Camilo Anabalón

Revista Chilena de Diseño » Tres cosas que se deberían saber antes de recibirse de diseñador

2012-01-26T03:37:00.000-08:00

Finally after several month of delay my article was published on RChD (in spanish)

Revista Chilena de Diseño » Tres cosas que se deberían saber antes de recibirse de diseñador

The personal mobility turning point

2011-11-08T06:40:00.000-08:00

This video is a quite interesting trip through the personal mobility history focused on describing how we found ourselves in the turning point of this industry. The arguments for this claim are the upcoming electrical technologies and material that are now being introduce in the develop of personal mobility devices, the longer performance of electrical batteries and the reduction of their sizes as well as the incorporation of high sensitive capabilities have opened broadly the spectrum of possibilities for imagining and realize new ways of interacting with the vehicles, new uses for them and, the most relevant issue, new categories of vehicles. Since the foundation of this industry both the morphology and the configuration of personal mobility vehicles has remain pretty much the same until recently devices like the SEGWAY and the Honda's U3-X (the main character of this video) have overlook the the idea that a personal vehicle has to be a car or a bike or, if you are an eccentric driver, a tricycle to bring a new category of self-balancing vehicles, and altogether opening a hole new branch in the mobility industry.

The proliferation of new devices in this area has already begun, and we can count now with transitional hybrids like one-wheeled motorcycles or Segway like devices for off road but the disruption of personal mobility it is far from being exhausted and I guess we will witness the arise of other new categories on which the power storage technology and the active sensitive capacity as well as the new ways of human vehicle interaction will have a main role.

From the Design point of view, being involved in this turning point means a bit more than just to make these new devices more aesthetically appealing or user friendly; it means also to imagine, research and prototype new ways to communicate the human will to an electromechanical device so the relationship between them can become more intuitive and responsive.

That's it for now, by the way, this video is produced by Gizmag and you can read the hole article here.

Enjoy

Work vs. Play

2011-10-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

Yet another talk about how IDEO work. This time related to the value of Play at work, with good examples of how a relaxed but focused environment where failure is tolerated can drive design teams to a successful delivery of solutions in complex situations.

RIP: A Remix Manifesto (or the left side of the rights)

2011-08-23T11:23:00.000-07:00

This is a documentary about how we choose to experience culture. It is a tricky issue because we can either say that is a consumer good and feel free to consume it or we can just take it and use it as we please. the thing is, if we call it a consumer good means that is a product being offer to us, the one we trade so we earn the right to use its inscripted functions (the functions intended by the creator of that cultural good) until its life cycle, a close cycle, is over. by the other hand if is available to be taken and use, so it is public domain, means that it has an open life cycle and with this comes two different implications. first, the trade is open, which means that that cultural good is traded not anymore between the creator -or the mediator-and and individual, but the social space (the community within the scope culturally influenced by that ''good''). Second, the functions of the good itself are open; this means that in this case not only the intended functions are available but also any function that the good, by its properties, allows and also the functions that the user of the good can imagine.

All this becomes meaningful when we understand that one of the functions of any cultural good is to be a building brick for whatever comes next. Every cultural object, in the broader sense of the word, is a functional part of the future of that culture. This movie-manifesto is about what happens when we overprotect the cultural goods on which the innovation, which enriches the future, is fed.

Low tech v/s high tech

2011-07-31T09:18:00.000-07:00

As Wade Davis says, ancient wisdom really matters in the modern world, technological wisdom present itself in every culture in different ways to solve local problems, and in the traditional way, with local materials and skills. Ancient technologies solve problems based on locally available materials processed through simple or low skills techniques and usually also with low secondary or post process wastes. Today’s obsession with high tech solutions is leading us to an overexploitation of resources and dependence on a global supply chain. but is even a deeper difference between high and low tech as Professor Kai Simons explain in this video, high tech require more specific and less available materials which are running out fast increasing the price and the availability of solutions based on high tech. If we keep relying in high tech and don't focus soon on start producing local low-tech solutions there is a danger that this issue turn from a technological problem into a political one with the well known characteristic of the political approach when it comes to deal with precious resources.

''Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain'' C.G.Jung

2011-04-21T09:23:00.000-07:00

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Edwin Himself is Edwin Negado » 10 lessons for young designers. By John C Jay of Wieden+Kennedy

2011-02-22T15:57:00.000-08:00

Some thing is better put them just as they come, so here it goes.

1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do. 2: Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort. 3: Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral. 4: Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking is not enough. 5: Travel as much as you can. It is a humbling and inspiring experience to learn just how much you don’t know. 6: Being original is still king, especially in this tech-driven, group-grope world. 7: Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them. 8: Instinct and intuition are all-powerful. Learn to trust them. 9: The Golden Rule actually works. Do good. 10: If all else fails, No. 2 is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.

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Edwin Himself is Edwin Negado » 10 lessons for young designers. By John C Jay of Wieden+Kennedy

the creators project: Stefan Sagmeister

2011-02-20T15:08:00.000-08:00

The Creators Project its an initiative that put together people whose work is connected with the use of new media in their creative processes and/or products. It's a really interesting sample of works and visions from different areas of the creative practice such as Design, Music, Film and Art just for name a few, but also is a tasteful gathering of different culture flavors that show us the singularities of every culture in the approach to creative work.
Between the featured personalities are big names like Spike Jones, MOS Architects, Peaches, and Phoenix, but my personal selection is one of my favorites graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, who is also a big fish, but never the less, always fun.

By the way, check:http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/

James Dyson:Design what it should be

2011-02-07T10:01:00.000-08:00

James Dyson, founder of Dyson corporation and responsible for the world famous machine looking vacuum cleaners, share his achievements and inspirations in a relaxed show-and-tell talk called ''the art of engineering'' at MIT. Dyson, graduated from the Royal College of Art, tell the story of how he went into engineering and how important it is not to be only a Designer or a Engineer, but to be a Designer/Engineer, and inventor as he said, and the relevance to make mistakes: ''...I think the schools got all wrong, they should be giving good grades to the ones that makes mistakes and learn from them.'' something that himself take to the limit, for his first cyclone vacuum cleaner he spend almost 5 years and did 5,126 prototypes!

