MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
Perverting the Everyday: Co-speculating a Strange Product Catalogue
*Designing faux product pages for the strange appliances of an alternate reality. Perversion of Interfaces is a collection of objects that claim to be “smart,” but often fail, misbehave, or...
- When
- Sat, Nov 14
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM PT - Where
- San Francisco
- Host
- tiat (the intersection of art & technology)
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
*Designing faux product pages for the strange appliances of an alternate reality.
Perversion of Interfaces is a collection of objects that claim to be “smart,” but often fail, misbehave, or do something anomalous. A camera that resists taking pictures, a smart light that longs for intimacy, or a prescription device that does face-reading. They are familiar, humorous, worrisome at times, and mostly confusing.
This workshop builds on this notion of "perverting," inviting participants to imagine an alternate reality where "smart" products diverge from contemporary design norms. Drawing from the exhibition's theme of wildly expressive computers, participants will take a familiar, mundane home appliance and completely reimagine its lifecycle.
This will be a participatory, conversational workshop where we will work in small teams to make pitches for speculative products, imagine product-consumer lifecycles, and produce an online catalogue as an archive for our collective "perversion" of familiar objects and rituals.
The workshop will take about 2.5 hours and we recommend bringing laptops!
Agenda
- 20 min - Intro and Conversation - 20 min - Product Pitch - 1 hour - Concept Development in Groups - 20 min - "All Hands Review" - 30 min - Finalization and Launch Celebration About your instructor
Sang is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Design program at Cornell Universi...
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