http://www.thisplacement.com Project weblog Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:12:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.thisplacement.com/2008/04/16/unge-talenter-2008/ Yesterday I delivered the diploma. I will do a writeup when I have regenerated my mana. Thanks to all how have been helping me. http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/12/18/done/ 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. http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/12/06/daily-research/ I´m building an "Interruptive camera" as a descriptive device. It´s just a dummy: a hacked phone inside a neat wooden shell. I hope it will help with describing some aspects of the concepts. It´s also a nice task to have lying around now that I have to write all day. http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/11/30/interruptive-camera/ 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. http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/11/27/workshop-dash/ 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 ... http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/11/12/bowl-tokene-based-media-for-children-at-dux-2007/ 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 ... http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/11/04/up-and-away/ Spending a day in the wood workshop is always quite refreshing. The first batch of proper probes is almost done and will be in action while I´m at DUX. http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/11/02/building-probes/ 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 ... http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/10/31/dux-2007/ The diploma-work is progressing. Most weeks consist of electronics, programming, building, a little layout, writing and sorting out what I'm actually doing. Today I've been working on a front-end mock-up of the webservice side of the project (and been wrestling with google-maps: which are ubiquitous but not very good!) http://www.thisplacement.com/2007/10/18/as-the-crow-flies/