I completely agree with Schön when he underlines the importance of a repertoire of experience. Since every practitioner deals almost everyday with hypothesis confutation he has to face unknown situations. But what if he has not a good enough repertoire? I refer to my first project experience when I had no previous experience in interaction design since my background was in commmunication and sociology. I had never dealt with design and...
Read MoreGraveyard interaction design: interactions and dead-zones
Interactions shape and build the whole world we live in. Aristotele said that the man is a social animal and that is why we can find interactions almost everywhere.However, while the entire world is based on interactions, we cannot say the same for design. Even if its importance is widely accepted, there are what we could call “dead zones”, potential field of work not yet investigated.I would like to focus my project on one of these...
Read MoreMeasuring Space with Time
Two days ago I was going home by bike and I was listening to the music. I have a playlist I listen all of the times I go to the studio. The interesting thing is that I listened to the same song in the same space. I mean that the same song played while I was in the same place the first and the second time.For this reason I wondered about measuring my trip with the songs: this street could be measured with Ben Harper while that one with U2....
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