CFP: Algorithmic Practices: Emergent interoperability in the everyday
Algorithmic Practices: Emergent interoperability in the everyday RGS-IBG 2015 Sponsored by: The History and Philosophy of Geography Study Group An ever-increasing proportion of the interactions that we have with digital platforms, apps and devices are mediated according to complex algorithms. Whether it be the real time analytics that draw us into playing a game on […]
NordiCHI Exploring incentivisation in design
Participants: Edinburgh: Chris Speed, Siobhan Magee, Debbie Maxwell, Mark Hartswood Birmingham: Julia Hibbert Dundee: Jayne Wallace UCL: Connie Golsteijn Glasgow: Gregor Doverty This interactive multidisciplinary one-day workshop brought together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the ethical, economic, and material entanglements constituted by incentivisation. Points of departure involved discussions of, on the one hand, designs […]
Design Informatics Seminars
This terms talks at the centre… Download poster here Research Seminars Semester 1 T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House, ECA Thurs 18 Sept 4pm Mark Sorsa-Leslie Location Based Design / Edinburgh Thurs 2 Oct 4pm Cris Simonetti Social Anthropology / Aberdeen Thurs 9 Oct 4pm Clare Petherick Illustration / London Thurs 16 Oct 4pm Hadi Mehrpouya Power […]
“Is Your Marmite Watching You?”
Design Informatics took part in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with the Beltane Public Engagement Network. It showed a new and improved version of Take Me I’m Yours which we have previosuly shown at the Expanded Narative Symposium and at Ubicomp. Is Your Marmite Watching You? explored what it might be like when all of the […]
Producing Data: Practices, Materialities, Values
An interdisciplinary symposium 3rd – 4th September 2014, University of Edinburgh Hosted by: Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Organisers: Chris Speed, Gian Marco Campagnolo, Siobhan Magee and New Media Scotland The term ‘data’ is ubiquitous across our homes and workplaces, academic and mainstream media, political discourses and ethical disputes. Sometimes its […]
CoGet
So a brief summary and documentation of the CoGet workshop at Future Everything in March 2014. Across the connected city small things play a large part in sustaining the flow between people and places. Cups of tea, bottles of water, books, four way plug adaptors, bicycles, computers and many more objects are the ‘things’ that […]
A Rhetorical Approach to Gameful Design
A Rhetorical Approach to Gameful Design Paul Coulton, ImaginationLancaster Thursday 1st May 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Design within Lancaster Universities open and exploratory design-led research lab ImaginationLancaster. My primary activity is embodied as ‘research through design’ and in particular to the design of novel hybrid physical/digital […]
CoGet @ Future Everything
We are experimenting with our social logistics software CoGet at Future Everything in March: http://futureeverything.org/events/coget-things-move-people-around/ Based upon the research from the Sixth Sense Transport project that combined social networking with locative media to support collaborative travel practices, CoGet makes a further leap toward a future in which objects borrow our daily routines to move themselves […]
Casting Time #2
Casting Time #2 Chris Speed, Margaret Stewart, Jules Rawlinson & Jane Macdonald 17th – 28th June 2013, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art Part of the Cast Contemporaries exhibition in the 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival, Casting Time #1 presented a ‘real-time’ digital representation of a live nude model that was transmitted from a painting studio within […]
Drawing With Satellites #3 book
Well that took a while! Following the workshop in February I finally got around to laying up the images and text into the Drawing With Satellites #3 book. Softback available on Blurb: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4290049-drawing-with-satellites-3 and PDF available for free here During a very cold and grey winter, 104 second year architecture students worked in teams to draw the city […]
Evaporation of Things Symposium
Maria Grade Godinho and I have worked up this event: The Evaporation of Things 13th & 14th March 2013, 12:30pm. Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB The Evaporation of Things symposium will explore the increasingly digital interface to biological ‘things’. From the phylogenetic analysis of plants, to the data representation of the human genome […]
Digital Skin #4
Digital Skin produced some rich pickings this year. This is a quick taster of the imagery…(more to follow) and some of the vine documentation that gives a taste of it from the inside plus our Marion Crane tester
Internet of Cars is coming!
