Thought this summed up my ideas of transparency, from a local arts centre in Cardiff, called Chapter.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Can eco-design be for everyone? reach chemicals legislation
We have been working on a number of eco-design projects recently at the studio (Hoffi). While going through the initial research of eco-design and how people perceive eco-design the feeling of elitist and middle class came out strongly. In someways this is true eco-design products on average are more expensive than other products on the market, and it seems that this is going to be the case for sometime yet. I did come across a glimmer of hope though when I recently was pointed in the direction of the REACH legislation.
See more information here.
Anthony Gormley - Fourth Plinth - One and Other
Yesterday saw the first day of Anthony Gormley taking over the fourth plinth. As I was traveling most of today I managed to get through a fair share of newspapers. The big question that was underlying in all of the articles was the concept of art and what is art? In an age of facebook it seems that art is art yes but also for me it seems to be more in some ways it needs to be a community and interaction. People are hidden away in their own homes communicating through electronic devices, yet experience and the production of experience seems to answer a desire to be sociable. We are sociable beings.
See the telegraph article here
Michael Goldhaber on the Attention Economy
Following the recent posts about open source and free I came across a recent posting by Michael Goldhaber.
Text of an interview with Michel Bauwens, conducted by email on March 30, 2006:
Interview with Michael Goldhaber on the Attention Economy
"1) My educational background is in theoretical particle physics. The threat of nuclear war and the Vietnam war both made me aware that scientists had a responsibility to understand the wider world in which their discoveries were being used and how, and to act for what they understand as the good of all. Aside from some direct political work, I began to be interested in how the history of science fitted into socio-cultural and economic history. By chance I decided to test my understanding with the relatively short history of microprocessors. This was around 1980, as the personal computer was just taking off, when there was much talk of the "paperless office" and so on.
If we were entering a "post-industrial" economy, I wondered what was motivating it. That led me to think in terms of an economy based on information rather than things. But that formulation continued to trouble me. Economies are supposedly organized around the allocation of what is scarce, but even then it was completely evident we were wallowing in information. It was far less scarce even than the super-abundant consumer goods of the old material economy. The need for more information just doesn't work as a motivating factor. I began to be aware that what is intrinsically scarce yet highly desired is attention. What is the point of putting forth information if it doesn't garner attention?
There were all sorts of things to learn to make sense of this, and that is why it has taken so long for me to develop the idea fully.
for the rest of the article see here
More information at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/goldhaber/
Text of an interview with Michel Bauwens, conducted by email on March 30, 2006:
Interview with Michael Goldhaber on the Attention Economy
"1) My educational background is in theoretical particle physics. The threat of nuclear war and the Vietnam war both made me aware that scientists had a responsibility to understand the wider world in which their discoveries were being used and how, and to act for what they understand as the good of all. Aside from some direct political work, I began to be interested in how the history of science fitted into socio-cultural and economic history. By chance I decided to test my understanding with the relatively short history of microprocessors. This was around 1980, as the personal computer was just taking off, when there was much talk of the "paperless office" and so on.
If we were entering a "post-industrial" economy, I wondered what was motivating it. That led me to think in terms of an economy based on information rather than things. But that formulation continued to trouble me. Economies are supposedly organized around the allocation of what is scarce, but even then it was completely evident we were wallowing in information. It was far less scarce even than the super-abundant consumer goods of the old material economy. The need for more information just doesn't work as a motivating factor. I began to be aware that what is intrinsically scarce yet highly desired is attention. What is the point of putting forth information if it doesn't garner attention?
There were all sorts of things to learn to make sense of this, and that is why it has taken so long for me to develop the idea fully.
for the rest of the article see here
More information at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/goldhaber/
The Pirates Dilemma - Matt Mason
This is a video of Matt Mason speaking at Trendtag. As a designer in a branding agency this idea of the pirates dilemma is really interesting and it does seem as one of my previous articles would indicate the idea of free can very much be called into question.
14. Deutscher Trendtag: Social Wealth / Matt Mason: The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism from Trendbuero on Vimeo.
Sunday, 5 July 2009
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