The British inventor also criticized the definition of Design as a marketing tool arguing a more meaningful and systemic view that he inherit from one of his heroes, Buckminster Fuller, from whom also borrow the beautiful advice: ''...you see what needs to be done and do it.''

At he end of the talk, in Q&A, he discuss how he manage the creative processes within his organization and how he see the future regarding the rising of the new Asian productive power. Surely an invigorating example of how to make you way through with a huge accent on innovation.

The hard side of Opensource

2011-02-05T11:20:00.001-08:00

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

Opensource is probably the most philosophically relevant idea coming from the computer sciences. Actually the idea of sharing knowledge it's, of course, not new but it the age on which patent and rights have drag the technical knowledge to a exclusive corporate corner sharing information about how things work it's a revolutionary endeavor. In a good metaphor expressed in this documentary the Opensource is compared with Gutenberg's movable type printer. Before Gutenberg the production of books were in hands of a few, mostly cleric,that controlled what could be read, hence what could be know, after him the amount and more important the variety of books explode given the people the chance of build themselves for themselves a body of knowledge to understand the world. Gutenberg's printer was a very important piece of Open hardware that boost society into a new direction.

Today we are confronting a similar scenario. We are surrounding by technological devices like cellphones, computers, consoles, mp-players, etc. That we barely know how to use and we are even less inform about how they actually works. This disinformation has huge consecuenses in a world on which the number of this kind of devices may be even bigger than the actual population. Think on what is lost every time that a computer or a cellphone goes to the trash, maybe the system as a whole doesn't work but, what about all those little parts that give life to that cellphone or that computer? what if we can do something with those parts? what if we can play and tinker with that old low resolution cellphone camera or that screen? what about the spinning wheel of that broken mouse or the optics of that old digital camera? the possibilities are amazingly wide. For doing that we need knowledge and tools, but as we know big part of the knowledge comes from playing with the tools and here is where Arduino comes into scene. this piece of very cheap and non-exclusive piece of hardware is the tool which allow us to start connecting all those little parts and give them a purpose, whatever this purpose would be. Here is the potential of this little device that have been revolutionizing the digital world, and the revolution consist on materialize the digital world itself for sake of fun, what purpose beautiful and productive than that.

Following fun and with the help of Opensource tools as Arduino and Processing amazing things have come to life like 3d printers that cost little more than a thousand dollars or new music instrument and a lot of new robots. Opensource tools like Arduino bring down the technical threshold of electronic devices world to a level that allow not specialized people to start to interact in a expressive and creative way with it, and the best part... in a social way too, because is not about what I can do and how I can make profit out of that (not only at least) but what We can do and how we take this thing into the next level.

Opensource means sharing knowledge, and sharing knowledge means better and faster understanding and develop of communities. It may not be new but as a movement based on the technologies that are changing the face of our daily living surely, is a philosophy to adopt.

Disruptive innovation techniques: DeBono's last child

2011-01-21T10:13:00.000-08:00

Edward De Bono in his ''Lateral thinking'' said, ''the whole purpose of lateral thinking is to restructure the mind patterns, to disrupt them, to be able to see the things in a different way''. When I watched this presentation it gave me the idea of being reading a really good summary of De Bono's book. Here Luke Williams apply the notion of disruptiveness to three main areas: strategies, thinking and expectations and explain how the introduction of this concept can leverage innovation, hence success, in your company.

This talk is full with real business cases of Frog design (where the speaker is a fellow) and other business leader that relate this theoretical process with real successful innovations. One thing that I personally found really interesting is that the organizational processes to innovate are shifting their focus from efficiency and system theory to a more anthropological area, actually they are going into the psychology of the people involve in these processes. What DeBono wrote thinking in the improvement of the creative performance of individuals now is been taken as a way to improve organizational performance on innovation, in other words, how we can make innovation part of our organization process? or how we can build an organization centered on innovation? well...improving the creative performance of each person involved in the organization. But it is still a gap of going from the individual to the organizational level, and it is how we translate an mind process in a collective process. Again De Bono give us a hand in his book the "Six thinking hats'', but even when he manage to describe how to deal with the collective addressing of problem there is still an environmental issues to solve in order to empowered the creative processes in collective work settings, but that's another post.

For now it's good to enjoy a very dynamic talk, full of nice examples, of how to address the innovation through disruptiveness, a concept cast almost forty years ago that still remain fresh.

For more information of the speaker go here

and for his book in disrupt innovation go here

At a Loss for Words: Modern Lessons From a Lost Language

2010-12-14T16:58:00.000-08:00

At a Loss for Words: Modern Lessons From a Lost Language

A new old Peruvian language discovered.

''Magdalena document shows
translations for numbers from Spanish to a lost language. ''

Something that really worth to know:

'' We estimate that, in most world regions, about 90% of the languages may be replaced by dominant languages by the end of the 21st century.''

Challenges of future design

2010-12-12T08:29:00.000-08:00

In this video Hamilton Smith, part of the team that develop the first synthetic cell, talk with Noy Bassik about building machines in the scale of a cell. Two basic ideas are discuss in this conversation, the first one coming from Smith is to build living machines through the alteration of a already existing organism. This mean build a purpose-full device out of the essential biological parts, DNA. In the other side is the vision of Bassik that pursuit the develop of machines that interact with the chemical world of biology. What he's doing is engineer devices that can be controlled by chemical reactions fulfill a purpose. The purpose of this machines is now in the level of mechanical effects but -as they discuss- is projected to be a lot more than that, a complete factory that can sense and react producing and delivering substances needed by the organism.