The Scotsman ran an article on our Sixth Sense Transport plans for working with the Edinburgh City Council and Central Taxis: http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/tourists-to-be-guided-around-scotland-by-taxi-app-1-2762163 “VISITORS to Scotland will be the first in the world to use technology that guides visitors to tourist attractions by linking their smartphones to the registration numbers on taxis. The innovative project is […]
Drawing with Satellites #3
Fantastic session with the 2nd year ESALA students this morning. Same brief as last time: Using a GPS device respond to the following briefs: i. Work with 2 lines: This requires two groups to collaborate. The collaboration needs to be essential. ii. Relocate an existing, meaningful route. This means that participants should rotate, scale or […]
Internet of Cars UTSG paper
This paper was presented at the Universities Transport Study Group in January of this year (2013). Full paper download here AN INTERNET OF CARS Chris Speed, Duncan Shingleton, Simon Box, Tom Cherrett, Janet Dickinson, Nigel Davies, Sarah Norgate Abstract Despite describing the transport infrastructure as a ‘network’, most road and transport users see little […]
Digital totem pole
http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/project-s-interactive-totem-pole-set-up-with-a-series-of-qr-codes-1-2677697 News from the Scotsman about the installation and launch of the digital totem pole. The pole is part of an AHRC funded Connected Communities project Community Hacking: http://www.communityhacking.org After a long and protracted planning process for getting permissions and a method for putting the Wester Hailes digital totem pole in the ground it’s finally […]
I Am Seeing Things
One week to go until the I Am Seeing Things Symposium and Exhibition The title I Am Seeing Things summons a state in which we are uncertain about what is before our eyes and the trauma of this circumstance. The I Am Seeing Things symposium takes another look at what we mean by the term ‘things’. How do everyday, […]
Critical Collision seminar
Quick photo from this weeks Critical Collision seminar in Inspace. This is was the first occasion that two groups of Masters students have ever met: MArch Disruptive Technologies posits that Architecture is a creative discipline that crosses boundaries, the context in which it operates is in a state of flux. New materials, new processes, new […]
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
A brief reflection on our recent workshops with the National Museums Scotland and the Consultation And Advocacy Promotion Service during the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival… Note: rather than show faces of people that we haven’t got permission from we’ve used coffee cups to represent them! Christine McLean (Community Engagement Manager, National Museums […]
Critical Design :: Is it just designers doing ethnography or does it offer something more for Interaction Design?
Critical Design :: Is it just designers doing ethnography or does it offer something more for Interaction Design? Interact Conference, Lisbon, in 90 minutes!!! Michael Smyth1 (lead author), Chris Speed2 and Martin Brynskov3 1 Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 2 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK 3 Centre for Digital Urban Living, […]
Digital Spaces Highlights
This years Digital Spaces second year elective kicked up some interesting work. First time that the module had ran, and we’re still learning how to explore digital culture through architectural practice that doesn’t end up in renders or banal 3d models… Marcus The simple intervention of cementing a mobile phone into a wall in Edinburgh […]
Geco Health Workshop
One of the mobs from the #gecohealth day, mapping health in the city using comob net:
RememberUs and Possessions
Quick post on Future Everything gig. Jane, Mike and I set up the memory shed in the Oxfam Emporium, Oldham Street, Manchester on Tuesday. We’ve been collecting memories on to surrogate objects so that the things people buy in the Vintage shop along the street are ‘possessed’ by other peoples memories! Plus gave my talk […]
Curiosity Shop
The TOTeM crew have been very busy since the launch of the Oxfam Curiosity Shop in Selfridges, London. Celebrities connected to Anne Lennox’s Circle group led the charge in donating their good for auction and for sale in the Curiosity Shop that runs from the 1st to the 10th of April. The ‘Curiosity Reader’ designed […]