“In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the ‘Domestic Transformer.”
But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the background, what will occupy our foreground? … We’ll witness a return to the integrity of craft, the humanity of authorship, and the rebalancing of our virtual and physical spaces. We’ll see a 21st-century renaissance in arts- and design-centered approaches to making things, where you—the individual—will take center stage in culture and commerce.
A dramatic title, but the short article highlights an issue I’ve recently become interested in: when interacting with robots, how much and what type of information should we be given regarding their knowledge of us and the interaction? How should this be different or similar to human-human interaction?
Daniel’s post, which linked to a Ben Folds video where he improvs about one of the Harvard houses, reminded me of this gem.
This is Common freestyling at/about NU a couple years back—he pulled a couple students aside 5 minutes before he went on and asked them to tell him everything they could about campus. This is the result. I figured it was appropriate on the eve of my last undergraduate class.