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Static! was the first research program within energy and design that the Interactive Institute went through with. The project was started in 2004 and launched energy as a design material, an idea that grew from the fact that ”electricity is often perceived as abstract – it is hard to grasp the amount of consequences of electricity consumed at any given time or through any particular product”, as it says in the introduction to the new book Static! Designing for energy awareness from Arvinius publishers.
As the examples in the book shows Static! was a sprawling program, using theories from critical design traditions, sustainable design, persuasive design as well as people centred and the aesthetics of materials, and when it came to design disciplines it was just as wide and used industrial design, interior design, textile design among others. It was a project where every idea was tested. Read the rest of this entry »
There are many ways that can lead to the same conclusion. Hacking is a culture not at all well known to me other than through media. The theory of hacking is Otto von Busch’s tool to pick the production and design apart and put them together again in new and unexpected ways.
His Doctoral thesis ”Fashion-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design” is possible to read in many different ways and browse through parts and look thoroughly at others and to me the most inspirational part is where he tests his theories in the studies, most well known being the hack at Dale shoe factory.