Now in the eye of a Designer this may look really far away from our expertise area but there is some hints that can give us a second look. First the formal level, the technique worked by

Bassik is inspire in Origami and from this ancient art the idea of build volume out of a flat surface is drawn to research with the out coming of relevant insights to control materials through shape. This imply that formal thinking is needed in the conception of this new kind of machines and designer at above all formal thinkers. Another component of the thinking process of Design can take us into a deeper level, this is the behavioral awareness. Is well know that in Design practice the biggest tool is Observation, observation of people and their conducts, of systems and their components and relations between them, of causes and effects, actually of whatever is involved in the studied situation. This tool in combination with the problem solving thinking of engineers brings about comprehensive solutions that almost in every field of the building-things human endeavor has drive innovation. With the develop of techniques that enables to build thing in the micro scale we are entering in a new stage of technology and the products of this new phase will progressively increase in complexity, when this start to happen it will be necessary the knowledge and the thinking on how the outcome of the process of this machines will affect the whole system, in simpler words, how the behavior of this devices will cause effects on the other component of the system, as the non-micro scale devices affect us and the environment today.

Some of this worries have already take in hands of designers as in Nanotopia or in Victimless leather presented mainly as Art projects but in the way that this technologies star to permeate more deeply our cultures and our daily life the need for a technical and reflective presence of design will be more critical. So, maybe it's time to aim for the future and involve Design in the next technological revolution, design at micro scale.

The future of e-paper: the trash can?

2010-11-24T07:15:00.000-08:00

A new post on innovation-report inform about a new ''break through'' on material sciences coming from the University of Cincinnati, a Disposable e-paper. Actually from the scientific side it's really a break through. A paper based technology that enables to display information, in different ways including video, as the screens are doing it today but with the difference that would be flexible and low cost; todays standard technology (as kindle and ipad) relays on complex circuitry printed on glass that's expensive and of course rigid.

Until now everything it's OK but what catch my attention was the link between low-cost and disposability. The scientist claim that this technology would be so affordable that at the end of the day or the week you can just throw it to the garbage can. My worries are why we attached the value of and object, and in this case a really awesome product of Technic, just to its monetary value. In other words, why because is cheap it's OK to throw it to the garbage! It's not so that we cannot see value in other things other that money like functionality, convenience or even human effort (of developing such device) or the notion that maybe the intrinsic value that having something like that in our possession maybe higher that let it go to the property (and personal preoccupation and involvement free) space of the trash stream.

Cheap cannot be a synonym of disposability. Affordability cannot be a synonym of bad quality. And the garbage can cannot be the goal for technology development nor the end point of the value chain.

The report claims this technology maybe available in the market three to five years from now, we can only expect that until then our ways to see this issues change a little bit.

via: Innovations report

Image: Flickr/Kranky

2010-11-10T07:11:00.000-08:00

Sometimes we forget that the environmental issue is not just technological, political and social, but also cultural. Art is one of the stronger cultural tool that we have because its critical sensibility. Some Art connect with us through beautiful aesthetics and other Arts through critical reflexions, and some really good art combine both ways (and other ways too) in multilayer artistics representations. I think this is the case of this animation on wich a very critical view is presented in a delightful visual and sounding experience that tells us not about what is happening but what is supposed to happend with our sensibility regarding the energetical issue. The windmill farmer of Joaquin Baldwin, is talking about the involvement of our felling and hopes in the enviromental issue, saying when we manage to feel deep sandness instead of just neglect what's happening in our sorrounding we'll achieve the point of inner motivation to get involve ourselves in processes of change and not just be simple spectators of what others do. In my own personal way to see it, it's not just a beautiful animation but a calling to feel and act.

Design: e²

2010-10-27T08:40:00.001-07:00

This is a series from the PBS that talk about the biggest energy consumers and polluters devices made by man. The buildings. As it is claim in the opening of every one of the six episodes from the first season now available in the PBS You Tube channel, buildings consume 40% of all energy resources and emit 50% of all green-house gases.

The e² stands for: ''the Economies of being Environmentally conscious'' and they analyze which kind of approaches are been taking in the world of architecture and construction business to diminish the impact of our build environment in the ecosystem, and how we raise awareness about the relevance of this area in the climate change and in the sustainable future.

The analysis goes from the high- tech construction materials and processes to the social issues attached to the green movement and show projects and experiences from U.S.A, Mexico, China and Europe.

The episodes are:

1.- The green apple

2.- Green for all

3.- The green machine

4.- Gray to green

5.- China: from red to green?

6.- Deeper shade of green

25:45 min, each

World quality innovation alliance: Fraunhofer Institute in Chile

2010-10-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

Chile will have the first research center in South America of one of the most innovative research institutions in the world, The Fraunhofer Institut. The largest research institute in Europe is focused on transforming scientific expertise into applications of practical utility. Funded in part by public grants and mostly by privates contracts the Fraunhofer institute brings to Chile a new model of research that institutionalize the cooperation between the industry and the fundamental research institutions as the universities. The aim of this institute is to develop product starting from basic science all the way to commercial maturity, it's the link between invention and commercialization, what we can say is an innovation machine.

The research center projected in Chile will address the System Biotechnology and will work in agriculture, aquaculture and sustainable use of natural resources, boosting up big part of our raw material economy. Some of the partners in this alliance are Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad de Talca and Fundacíon Chile; and it is cofounded by INNOVAchile.

Maybe is too much to ask but now that we have cover the agriculture and aquaculture it may be good to start thinking on address forestry and minery, and how we can jump into develop and commercialization products in this areas to give our resources more value and leave behind the raw material economy.

More information click here

Designer! which kind? ....mm...Designer

2010-10-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

Design is a common noun for a big amount of different occupations. As people who have a degree on design sometimes we feel a rather disappointed with common notion of Design that able to almost everybody to become a designer just by personal statement, and because of this we usually try to separate ourselves from the crowd saying that we are Industrial, Graphic, Product, Information, Interaction, Car, Yacht, Fashion, Furniture, Interior, Stage, Green, Red, Blue or else Designer; we are good on that.

In contrast with this recently a group of Design researchers has publish a paper on Design Issues that try to find common places in diverse disciplines of the design though a very simple methodology, conversation. They realize a series of workshops with a handfull of expert Designers (more than 10 years of practice) from different fields. From the fashion design to jet engine design and from furniture design to TV documentary. The first thing they found was that, although with some nuances, all the Designers talk the same language. When an engine Designer was put into conversation with a graphic one the only idea that needed an explanation was ''thumbnail'' and it was quickly grasped... by the engine designer. So language, I mean technical language, even through heavy specialization is a common tool.

