Week 10

This week the creative practitioners answer the following:

– Please identity and explain a development process/activity where you had to evolve a more revolutionary approach to solve a project.

Torsten Posselt, FELD

When approached by Volkswagen to come up with an idea about autonomous driving and technology, the studio decided to look closer at the relationship between humans and Ai, rather than anything inherently to do with cars. They created an “App experiment that confronts people with a hypothetical future scenario in which they are able to chat with a system that is both cognitively and emotionally intelligent – an Empathic Intelligence (E.I.).”

500 participants took part in the experiment which offered a real insight into the future of human/robot relations. By posing a potential future it makes us question if it is the route we want to go down.

Matthew Jones, Accept and Proceed

Accept and Proceed worked with Canary Wharf to change the perception about the building and its use from commercial/business to residential. They, “took all the articles written about Canary

Wharf in the last 30 years and we fed all those into a computer and we made an algorithm

that took all the verbs and the nouns out of these pieces…”. They then used these verbs and nouns to make 1420 headlines which could be used for posters and moving graphics.

Wouter Dirks, Studio Dumbar

Studio Dumbar “developed a programme using processing where typography and form interact with sound” to create a new identity for a string orchestra in Amsterdam – Amsterdam Sinfonietta. The inputs created type, form and colour that interacted with music to create these amazing posters.

Stijn van de Ven, Eden Spiekermann

When working with the Irish newspaper, Independent News Media (INM), Eden Spiekerman had an enormous task in front of them. Developing reader experiences both physically and digitally is not a quick win. This can take years to perfect. To overcome this, the studio completed ‘sprints’ to solve some of the smaller issues. They then proposed a place they could reach in 5 years given the right funding and resource. I really like this as a concept. The SMG brief has felt a bit like a sprint, so it would be good to hypothesise where my idea could take them in the future.

Workshop Challenge

This week you will develop your design concept, while ensuring you are in line with your original brief, strategy and project plan. 

  1. Design your selected ‘Industry Set’ project.
  2. Make prototypes and engage with your target audience and key stakeholders to user test your design developments.
  3. Gather target audience and key stakeholder feedback; evaluate this feedback to ensure your project is in line with the original brief, strategy and target audience.
  4. Post developments onto your blog and the Ideas Wall, to gain peer feedback.

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References

Accept & Proceed. n.d. Canary Wharf Residential. [online] Available at: <https://www.acceptandproceed.com/project/CanaryWharfResidential> [Accessed 10 December 2021].

FELD. 2018. Empathic Futures Exhibition. [online] Available at: <https://www.feld.studio/work/empathic-futures-exhibition/> [Accessed 10 December 2021].

Kuyt, J., 2019. Driving Innovation for Independent News & Media. [online] Edenspiekermann.com. Available at: <https://www.edenspiekermann.com/insights/driving-innovation-for-independent-news-and-media/> [Accessed 10 December 2021].

The Dots. n.d. VW SEDRIC Interface Scenarios. [online] Available at: <https://the-dots.com/projects/vw-sedric-interface-scenarios-321157> [Accessed 10 December 2021].

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