On Friday Jørn and I are going to Berlin to attend the Cognitive Cities Conference. We came across the event through Adam Greenfield, and we are very exited about the line-up (especially Warren Ellis). Our current design and research projects are specifically about design, technology and city life, and we have been given the chance [...]
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About reading ‘As It Is To-Day’
This morning I have been reading the first issue of a new newspaper entitled ‘As It Is To-Day. Issue 1. London Special’ put together by Chris Heathcote and printed by Newspaper Club. It is a fine collection of old text and advertisements that concern city life in London a long time ago. These texts where [...]
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Overdue update.
There are two things I would like to mention: 1. For the last year I have been teaching interactiondesign at AHO and worked for the design/research project Touch. This is brilliant and I will be working for Touch until September. 2. Last year I also got my PhD proposal accepted at AHO. I will start [...]
Adventures in Urban Computing
This is a write-up of my diploma project in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project is entitled ‘Adventures in Urban Computing’ and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report. This diploma project is an expedition into urban computing, an emerging multi-disciplinary [...]
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Unge Talenter 2008
The Bowl/Skål project is exhibited at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DogA) in Oslo for the next month. Bowl are part of the Unge Talenter 2008 (Young Talent 2008) exhibition that runs until 27 April 2008. As part of my work on Touch I also made new electronic insides for Sara Johansson’s toydog [...]
Daily research
I´ve just been out taking scenario-photos of the final Interruptor (camera) prototype. The battery-life is bad and its so shiny that its difficult to take pictures of. Apart from this its an ok experience prototype. Its main function in the diploma is as concept illustration.
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Workshop / Dash
I´m in the final phase of my diploma and had the last “mycity” drawing/mapping workshop today. We mapped out nodes, routes, zones, gems, shadows, dragons and rainbows… And located the photos and notes from the interruptive notebooks. Thanks to Una, Ingeborg and Jørn.
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“Bowl: tokene based media for children” at DUX 2007
I have just returned from DUX 2007 where I presented the paper “Bowl: token based media for children” written by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and myself. The DUX conference was an interesting context for presenting this project and I got nice feedback and had inspiring discussions. Here´s a short presentation of the project, the paper [...]
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Up and away
With a little help from Jørn I managed to finish the first three working probes before I left for DUX. It´s three interruptive notebooks. You turn it on when you go outdoors, put it in your pocket and it will interrupt you at random intervals. When the notebooks calls for your attention (by vibrating) you [...]
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DUX 2007
This weekend I´m off to Chicago to attend DUX 2007. I will be presenting the paper “Bowl: token based media for children” as part of the “Niche Experiences”-panel. Timo Arnall and I have written this paper based on a project developed for the Touch project by Timo, Jørn Knutsen and myself.
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