Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Mar 2, 2013 – Jun 10, 2013
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Jun 10, 2013
For people interested in design fictions, the latest issue of Digital Creativity is a special issue about design fiction. It features papers by people like James Auger or Andrew Morrison, Ragnhild Tronstad and Einar Sneve Martinussen. As proposed by the editor of this issue, Derek Hales, in his introduction entitled…
Nicolas Nova
SyndicatedDesignFiction
May 10, 2013
An idiomatic miss here with this little, darling, silly little camera. First read says to me that crank+camera equals either, like..advance-the-image or, like..crank-the-moving-film through.
Design for ImplicationsInterfaceThe Object
Apr 23, 2013
After answering the questions of architects in Mosaic, I have recently responded to an interview for the monthly periodical of the Spanish geographer association. The result of the discussion is now online: La leyenda del mapa mudo – Abril 2013
MethodologyMy ProjectsSyndicated
Apr 23, 2013
I have recently contributed to the April edition of Ethnography Matters on Ethnomining and the combination of qualitative & quantitative data. My story describes the overall process of our work with sensor data at the Louvre Museum in Paris. I particularly focus on the importance of mixed-methods when its comes to g…
MethodologySyndicated
Apr 23, 2013
Quick update: “Curious Rituals: gestural interactions in the digital everyday”, the book and our short film, was shown few weeks ago in the Logotel’s (In)visible Design – 100 Stories from the Future and Beyond, an exhibition for Milano Design Week 2013. Thanks again Stefano Mattei and Francesca Rizzo!
Nicolas Nova
NewsSyndicated
Apr 12, 2013
An interesting quote seen in this NYT article I saw today:
Nicolas Nova
Syndicatedart
Mar 31, 2013
I just realized this the tenth year of Pasta and Vinegar! What started as a PhD student notepad is still around. There’s less blogging than it used to be but I still intend to keep this blog running. Weak signals and links are generally posted on beta knowledge, but P&V will still feature longer posts, slide decks a…
Nicolas Nova
NewsSyndicated
Mar 05, 2013
Brain-computer interactions is a pet topic I investigate on the side for quite some time; actually since I was an undegrad in Cognitive Sciences back fifteen years ago. In the last ten years, we saw an interesting evolution in terms of hardware possibilities with the advent of headcaps… this led to a novel situation…
Nicolas Nova
brainSyndicated
Mar 02, 2013
Nick and I came back again to the Emerge 2013 event at Arizona State University to workshop an issue of “Green Pages”, the Laboratory’s ‘Quarterly Design & Technology Fiction Almanac.’
Advancing DesignApproaches to DesignDesign as StrategyDesign FictionDesign for Implications