Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation
Some notes on objects. Object elicitation can provide insights into the functional relationships between people, objects and attitudes, providing a window onto singular or shared understandings ...
Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation
Some notes on objects. Read more...
World / Text
One objection to world-as-narrative (even before we get to what we mean by narrative exactly) is that it leads us to the world-as-text, and that the world clearly cannot be a text, since a text is ...
The Haunter scoping draft
Concept
The Haunter is a poetry walking tour based on the 1912-1913 poems of Thomas Hardy. A specially designed, hand-crafted wooden box and accompanying booklet guide the user around a specific ...
Clearing
Every world is a sort of disclosing, a way of rendering itself intelligible. What is intelligibility but something that can be read into, read between, picked out and gathered together, what can be ...
Building an audio device #3: prototypes, interactions and ...
The box at its most simplest should be able to start, stop and pause audio tracks in a playlist. The code below does this based on a few simple interactions. Read more...
World / Nowhere
The world is a whole one, continuous if uneven. This wholeness can't very well be broken into parts without the kind of effort that pushes the parts out of joint, like cracking a rock to expose the ...
World
The world I mean is the one which allows me to say of myself or others, that we are worldly, or that we are men of the world, or that we know something of the way of the world. It is a world that ...
Eliminate!
The fear lies in the elimination of meaning. There are eliminitavists out there. They stalk the land like stilt-walkers crossing fens, hunting, herding and eradicating fauna, extirpating ...
Inner and Outer
The quantified self is a kind of nightmare. The self is not just what can be measured, transcribed and translated onto other substrates - tables, graphs, algorithms and numbers. Surely we are more ...