Other interesting finding of the study was that we relate the idea of good design mainly with the acceptance and recognition coming from our peers, and only then with the user acceptance, sintitutional recognition or commercial success.

One big resemblance in all the stories told by the designers is the creative relationship with the material. Great deal of the time expended in the projects and the actual search -and find- of solutions goes through the hands and the direct contact with the material. Though the ''conversations'' with the material can be more or less physically attended, the direct experience and experimentation seems to be extremely relevant. In this way the lamp designer play with the glass to find out new shapes, properties and effects that can be use in the design as the engine designer, as well as the graphic one, includes the properties and qualities of the steel or the typography as constrains and capabilities that drives de design process.

The research unveils that in the communication area the main tool is by far the Sketching. Even when the computer techniques allow us to render projects more accurately (and more convincingly for the clients) than the hand, the sketching still prevail when it comes to capture and develop ideas.

The study also goes through the relationship with the final user and the big amount of energy spent in every design project on managing the uncertainty of collaborations with people and policies and as a conclusion stress the wide range of commonalities that bring designers together rather than split them around different technical, cultural and business context; and how much we need tools that make us aware of this and foster respect across the design world.

Even though this research found some really important insight of the design praxis, there are still some questions that should be address in order to bring about information on how designers are connected to each other further than the common places of the practice, which can also be found in others disciplines. We need to ask us about, how designers work out the difficult relationship between creation of new things (or stuffs as R.Gold said) and the renovation of the already existent things? Also, which are (if there are) the commonalities of our generative process in contrast with other creative areas? Learn about this can drive us to a more deep understanding of our discipline and its practical values.

Biomimética aplicada al desarrollo de modelos de negocios

2010-09-10T07:33:00.000-07:00

Gunter Pauli on Biomimetism (Lift France 09, EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo.

En este blog la verdad creo que nunca he publicado nada acerca de negocios, mas bien esta dedicado a temas de diseño, tecnología, ciencia y una que otra disvariación acerca de como desarrollamos y trabajamos en base a procesos creativos. Pero aunque a veces no nos guste el negocio es una actividad transversal a casi todas las otras.

En el diseño el negocio...bueno casi se podría decir que el diseño es negocio. Desde el diseño como la venerable herramienta de marketing, que permite a las compañias dar una expresión formal, percibible, disfrutable y por que no deseable a los idolatrados estudios de mercado, hasta el diseño de debate plantea conceptos radicales y exploraciones filosóficas y éticas que nos llevan a cuestionarnos importantes elementos de nuestra cultura y sociedad y aunque por lo general no llegan a ser consumidos por las masas, llegan a ser apreciados por las masas en los museos los cuales pagan grandes sumas de dinero por estos objetos y así permiten a seguir generando dinero y nuevos debates con nuevos objetos, es decir continuar con el negocio.

En cuanto a la Tecnología se podría decir que desde sus inicios ha sido parte de la estructura fundamental de el negocio. Cada avance tecnológico implica primero un esfuerzo por desarrollarlo, lo que conlleva -sino una industria- un negocio en sí, pero además producto de la innovación tecnológica (desde la incremental hasta la profundamente disruptiva) se abren nuevos espacios ya sea para profundizar un negocio ya existente o para generar nuevos negocios o incluso nuevas industrias.

Cuando se trata de Ciencia el negocio permite generar y suplir la infraestructura necesaria para desarrollar el trabajo científico. Y el resultado de ese trabajo científico, el nuevo conocimiento, sustenta el negocio de su divulgación, y por cierto los negocios que se surten de ese conocimiento como el desarrollo tecnológico.

¿Pero por que tratar de encontrar el negocio en todas estas áreas cuando el objetivo de este blog nunca han sido los negocios? Y es aquí donde el vídeo posteado se justifica. De hace tiempo ya es de mi interés la idea de estudiar y aplicar los conceptos extraídos de la naturaleza en los diversos campos del conocimiento humano, la biomimética. Y en función de eso me he dejado asombrar por como la ciencia y sus nuevas técnicas nos permiten conocer los secretos microscopios de las estructuras naturales o por la tecnología cada ves se acerca mas a la eficiencia en materiales y recursos del modelo natural y por como el diseño se nutre de la inteligencia geométrica de los organismos vivos para desarrollar nuevos elementos de nuestro mundo material. Pero hasta el día de hoy jamas me había topado con la idea -bastante lógica por lo demás- de que nuestro ecosistema podría enseñarnos como estructurar una metodología para llevar a cabo algo tan propiamente humano como el negocio. Hasta hoy hemos aprendido de las estructuras de lo más pequeño y lo más grande de nuestro universo, desde las partículas elementales que componen la masa hasta los procesos siderales que dan forma al universo. Pero resulta ser que hemos pasado en alto el equilibrio base que da sustento a todos esos procesos. Podemos saber como las plantas son capaces de levantar agua hasta más de 100 metros sin la necesidad de poderosas bombas de succión pero si no sabemos por que han decidido acarrearla tan arriba y cual es la función sistémica dentro de su entorno perdemos las nociones que nos permitirían aplicar de manera coherente ese conocimiento. En una ciudad donde viven millones de personas la cantidad de desperdicio producido puede llegar a ocupar un volumen peligrosamente cercano al de la ciudad misma, en un bosque o selva donde la cantidad de habitantes -seres vivos- puede ser significativamente superior al de una ciudad los desperdicios simplemente no existen. El producto de cada proceso es alimento del siguiente.

En el sobre gerrificado lenguaje de los negocios siempre se ha de contar con ''daños colaterales'' que simplemente no entran en la ecuación. Así el fantástico negocio del biodiesel por ejemplo a costado cientos y cientos de hectáreas en el amazonas para plantar soya para hacer combustible. Pero que pasaría si en vez de buscar ser ''el mas fuerte'' en los negocios "bioficaramos" su lenguaje para hacerlo mas equilibrado, para balancear la cadena de suministros con la de desperdicios. Si en vez de pensar del todo en la etapa como desperdicio de la vida útil de los objetos habláramos de su segundo estado como suministro. En el bosque el cuerpo del animal muerto es suministro del los demás vivos y del suelo donde cae.

