Nicolas Nova has written up a rather elegant,
lushly illustrated .pdf report about the recent
LIFT06 workshop on blogjects.
http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/blogject-lift06.pdf
Meanwhile, a spectacular burst of creativity on the lazyweb neologism front:
From: [email protected]
Subject: Naming Things
Date: March 14, 2006 10:48:02 PM GMT+01:00
Bruce:
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I’m loving your work.† I thought you would appreciate this selection of terms for your “loose verbal grab-bag”. †Most are found, some borrowed and some have been invented.†
I’m currently working on a PhD thesis based on the notion that there a hybrid area of practice is emerging around the convergence of sculpture, industrial design and architecture.† I am asserting that new sets of creative, cultural and economic conditions have stimulated intriguing levels of inquiry by creative practitioners to work across two or more of these domains and to seek out and use technologies that facilitate a particular blurring between these disciplines.†
My hunch is that this convergence (enabled and accelerated by computer visualisation and manufacturing processes) signifies a multidirectional morphing of disciplines and the opportunity to create fundamentally new types of designed object and practice that eclipse conventional tropes. (((I want the T-shirt.)))
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My research blog is at http://designedobjects.blogspot.com/
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acculturated objects
actual / virtual / fictional objects
ambiguous objects
appropriated / reappropriated objects
augmented objects
autonomous objects
banal objects
blobjects
boundary objects
bridging objects
by-products
chindogu
co-created objects
co-existent objects
collaborative designed objects
commodities / comm-oddities
computationally enabled objects
container-objects
context-aware objects
counter-propositions
critical designed objects
customised mass-production
cutensils
decorative objects
defamiliarised objects
democratically designed objects
designed to order objects
design yoga
designed objects
designed experiences
designology
design-oriented
dissident design
distributed in objects
electronic objects
embedded objects
emulated objects
enabling objects
enhanced objects
everyday objects
fabricated found objects
facilitator objects
fakes
fictional products
filiations
filter-mediated design
frankenthings
functional / dysfunctional / para-functional / hyper-functional objects
gadgets
gizmos
Good Design
guerilla products
hacked products
handheld objects
hijacked products
hybrid objects
hyper-objects
idiosyncratic objects
individualised consumer products
information appliances
infrastructure
interdependent objects
inversions
kitsch
machine-mediated designed objects
manipulated products
mass-customised objects
materiality / immateriality
mediated objects / re-mediated objects
mere real things
meta-contextual design
metadesign
mixed-dimensional objects
modified objects / modded products / mods
multidimensional design
multi-modal design
multiples
mundane objects
new object grammar
non-design
objectology
objects at work
objects for society
objects of experience
objects that contain
objects that direct
objects that fit
objects that interact
objects with bodies
open source manufactured objects
paraconceptual objects
post-interesting objects
post-optimal objects
potential actualities
processing appliances
prototypes
purposed / re-purposed / fit for purpose objects
queer-ed products
r(e)volutionary morphologies
radical uselessness
ready-designed objects
reciprocal readymades
recombined products
reconsidered products
recontextualised objects
re-designed objects
reflective design
reformulated objects
re-positioned objects
re-used objects
reversals
screen-dominated objects
semantic product qualities
sensing / actuating capabilities
sentient objects
slippages
smartefacts
smARTobjects
socially useful objects
socially-engaged objects
spimes (speculative imaginary objects)
standardised / individualised objects
stealth products
stuff
subverted products
tagged artefacts
tangible objects
things
things with attitude
underdesigned
un-released products
useless objects
utilitarian objects
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Cheers,
John Marshall
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