Two talks in Oslo

A guest lecture at AHO kindly organized by Timo Arnall.

Play, Craft and Digital Life: Emerging Directions in Professional Design
12.10.2006, 1:00-2:00pm, Oslo School of Architecture and Design

This presentation discusses future directions in professional design by challenging the current conceptions of production and consumption. The main indication is that organisations that wish to innovate and foster creativity need to conceive products that exist simultaneously both in physical and online form, make designers play with users, and support crafting and voluntary development outside businesses.

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A presentation with Matt Biddulph at NordiCHI Near Field Interaction workshop organized by Timo Arnall, Julian Bleecker, and Nicolas Nova.

Designing Social Affordances for Physical Objects
14.10.2006, Oslo School of Architecture and Design

This presentation focuses on annotating physical objects with contextual information from the viewpoints of affordance theory (Gibson 1979) and practical design of “Internet middleware”. Our starting point is the notion that linking user-generated meanings to everyday objects equips physical artifacts with new types of affordances, which we call here as social affordances (Kreijns &Kirschner 2001). These social affordances differ from the notion of perceived physical affordances (Norman 1988) in three essential aspects. First, instead of functional, their nature is principally social/socializing (Adler 2001). Second, instead of being defined by designers, social affordances are primarily defined by users. Third, unlike physical affordances, social affordances are historically accumulative; the more people annotate the same object, the richer its affordances become.

Comments

[Angela]

Hi Ulla-Maaria

If possible, could you point me in the direction of any slides/handouts/audio from this event? Possible links to my research.

Thank you

[Ulla Engeström]

Hi Angela, which one were you most interested?

[Kevin Henry]

Trying to reach Ulla-Maaria about an exhibition devoted to Do-It-Yourself culture in Chicago. I cannot find an email address for you. We are interested in talking with you.

[Ulla-Maaria]

Hi Kevin, my email is on the about page, or alternatively you can use ulla [ at ] hobbyprincess [ dot ] com.

[Angela]

Sorry this took so long...the second one if you can still help. I have an opportunity to embed some of these ideas in a social project/my research this year, so I am keen to do some more reading. Thank you.