Esta es la impresión que me deja Gunter Paulin en esta charla, en este mundo tenemos la capacidad para convertir casi todo en objeto de negocio, quizás sea tiempo de convertir el negocio en parte de nuestro mundo.

Paper towels for oil spills: MIT researchers unveil autonomous oil-absorbing robot

2010-09-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

MIT researchers unveil autonomous oil-absorbing robot

from the monkey to the homoEmpathicus

2010-07-14T08:39:00.000-07:00

Some weeks ago i came across with the knowledge that we posses some neurons call mirror system-or mirror neurons- wich give us the ability to feel what others are felling, just by see them or by hear them. Well this system is the base of the empathy, but empathy may be the base of another big thing...Society perhaps? but how study empathy can give us insights of how society evolve? -here it gets really good- because studying empathy we can study the history of human social counsiousness or to whom we think -and fell- we are related to. From the blood ties, passing through religion to Nations states and going further, Jeremy Rifkin explain the ideas coming from his six years research on this topic. This video extract, and illustrate in the very clear way of CongnitiveMedia, a part of a talk given by the autor on which he refers to the discovery of the mirror system and how that new insight open a new path for understand history, pass and future.

The Plenitude of Rich Gold

2010-05-14T10:28:00.001-07:00

Some weeks ago I went in a local bookstore just to kill some time , and after take a quick look into the shelves a small green spine cath my attention in the design theorie area (after that I notice that theorie books even when it comes to design, are usually graphically bored). I take it from the shelf and just there another two things call my interest. First, all the cover was illustrated with doodles that looks like made by a school kid -a thing that I found clever in a bookshelf full of elaborated computer renderings- very warm and very beautiful. The second thing was ''foreword by John Maeda'' writen under the autors name, Rich Gold. Then when I went into the book, to my surprise I didn't found any pictures, any renders, any oversimplify diagrams, nothing but words..and CARTOONS! yes cartoons. Every chapter or section starts with a cartoon, and also every main idea on the book is stressed with a cartoon. There is a cartoon to explain the overstuffed enviroment in wich we live that Gold calls ''the plenitude'', there is also a cartoon that show clearly the four disciplines (and professions pursuit by the autor) that have the responsability of around 97% of the plenitude, there is a cartoons to explain the seven path of innovation, the five problems of the Plenitude and the seven solutions for that; and even for explain how the Plenitude of ones is based in the poverty of others.

After been exposed to that amount of quality information two thoughts came to my mind, cartoons rules and I have to reed this book.

The book is about thing, or better say Stuff. What it is, from where it comes, where it goes, how we can deal with it and why we need to be sorrounded by this thing call ''the plenitude'' (after write this post I'm not sure anymore if this book it's really about ''stuff'')

The Plenitude, Creativity, Innovation and Making Stuff

autor: Rich Gold (foreword by John Maeda)

pages:111

the MIT press

Building organs block by block

2010-05-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

Building organs block by block
Analogy can go a little bit further than a create a juicer looking like a tin-tin spaceship, and a little bit useful too.
When everybody is thinking in cell printers to do 3D tissues structures -with everybody I don't mean you, me or the next door neighbour, but the biotechnology research community- a guy came with the idea of making bricks out of cells, like legos! and then he call this technique with the awesome name of ''micromasonry''. With this new concept Javier Gomez Fernandez (who has to be someones neighbour)put in every lab the the chance to build this kind of structures without depend on advance motion control technology. Big point for creative thinking in science.

EN-V: no more cars but movable-containers-points of a mobilitynet

2010-05-09T08:09:00.000-07:00

the emotion of invention

2010-04-11T10:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dean_kamen_the_emotion_behind_invention.html

Spain Tower of power, the solar power (by CNN)

2010-03-18T09:27:00.000-07:00

A quick review on the large thermo-solar power plant in Spain. And also a comparision between thermo-solar power generation and photo voltaic harvesting.

Augmenting Reality | Product Design and Development

2010-03-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

this is a sample of the features in the next generation cars, where Augmented reality it's included as a part of driving experienced

Augmenting Reality | Product Design and Development

What we can lean from what we have forgot

2010-02-25T14:46:00.001-08:00

The great tragedy of our era will not be ecological, but ethnographical

''...Biologist suggest that perhaps 20 percent of mammals , 11 percent of birds, and 5 percent of fish are threatened, and the botanist anticipate the loss of 10 percent of floristic diversity, linguist and anthropologist today bear witness the imminent disappearance of half the extant languages of the world.'' '' Of the 7000 languages spoken today, fully half...will disappear within our lifetime.''

-Wade Davis. The Wayfinders, Why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world

The Ethnosphere, humanity's greatest legacy is in extintion danger. With the disappearence of the half of our own diversity we will loss also the half of our history, of our spirituality, and the half of our knowledge on wich we can stand upond to face the challenges of the future. Challenges like the climate change and the lost of biodiversity, because when these voices fade out it will fade away too the cultures wich have develop and conserve the most extensive knowledge about how to live in a true and simbiotic relation with nature.

the next video it's a sample of a lecture given by Wade Davis, for the complete lecture clickHERE

Artificial foot recycles energy ...as a silicon gun!!

2010-02-22T09:23:00.000-08:00

Probably the engineers from the University of Michigan weren't thinking about this when they came with the idea of storage energy through the same kind of mechanical device that makes the silicon gun works (looj at the hhel clutch in the upper picture), but the design analogy it's perfect. This hight-tech electromechanical prosthetic feet works (in the mechanical part) with the same basic principle that a silicon gun, a clever solution for a very complex problem and a really good sample of analogous thinking in the design process.

for the complete article with all the explanation follow this

for a video of the device working folow this

and for the paper who explain... everything follow this

Joshua Prince Ramus

2010-02-02T13:40:00.000-08:00

Everyone that has work in theater know the face of the building administrator when you tell him that you need to put some screw in his floor or do anything that may be perceibe not quite as a damage, but a modification.

