Why Design is Conversation and Why Conversation for Every Design
Let’s imagine we are the catalyst for starting a new project, some design challenge relating to a new app. First, we all recognize the value of the participants in a conversation. We all experience the improvement in thinking and outcomes when we work with someone else. This seems to say, “more participants means better outcomes”—hah, you …
This is a useful review by Jonathen Franzen called “Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’”, about Turkle’s new book. Franzen says “Conversation is Turkle’s organizing principle because so much of what constitutes humanity is threatened when we replace it with electronic communication.” Turkle praises one user interface that, “instead of encouraging us to stay connected as long as possible, would encourage us to disengage.” But this is …
Above and below: Replica of Gordon Pask’s 1968 “Colloquy of Mobiles” by TJ McLeish and Paul Pangaro at ZKM. Photo and video by TJ McLeish and Patricia Machado. Today at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, a fully-animated Colloquy of Mobiles was displayed at the opening of their exhibition titled »BioMedia: The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior«. Our replica …
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This post is an overview of the direction of #NewMacy Conversations as of August, 2021. Click here to read #NewMacy documentation, including more recent activities . The need for #NewMacy Meetings arose at the start of COVID-19. Overpowering realizations about global systemic challenges, beyond the current biological pandemic, demanded response. Design began with a broad …
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Above and below: Replica of Gordon Pask’s 1968 “Colloquy of Mobiles” by TJ McLeish and Paul Pangaro now installed at ZKM. All photos courtesy of Morgane Stricot, ZKM. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the unveiling of our replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles on February 26, 2020, at Centre Pompidou in Paris where …
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Click here for the video of this panel. Click here for direct link to panel description on the conference webpage. Click here for updated description of #NewMacyMeetings initiative. Here are more details for our first meeting of the revival of the Macy Meetings in cybernetics on Sunday September 13th at Noon EDT, first reported in this prior post, …
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Above: Photograph of the front page of the 10th Macy Meeting from 1953 Click here for direct link to panel session on the conference webpage. Click here for Update on #NewMacyMeeting #1 with description of intention and participant names. Click here for updated description of #NewMacyMeetings initiative. We live in the unprecedented era of multiple global pandemics: COVID-19, …
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Image above: Replica of Gordon Pask’s 1968 “The Colloquy of Mobiles” exhibited in the gallery of Centre Pompidou in 2020. The replica of Gordon Pask’s 1968 Colloquy of Mobiles, reproduced by Paul Pangaro and TJ McLeish in 2018, is now on display in Centre Pompidou’s exhibition entitled MUTATIONS / CRÉATIONS 4: NEURONES / LES INTELLIGENCES SIMULÉES through …
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Image above: TJ McLeish calibrating light and sound in the gallery at Centre Pompidou for the public exhibition opening February 26, 2020. Here at Centre Pompidou for the installation of Colloquy of Mobiles (its 2018 replica) to be displayed as part of a large-scale exhibition, with a conjoined history of brains, neural nets, AI, and …
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While the 2018 replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles is being crated in preparation for its time at Centre Pompidou, the magazine INTERACTIONS has printed a brief description of the project in their DEMO HOUR feature section. Here’s the text of the story: