New Economic Imaginaries
Shortish talk given at Venture Three in late 2019 on New (Digital) Economic Imaginaries, part of their Beyond Money series…
CHI Lites: Designing Things with Spending Power
I’m never sure about self promotion, but this was a 15 minute talk from last easters CHI Lites 2018 event in Montreal: The team did a good job to superimpose the slides over the projection to make for a stronger contrast. In many ways this was the 2018 talk. Giving things power by giving them […]
ICO by Design
In the annals of blockchain, 2017 will perhaps be remembered for the explosion of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) that defined a popular characteristic of the technology to support the design of business models that are underpinned by a digital token. Borrowing their title from IPOs (Initial Public Offering), ICOs are propositions toward micro digital economies […]
New Economic Imaginaries
Amongst the works that have emerged through the ‘after money’ related projects which include the AHRC Design in Action, ESRC After Money, EPSRC OxChain and EPSRC PETRAS, a series of products and platforms have provoked a line of thought to consider the extent to which interaction with these prototypes are able to impact upon the […]
Inside the Tent
Last year I was invited to develop a project brief for games designers. With a good friend from the BBC we came up with the proposal below. The tent scene in Wheatley’s movie remains a terrifying moment in contemporary horror and even more fascinating because it is set in a time and place that is […]
Product Design Friday lectures
It is here that I shall keep adding links to PDF’s by visiting speakers who contribute to the Product Design Friday Lecture series… Overview 2016: Image: Agatha Haines Download poster for series: https://www.chrisspeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PD-Lectures-Spring-2015.pdf Diego Zamora slides: https://www.chrisspeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Emerging-practitioners-Creative-technologies-PD-lecture.pdf Hadi H.Mehrpouya slides: http://hadi.link/presentations/product-design-jan-2016.html Ian Lambert slides: https://www.chrisspeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ECA-lecture-05.02.16.pdf
Haggling and ‘fairness’ in the Internet of Secondhand Things
Siobhan Magee, Design Ethnography, Design Informatics Thursday 27th March 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House Which idioms and practices do people in Manchester use to talk about and/or construct the respective values of technologies, secondhand things, and social relations? What does it mean for smartphone-enabled practices to inspire designs in which smartphones are only minimally […]
Mark Selby talk Experiencing Data
Experiencing Data Mark Selby, Centre for Design Informatics Thursday 13th February 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House We have always used technology to document and record the world and our experiences within it. Digital technologies now allow us to do this on an unprecedented scale, creating vast data sets that cover almost every aspect […]
John Wood Talk
Metadesigning; Surviving by re-designing design John Wood, Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths Thursday 30th January 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
Mark Kobine talk
So what do you Do? Mark Kobine, ECA / Independent Designer Thursday 23rd January 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
Design Informatics Research Talks Winter 2014
Download the PDF here Research Seminars Semester 2 T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House, ECA – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
Dancing with Robots Workshop at TEI2014
If you’re heading to TEI 2014 in Munich in February, please consider joining us on the Sunday 16th 9.00-18.00: see bottom for signup details Studio: Dancing robots Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Larissa Pschetz, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh l Jon Oberlander, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Alexandros […]
Breakfast ‘things’
Crude network of objects and services connected during a Speed family week day breakfast. Surprisingly limited, but then we have to be out and on the road quite quickly. I expect that weekends would be much more complex… PDF here
7-9pm
6.45 Steph leaves to the train station to go out for a drink with a friend in town, leaving me with my son (Eric 10), his friend who is sleeping over for a treat (Ollie 10), and my daughter (Mary 7). Eric and Ollie and playing out the front with Nerf guns, armed and completely […]
Showertime
Shower routine… Auto-ethnography of my shower routine for the HAT project 1. Get the shower running. It’s a Mira shower running from a combi boiler downstairs in the kitchen so it takes approx 2 mins to get up to heat. It’s a nice simple shower, possibly the best I’ve ever had – it has […]
From Wolpertingers to Co-Things
The first in the series of Design Informatics Research Talks is by me…! From Wolpertingers to Co-Things Chris Speed, School of Design Thursday 19th September 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House This presentation will use case studies from recent RCUK funded projects to explore the shifting role of artefacts within social networks. These include: collaborative […]
Design Informatics Research Talks
The Design Informatics team are pleased to invite you to the Research Seminar programme for this semester. You will see from the poster that we have a mix of Intra-talks from members of the Schools of Design and School of Informatics, and Extra-Talks from like-minded folk from across the UK. We have scheduled the Intra-Talks on Thursday afternoons […]
Design Fictions and the Domestic
Part of my initial work for the HAT project involves scoping some of the Design Fictions that feature domestic systems that engage with the human and in some cases non-human. The concept of domestic may be at times obvious, at others it may be tenuous but I hope that I can reveal these in short […]
Rob van Kranenburg talk and workshop
To be or not to be human in the smart city Rob van Kranenburg, Head of Public Domain at Waag Society & Founder of the IOT Council Talk 4.30pm / 11th January, Inspace, University of Edinburgh Rob van Kranenburg Rob van Kranenburg wrote The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing […]
Research Video!
Ok here we go. This is what happens when you agree to do a minute to video during the middle of a festival show:
RepRapUp
On the weekend of the 19th / 20th March, a group of technical midwives assembled the parts of a 3D printing machine that were printed by it’s mother at University College London in February of this year. The build was part of the PayItForward – Altruistic 3D printing project. Basically it means that someone with a […]
Ghosts are back…
The war memorial at Haymarket, Edinburgh remains ‘somewhere’ else. This doesn’t stop the ghosts haunting the site.
Digital Landscape Conference
Delivered paper at the 11th International Conference on Information Technologies in Landscape Architecture, To be honest I remain a cultural / digital geographer in amongst a smart but very focussed community of scientists who tend toward the particular the use of computers to further model the world. Some great stuff, but limited interest in the […]