In both major readings for next week’s class, the concept of “materiality” looms large. In Lowgren & Stolterman, the first several pages talk about materiality–for instance, the notion that a carpenter knows that wood (his material) has special characteristics or “qualities”: wood can be cut into useful pieces (i.e., it can be shaped) but it…
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If anyone in this class is interested in playing around with Second Life’s building and scripting tools, or if you know what you are doing and need a sandbox, I have some virtual property on which you can do so. If interested, contact Parker Pennell in Second Life (that’s one of my avatars), and she…
G. Smith concludes her Forward to Designing Interactions by saying that interaction design as a field has solved one set of problems, and it now needs to move onto a new set. However, after twenty years of drawing on existing expressive languages [e.g., film, typography, icons], we now need to develop an independent language of…
We will use this blog to explore some concepts and raw, but as yet undeveloped, cool ideas. Be nice!
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