Well there is an Architect that includes that face in the design process of a new theather house in Dallas. This guy, against the idea of architecture based on self expression, take the function of the building and put it in the center of the process, together with the notion of ''architectural manifestations'' should follow the position taked by owner, the user and the designer of the building at the beggining of the design process. That is a quite interesting approach (in times were the magic pen of ''starchitects'' fly full of petrodollars) that leads to a very funtional, responsive and striking architecture.

A virtual view of Haiti's earthquake

2010-01-29T03:19:00.000-08:00

I Have found a very powerfull tool to realize the scale of the devastation after the last big earthquake ocurred the afternoon of the Tuesday 12th of January in Haiti. This map provides information in several layers, including one that shows a detailed damage assessment.

(bing maps may be required)

http://www.virtualdisasterviewer.com/vdv/index.php?selectedEventId=7

The view from the ground

How to help through America solidaria foundation

Mirror system, or the empathy mechanism in our brains

2010-01-12T04:03:00.000-08:00

Recently I came across with a video that introduces the idea that we have a neuronal mechanism that allows us to share the experience of other people just by look at them or heard them. This mechanism it's call the Mirror System. This neuronal device, that don't depend on any specific brain structure, was first found on monkeys as an unexpected neuronal response when some scientific team in Parma were studying the response of some neural groups related with conscious movement. The exercise was grab a piece of food, when the monkey grab it the neurons ''turn on'', the surprise was when the exactly group of neurons also ''turn on'' when the monkey saw one person of the team grab the food.

That found opens a complete new research branch in neuroscience and until now it has been prove that this system has incidence in motor, sensitive and symbolic system. This means that through the ''mirror system'' it can be trigger motion, sensitive and emotional responses in the subject that look or hear an action. This is why we make funny faces when we see a football player get kick by another, or why movies make us cry.

The mirror system it's the only mechanism that has proven to be fundamentally social, that means that it is a specific device to learn and behave socially. The thing that I see as a relevant issue here is that when you are worried about to understand human behaviour (like Design as a discipline it is) you have to be conscious about the importance of firsthand experience and above all, of observation; because this means that through experience and observe the human behavior you can easily address gestures, emotions and comprehensions that can drive conceptually and formally the develop of a project.

The relevance and functions of the mirror system go, of course, far beyond the field of design and can give us a knowledge greater than confirm a fact well know by experience (observation and firsthand experience are our best tool for design) and it can put us in the real and deep understanding of human behaviour.

more info:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html

What are the discussion on Design by these days?

2009-12-20T13:27:00.000-08:00

fig 1

Some days ago I read in WYSIWYW a really interesting and visceral post about Design & Art. This relationship has been discussed (above all in design schools, I have never hear an artist say a word about that) since the beginning of the design as a discipline, and to be honest I’m quite tired of hear arguments going in both ways, and I agree when the people from ''Sindicato de la Imagen'' says Art is Art and Design is Design, get over, don't lose more time in nonsense.

But this closure leaves us another question: what is the discussion in design by these days? And, what are the topics of that discussion?

Design, as any other consolidated discipline, has several components that converge to give substance to his theoretical and practical body: Methodology, Ethics, Technical issues, Aesthetics, Relation with the industry, Connection with other disciplines and Cultural relevance, just for say some. All these components can also be analyze by them self to find new areas to debate and to extract polar concept that define the extension of the discussion. For example, if we look the arguments in Methodology we can find ''Design thinking'' as one of the mayor driver of the praxis by these days, but also we can find ''Problem solving'' (coming from engineering) as one of the most common approaches to design. In other areas like Aesthetics polar concepts can be a little more diffuse, and they can go from naturalism (Bouroullec) to new rationalism (Lehanneur), from the nostalgia (Hayon) to the material and structural efficiency (Grcic) (fig 1).

In the same way of analysis we can find polar concept in Ethics. Today in design every day we can contrast the Super luxury -of cars, yachts, interiors, electronics, high-end audio systems, clothes, watches and almost a endless list of product focus on give pleasure and social relevance to his owners- with product and projects focus on solving social issues like education (OLXC), Health (Lifestraw), shelter ( rectionhousingsystem), energy ( ceramic jiko). Social focus has permeated design even further than poverty issues to address health and social behaviors in the developed world (NYC Condom).

The word Design its use today almost as a synonym of innovation, and in this relationship lays the Cultural relevance of design. As material culture dynamo, Design has the responsibility to innovate, but innovation can also be decompose in the polar concepts of Incremental Innovation and Conceptual Innovation. The difference lies in if the innovation comes to improve something that already exists (incremental) or introduces a new way to achieve a desire effect. For example you can design a new washing machine in which you can wash color and white clothes at the same time without worry about the white clothes get stained in the process, which would be a really good improvement in washing. That would be an incremental innovation. But if you make yourself the question: why do we need a big and complex machine to wash our clothes? Or even better, why do we need water to wash our clothes? You can find some new ideas on how to clean the clothes that can drive you to develop new objects and process of cleaning, which would be a conceptual break through, a conceptual innovation. The main difference between this two ways of innovate is the physical product of them. In incremental innovation the most of the cases ends in a new variation of a pre-existing product (like a better washing machine), but the product of conceptual innovation usually is a complete new item, that open a new branch on the technological tree (like self cleaning surfaces).

Another big difference between incremental and conceptual innovation it’s the risk level, improve an existing product it’s a safer road than develop something complete new one. But that is a subject of business rather than design, as it is also the scale of the production. Design is –and this it’s my position- in the solution, not in the repetition or the scale of the production.

The discussion on today Design it is a lot bigger than we just talk here, and we have to be aware that this isn’t a light conversation about taste or how improve the business strategy. This is about what to do in a discipline that every day has a more relevant role in society and culture.

This conversation should continue and I think one good introduction is this video where Tim Brow talk about different aspects of Design and Design thinking.

Now we have metal that work as a tree

2009-12-15T11:51:00.000-08:00

Recently have been unveiled a piece of metal that can transport water in a vertical way, defying the gravity force, just as trees in nature.

In Nature trees pump water up by a combined mechanism called ''the cohesion-tension theory''. Water travels up by capillarity and a difference in the water potential produced by the transpiration pull.

