The Colouring

http://beckyandjoes.com/

I love this.

Space Mission Badges

Assess and Predict

Arts Festivals

Visited: Apollo @ Science Museum

System D

The Informal Economy

Kids and Technology

Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

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"The idea behind a tiny and cheap computer for kids came in 2006, when Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, including Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science in each academic year. From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as experienced hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant might only have done a little web design."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/about

airborne drone tours London

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/02/team-black-sheep-video

Seen: Surrogates

Dissertation: DONE

Title - Scalar Ways of Seeing: Perspectives on Perspective.

Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten I was interested in how advances in technology have given us new ways of seeing ourselves for example the invention of flight allowed us to see our cities from above for the first time and spaceflight brought with it images of the whole earth. Also, the significance of vertical perspective and viewing things at different scales. I analysed the new types of media that came with these new technologies and how they reflected on socio-political issues of their time. I concluded by debating whether currently we have focused our attention on a microscopic perspective and all of our investigations into events on a micro scale e.g nanotechnology, human behaviour at a neuro level and synthetic biology are in a bid to make them more applicable to things on a human scale.

Project: Post-Apocolympics

Project Blog: http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/fictional-sports/
Project Brief: http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/fictional-sports/?page_id=2

Project launch with sports ethicist Dr Andy Miah and sports psychologist Dr Katie Dray.
Scenario building and quick film making workshop with Charlotte Jarvis and J Paul Neeley.
Noam took us to the Design Museum to see the new 'Designed to Win' Exhibition and meet the curator Alex Newsom.
Nina took us to see the post-Olympic site, Olympic Legacy, her project Abbey Gardens and meet DI alumni Oliver from We Made That at their newly design playground in East London.

My Project -
Games models are becoming more embedded in our everyday lives.
The Quantified Self community monitor and record their behaviours and actions in a bid understand themselves better and improve things such as sleep, eating habits and healthy living, through incentive and reward based behavioural models. As a result some of their decisions and actions are dictated via perceived patterns in the data they collect on themselves to try and reach goals they set. What if people start to analyse their relationships with family, friends and colleagues in a bid to try and understand themselves better or improve / alter / manipulate relationships with others? What effect will this have on physical interactions with others?