http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog interaction design: work in progress Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:13:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Friday we had a first hands-on workshop for our radio kit, the Fab FM. This project is collaboration with Dave Mellis, at the MIT Media Lab High-Low Tech group. Fab FM allows people to fabricate their own radios, or even manufacture small series. People can follow our basic kit design ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/fab-fm-workshop-at-the-media-lab/ A visit at IDHO's Interaction Lab, to give a little talk about play experience and to check out the students presentations of their own play experience designs. So far they focused on game-play and some screen based stuff - but their semester has just started... We will keep an eye ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/playidho-at-the-interaction-lab-holon/ I had the pleasure to guide the workshop at the great Parisian school of design, ENSAD. The mixed background students, worked in six groups of two and created awesome hybrid projects blending old tradition and new technology. You can read more about each one of the projects and process ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/hybrid-materials-workshop-at-ensad/ The Fab Radio just made a fabulous appearance on Makezine. Fab Radio is a lovely project allowing everyone out there to build their own personal radios. This was part of Dave Mellis' project for the Neil Gershenfeld's famous class: "How To Make (almost) Anything". We were ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/fab-radio-on-make-blog/ Lately I was helping out a bit for the audio of the War Veteran Vehicle. This second version of the Veteran Vehicle installation, done by the Interrogative Design Group (IDG), was created for the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival in Liverpool. This Vehicle is a converted British Military Land Rover, ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/veterans-vehicle-liverpool/ Some of the WildUrban objects will be presented at the HEMBI (Human-Environment Mobile-Based Interactions) workshop. If you're around Cambridge, on September 15-16, please be sure to visit the Media Lab. Myriel Milicevic will talk about Neighbourhood Satellites projects, and Natalie Jeremijenko about the Texting Fish, Wrestling Beetles, Translating Birds, ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/human-environment-interactions-workshop/ Now starting an exciting collaboration with Elisabeth de Senneville, designing a charming futuristic vision (or so it seems at the moment). Elisabeth is a fascinating artist, a fashion designer and a pioneer of innovations in the area of textile. I do hope to reveal more details and images about that project ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/designing-a-lighter-future/ Yeah! "Look here, look here": That's Zazaziza and the Undercover at Droog http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/zazazizas-undercover-at-droog/ Presenting at Harvard the WildUrban Radio, a unique device that allows pleasurable eavesdropping on our wildlife neighbours. The navigation knob allows you, the urban dweller, to explore various directions of near-by wild audio streaming. As we tune into the life of an animal, we can sync our daily routines with it, creating ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/wildurban-radio-at-gsd/ I have presented "Suspense", a wireless energy lamp, at the Palais de Tokyo. The lamp celebrated the TeslaManiacs, an art-science event regarding wireless energy, as a part of the Gakona exhibition. Since JB and I are in the US at the moment, we have enjoyed a transatlantic live video-audio ... http://www.dana-gordon.com/blog/hovering-light-over-the-beaming-table/