In Capillarity - or Wicking- the narrow the tube, the highest the column. So, if you have a extremly powerfull laser with the highest frecuency that you can imagine, a Femtosecond, what would you do? of course, the most thinnest tubes ever. That was the idea of Chunlei Guo optics scientist, from the Rochester University.

The potential aplications for this new material goes from microprocessors to clean hydrophobic surfaces...for now(when the paper that describe the process and the material is not even published yet), in the future we will hear, for sure, about more ways to apply the etched-metal.

more information on:

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3387

How to make-and read- a 2.5 billon pixel Milky Way Image

2009-12-13T07:06:00.000-08:00

Watch the video with all the explanations

GREEN FOOTSTEP, a design tool for sustainable buildings

2009-12-08T13:53:00.000-08:00

''Your building, your carbon, and what you can do about it'' ...it's the main idea behind this useful tool for architects. For sure it's not the first carbon footprint calculator but it is the first to include multiple building emissions over the building lifetime, also this tool gives you directions on what to do to decrease the footprint of your projects. This on-line resource was developed by the Rocky Mountain Institut, a group of very prepared people that are very concern about how we use our energetic resources and how we can improve the performance of our built-environments, so concern are they about this topics that not only they make realy good tools to help us to meke good decitions related to the footprint of our projects, but they also explain us the teory and the legislation behind this issues in a realy clear way and with all the reference needed. So, check the site and start to design in a little bit greener way.

From Art to Science...and back (Reuben Margolin's kinetic sculptures)

2009-11-26T04:40:00.001-08:00

First of all, if it is anyone real follow this blog i would like to apologize me for the big time window between this post and the previous one. Now, i find this excelent example of the crossover between art and science. Reuben Margolin translate the physics of waves into the language of art with amazing results, big and complex instalations waving smoothly as a light water perturbation or as the peculiar gait of the caterpillar.

The crossing between Art and Science it's not new, but it is somehow one of the most interesting and revolutionary paths that the Arts is following these days. In the same field of kinetic sculpture we can find the amazing beach animals by Theo Hansen, but also we can count the phylosophical questioning made through hightech-interfaces by Natalie jeremijenko who put in evidence the nature of our relationships with other people, animals, the cities, and so on.

There is a lot of people working now in this area, bringing the concepts of science and using the new technologys to make some reflections about the world on what we live, and they are making amazing things. But also there is a few who follow the opposite path, from science to art, and they are discovering the big power who lies behind the human expression and how these knowledge -intuitive and irrational as usually is - can hold the keys of one of the most complex structures, the human behaviour.

amazing

Pranav Mistry, the invention sense

2009-11-20T08:12:00.000-08:00

Pranav Mistry is one of that people that have the abitlity of play with the technology as if it was the most childish of the games. With a background in Computer Science and Design, Pranav Mistry gather together the understanding of the interaction between the people and the digital interfaces and the comprehension on how technology can improve our lives to give birth to some of the most radical devices and interfaces. This one of the guys who is shaping the future human-computer interaction... and it's going open source!!!

Mathieu Lehanneur, object-ivness and user comprehension

2009-11-17T14:14:00.001-08:00

Mathieu Lehanneur -French designer- who claims for a Design informed by Science to understand our real needs -like silence- and develop products with wich we can relate, and even achieve symbiotic dependences (for good, fortunately). It's also a good example of new areas for design and the richness that multidisciplinary work brings to design.

http://www.mathieulehanneur.com/

Martin Puryear, Monomaterial cultural explorations

2009-11-14T09:23:00.000-08:00

http://video.pbs.org/video/1237794459#

Recently i've came to know the sculptor Martin Puryear (1941), he catch my atention with his wooden sculptures who resembles in a very subtle way some ''cultural bags'', objects that carry representative shapes and shades of an past moment in history, like a Wooden wheel or a ladder.

Another thing that realy grab me was the austerity of his work. Almost all his pieces are built in only one material, this can be stone or metal but above all wood. This artist fill spaces with objects that are wonderfully crafted in wood in wich ones you can recognize the most traditional techniques of woodworking. The relation with cabinet-making it's obvious in every joint. The cultural explotarion of his work goes through the objects into techniques, and put the ancient knowledge of woodworking into the lenguage of modern Art.

What i like of Puryear? the way he relates deeply with the material, the cultural and simbolic awareness of the comun objects. An also the way that he translate his wooden shapes into other materials.

BIOMIMICRY, or the green path of the new technologies

2009-11-09T12:22:00.001-08:00

Biomimicry, must be one of the most beatiful word that i learned in last time. It means understand and apply biological principles in human designs. Simple, but not simplistic.

The first time that i heard this word was in a Robert Full talk in TED, where he shows his investigations on Geckos feet, and how he and his team manages to achieve a deep understanding of the mechanic that allow this little lizard to climb glass walls with almost no effort, and - here's the exiting part- develop a sinthetic simulation of this feet that recreate the special habilities of this animal. The incredible amount of work made by Full and his team had big rewards in patents of new materials, applications and designs.

Two of most intereting things -at least for me- were, first the multidisciplinary aproach, mostly in the part of developing the new feet and the bottomline of the talk. In the first one because the complexity of nature demand the integration of the differents sides of sciences and technology to produce holistic understanding and feasable designs. The second, the bottomline ''we most preserve the nature design before they are lost'' this words point to

a new issue in the enviromental crisis that we are living. Nature produce extremly eficient and creative solutions through thousands - if not millions- of years of iterations, solutions that can be lost in a couple of years because the habitats destruction and animal extintion.

Other thing that caught my attention was the Biomimicry as a methodology. As a designer most of the process involve on creation have to do with the interaction between the forms and the enviroments; so, as Christofer Alexander says long ago, we analize the ''surroundings'' of an object (fisical, semantic, perceptive, mechanic, etc) and we propose forms that ''fits'' properly with these surroundings...but what Nature do if it is not that!? I'm not saying that designers are a force of Nature, but the process of design -and with this i mean every process call design- has to do a lot with what Nature do. Multiple and consecutive iterations to

develop a specific form, function or behavior. In this way it is very interesting the example of FESTO, German company who take the concept of Biomimicry to develop Pneumatic Robots who works, looks and behave like real animals.

