Group Discussion: Source, Author, Production, Distribution the thoughts. So what is happening is that you get this creative collective that is publishing under one name, so this is one of the phenomenons that is happening lately that have the goal of exposing systems for the better of the others. I don’t know if you guys know but you have this thing called Esky where you start one story and this story is passed on to each other. It’s this idea of group work. So that’s one way how some designers are solving Utopia, or the New Utopia. The idea that we all collectively do something. But in the sense that we created the vocabulary of our workshop. And we would say this is now the Pirate Bay. What would you download as a designer if i tell you that you have to write a story about Utopia?
So what I want you guys to do today, using this around, as a starting point to make something, make a story, using your skills as a designer, to comment one of the things we were talking these last two days. We will all come back together here and we all individually present that one piece of “quoting quote” graphic design that you all produced today. I hope now that the graphic design you are thinking about is different than the graphic design you were thinking of when you entered the workshop. Right? So when I say now think of a piece of graphic design, what is that to you now? So…, source, author, production, distribution. Each of those things can be subverted by a designer. We already established that. Traditional design? out of the window. What are the new forms? What are the new utopian 1.65
16.08.2012 17:00 (Senses) Thomas Hopefully some of these pieces will try to ask more questions than they try to solve. So… let’s ask the maker questions. Laetitia Welcome you all to the new city of Synestophia. → p.1.52 So i was checking around the work of everybody and I came to the conclusion that you can not be fully happy if you get all your needs fulfilled and then…what? It’s like eating good food all the time, it doesn’t feel good anymore if there is too much. So you need a constant flow of things to be happy and I was thinking of a city which would work like an organism, which would be friendly to it’s visitors and it’s inhabitants. And in the future, because we will be more and more, we will have to leave nature alone and fulfill just our basic needs. So, as I’ve been telling to people I have Synesthesia, and some people are saying that people with Synesthesia are the people of the future. I tried in this short movie, to show how the city would interact with you when you are taking a walk, and instead of having just visual signals, let’s say posters or
Thomas Castro: e-Utopia
When people ask us why are we so interested in data or statistics, we always say that our goal is always transforming data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into stories. That’s basically what we are trying to do. So data in itself is not interesting for us. So when you have like this graph, we do these graphs as well, but it doesn’t really tell a story. That’s why our graph, like in the work I showed you, are data visualizations, it’s like a stream of text, that has color, has these levels of understanding within it.
forms of design? And another thing that will maybe help to abstract it, don’t try to solve a problem try to comment on a problem through abstraction. It will really ask more questions than answer the answers. It’s like the start of the next phase of your workshops. And because it’s a group, and there’s no copyright, you can take any part of that research, and appropriate that to yourself. You can inject new kinds of ideas into it, to fulfill your design goals.