Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical DesignMIT Press, 2005 - 174 Seiten As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products -- from "intelligent" toasters to iPods -- it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales, must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in everyday life. Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives -- to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends. The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, "mixing criticism with optimism." Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context--considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness -- and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include "Electroclimates," animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; "When Objects Dream...," consumer products that "dream" in electromagnetic waves; "Thief of Affection," which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; "Tuneable Cities," which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the "Faraday Chair: Negative Radio," enclosed in a transparent but radio-opaque shield. Very little has changed in the world of design since Hertzian Tales was first published by the Royal College of Art in 1999, writes Dunne in his preface to this MIT Press edition: "Design is not engaging with the social, cultural, and ethical implications of the technologies it makes so sexy and consumable." His project and proposals challenge it to do so. |
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... viewer's interpretation of the electronic object to the designer's . is in the area of linguistic expression : " A combination of telephone and answer- ing machine which transcribes and thermally prints any messages , its modern ...
... viewer to par- ticipate in constructing its meaning . The viewer's questions , interpretations , and criticisms are part of the object's meaning . As a designer operating in a media - saturated cultural sphere , Irie utilizes computer ...
... viewer into a reflective and critical space . These devices look similar to K / K Research and Development's analogs as- sembled from found machine parts . But these only work in relation to a narra- tive , usually social and political ...
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THE ELECTRONIC AS POSTOPTIMAL OBJECT | 1 |
INHUMAN FACTORS | 21 |
THE AESTHETICS OF USE | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design Anthony Dunne Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
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