This robots born from the deep understanding of the motion of these animals, and it is the transference of that understanding of mechanical principles to the design of these pneumatic creatures where lays the relevance of the biomimicry research; the groundbreaking conceptual innovation, in this case, of how mechanical devices can stop to be mechanical devices and become creatures with specific functions, in a product more close to poetry than engineering.

Biomimicry in the form of Biomechanics it isn't new, in every culture we can find examples of how the men build tools based in the observation of nature, but what it is new is put the focus on the materials and behaviors. In the last years the research on how the Nature resolve his more smallest structures combined with the Nanoengineering had resulted in the revolution of the materials industry. But maybe the most promising area of Biomimicry it's the study of the naturals behaviors that can lead to the improvement of the responsiveness of our own enviroment due to the basic principle that the behaviors are modeled by the information that the subject can perceibe. If we can improve our undertanding on how the Nature ''talk'' and interact with him self we can start to design the enviroment it self, not just the material part of it but the way that the enviroment can generate by it self the responses (forms, structures, stimulus, ...)for the immediate needs. An self evolving artificial enviroment.

For now Biomimicry it is at service of the cutting edge technology insdustry, but why not expect that in the future this path also take us to a better comprention of how we can live in Nature and not just above the Nature.

information and source:
http://www.festo.com/cms/de_de/index.htm
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/1748-3190
http://www.biomimicry.net/
http://www.biomimeticsregistry.net/main.html
http___www.biomimeticsregistry.net_pietrzyk.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimicry

Recomendantion of the week: Why 'Sleeping on It' Helps

2009-11-03T15:55:00.000-08:00

By John M. Grohol, PSYD, PsychCentral.com

We're often told, "You should sleep on it" before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does "sleeping on it" help your decision-making process?

Conventional wisdom suggests that by "sleeping on it," we clear our minds and relieve ourselves of the immediacy (and accompanying stress) of making a decision. Sleep also helps organize our memories, process the information of the day, and solve problems. Such wisdom also suggests that conscious deliberation helps decision making in general. But new research (Dijksterhuis et al., 2009) suggests something else might also be at work — our unconscious.
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The evolution on products

2009-11-01T16:29:00.000-08:00

This week i have been in two very unusual and interesting places, two museum of contemporary products, Mercedes Museum and Vitra Museum.

The big diference between those museum and the regular ones (like history, Natural history, or an Antropology Museum) is that in this ones you can see a sample of a particular product an also you can see the path that leeds him to that point and the later development. In a historical museum in were the object exposed are a unique sample that comes to describe an specific cultural moment, you can only infer the amount of work and the creativity weigth of that single piece of craftmanship and, in the same way, you also have to infer the value of that object had for the people that in first place possessed it. Like the value of an spear for a hunter. But what happend when you step in front of a complete chain of development in the same object? you can see the value of craftmanship because you see the process behind every detail of that product, and how that solution connects with the cultural situation.

So, what it's the relevance of this museum? it's not the recolection of precious objects but the visualization of the cultural situation and value system through crafts.

What it is important about this is the understanding that the products didn't born in their optimal stage -if that even exist- but they evolve to fit the cultural expectations. Because of that we can't expect the perfect product, but more important than that is that we can project the future step in the evolution of a single product based in the understanding of this cultural expectations upon that product.

Then we can say that the main feature of this kind of excibition is the craft, but the craft understood as the apply understandind of cultural expectations into the phisical tansformation of the matter.
The craft as the act of visualize and therefore create…
…from my point of view, Design.

For more information on the product evolution watch this video

Iluminated Apparel 2010 by LUMINA MOTION

2009-10-23T04:39:00.000-07:00

This is a sample work of the Chilean Light Design buro LUMINA MOTION, doing their awesome and magical lights set up.

The power of sound, how sound affect us

2009-10-23T01:04:00.000-07:00

I was just killing some time in tedtalks.com when i found this incredible piece of practical human knowledge. Julian Treasure, sound researcher and ex drummer, explain how the sound affect us and how we can use it for different purposes (like playing bird singing give us the impression of safeness). Good for every one, a must for designers.

El Cruce, 10 años

2009-07-19T21:07:00.001-07:00

El Cruce, 10 años, originalmente cargada por camiloanabalon.

Se pasaron

El Sábado 18 el Cruce celebró sus 10 añosde existencia con el galpón Victor Jara lleno. en un show de 2 horas y media aproximadamente repasaron gran parte de su historia musical junto a amigos de la talla de Gonzalo Araya,

Aqui una muestra de lo que fue el concierto

DESIGN NOW

2009-07-11T18:49:00.000-07:00

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EOLIAN EN EL ENEDI

2009-07-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

El equipo de EOLIAN se presentará en el evento a realizarse en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo entre los dias 24 y 27 de agosto

La iniciativa EOLIAN partió como un proyecto de alumnos de Ingeniería Eléctrica que rápidamente se extendió, primero, a otras ramas de la Ingeniería y luego a al Diseño. Este proceso se produjo bajo la base no de quien tenía los mejores recursos sino de quien los manejaba mejor, es decir, quien presentaba mejor comprensión y manejo de los recursos tecnológicos y era capaz de generar las respuestas mas adecuadas con los medios disponibles.

En base a ese fundamental criterio se formaron los distintos equipos que participaron del proyecto: Ingeniería Eléctrica+Diseño, Ingeniería Mecánica+Diseño, Diseño y Gestión. Esto plantea la pregunta de ¿donde yace o cual es el verdadero recurso tecnológico? ¿Es el Hardware/Software que te permite manipular las ideas? O es acaso el conocimiento sobre ¿como funciona la tecnología y que función debiera de tener?

La presentación del equipo EOLIAN se centrara en relatar como fuimos descubriendo las respuestas a estas inquietudes a medida que el proyecto avanzaba y cuales fueron las variables determinantes para insertar al Diseño dentro del espectro del desarrollo de proyectos de alta tecnología.