Rail-commissioned research, which finds that 67% of disabled people who travel, chose to travel by rail. Of these, 24% felt their journey would not be an easy one and 33% said they would use the train more if it were more accessible to them.
“We know it has not been good enough”
Carne says: “Most of today's railway was designed during the Victorian era when attitudes towards disability were very different. Since then, access for disabled people has been tagged on at a later stage, rather than being part of the initial design strategy for our railway. We know it has not been good enough in the past, and we need to make it easier for disabled people to plan journeys and travel by rail.
“We are committed to changing this, and doing what is necessary to make sure that inclusivity is deeply embedded in our culture. Only then will our railway be a place where everyone can travel equally, confidently and independently.”
Some of the changes have already begun to roll out. At Birmingham New Street an area for guide dogs to go for a wee has been created, while at Reading station an audio guide has been created by Microsoft so that visually impaired people can find their way out of the station and around the town.
Meanwhile at London Bridge lifts and escalators are being redeveloped to improve access and these are expected to open to passengers this summer.
%feed http://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-19-july-2016/nestle-celebrates-150th-birthday-interactive-exhibition-space-switzerland/ Nestlé celebrates its 150th birthday with interactive exhibition space in Switzerland
Dutch consultancy Tinker Imagineers has designed a new exhibition space for Nestlé, 150 years after the food company was founded.
To coincide with the anniversary, Nest is located in founder Henri Nestlé's first factory from 1866 in Vevey at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
The factory, which opened in June, has been renovated by Switzerland-based Concept-Consult Architectes, which has added a glass roof and steel construction to the building as part of the €45m (£38m) project.
Industrial architecture and organic interiors
Tinker Imagineers, who became involved with the project two years ago, hoped to balance the industrial design of the factory space with more “organic” interiors, according to partner and founder, Erik Bär.
Beneath the glass roof sits a hovering platform covered in white fabric that overlooks the rest of the exhibition, “reflecting an almost timeless world”, says Bär.
The white stretched fabric installation is made up of ten different exhibits, including a 3D body scanner that shows what happens to different food types inside the body using an avatar.
Nest is split into past, present and future zones, where visitors can do everything from look at a prototype of the first Nespresso machine to try out an interactive table, known as the “forum”.
“Since Nestle is criticised quite a lot in the media I thought the best thing they could do was something they didn't have in the original concept…to dedicate a zone completely the challenges in producing food for eight billion people,” says Bär.
Explores global issues such as agriculture and sustainability
The forum is designed to explore global issues, such as agriculture, sustainability, water and food production, as well their potential solutions, he explains.
Each theme is represented by a different icon and colour, which light up trails on the table and provide information about the selected topic on a screen.
Tinker Imagineers has also explored the artistic side of exhibition design with the project. In the middle of the central atrium is a life-sized tree decorated with more than 1,200 flowers handmade from different Nestlé product packaging, such as Nescafé.
The most important element of the exhibition for Bär was to make each zone look and feel completely different, he says.
“In the past zone we looked back at early cinema techniques which worked quite well…and then gradually things get lighter and more modern. It's the variety that I am happiest with.”
%feed http://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-19-july-2016/new-design-exhibition-hopes-take-away-stigma-associated-dyslexia/ New design exhibition hopes to remove stigma associated with dyslexia Egg, by Sebastian Bergne, manufactured by Designerbox 2014
An exhibition exploring the work of dyslexic designers will open next month, with the aim of presenting dyslexia as an alternative way of thinking rather than a health condition.
Dyslexic Design is part of this year's Designjunction, the annual design exhibition which takes place in London, Milan and New York.
“Reveal dyslexia as a gift”
The exhibition will show the work of designers with dyslexia from disciplines including product, fashion, illustration, home décor and fine art, such as Sebastian Bergne, Kristjana S Williams, Terence Woodgate and Tina Crawford.
It aims to explore the “connection between dyslexia and the creative industries”, says Designjunction, looking at the positives as well as the challenges that can come from working with the learning difference.
The exhibition's main goal is to “take away the stigma of dyslexia and reveal it as a gift”, say the organisers.
For example, it will look at how dyslexia affects a person's lateral and visual thinking, and therefore creativity, and how the learning difference can prescribe “unusual three-dimensional thinking”.
“Dyslexia led me down the path of art and design”
The exhibition's founder, and one of the exhibitors, Jim Rokos, says: “It is my belief that I am able to design the way I do, because of my dyslexia and not despite it,” he says.
“I [want] to remove the unwanted and unwarranted stigma sometimes associated with dyslexia and in doing so change perceptions of it. We believe dyslexia is something that drives and inspires creative thought and design,” he adds.
Debates will also take place in the exhibition space, around how dyslexia is perceived in design education, whether it should no longer be classed as a disability and seen rather as an alternative brain structure, and how it affects a person's lateral and visual thinking.
Deborah Spencer, designjunction's managing director, says: “I had grown up with dyslexia and I believe it played an integral part in leading me down the path of art and design.”
Takes place in September
Dyslexic Design takes place 17-25 September, as part of Designjunction, which runs from 22-25 September 2016. Tickets to Designjunction are £12 in advance or £15 on the door, and will grant access to the dyslexia exhibition. A percentage of ticket sales will be donated to the British Dyslexia Association. Find out more about the exhibition here.
Designjunction, now in its sixth year, is part of the London Design Festival, and takes place at a new venue in King's Cross this year, based around the theme of Immersed in Design.
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Mildred (Gorgon), by Tina Crawford 2016Gauge Crystal, by Jim Rokos 2014Knot pendant lamp, by Vitamin 2012Gull Latinu Amerika, by Kristjana WilliamsSurface Table, by Terence Woodgate 2008 (In collaboration with John Barnard RDI)
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