Portraits in People-Knowing
Central Questions:
- What can a Civil War Society in Philadelphia tell us about online social networking?
- What are the advantages of designing a GPS system that gets you lost?
- Can you really hear a city hold its collective breath?
Process:
Portraits in People-Knowing deploys technological interventions to create unexpected portraits of people's lives.
Designed Outcomes
Portraits made in a variety of media including videos, books and an interactive presentation.
Takeaway Lessons:
- Embedded within the technology we use is hidden information about the way we live.
- Offers tools for designers to get involved with people and cultivate relationships.
- These portraits offer a platform for telling stories.
- They ask questions as part of critical design practice.
- They allow us to speculate about new methods for invention within the design industry.
Unintended Result:
These projects moved me to uncomfortable places (a Civil War battlefield and Art Center's Wood Shop).
Key Words:
Authorship, The Idiosyncratic and Everyday, Media Design,
People-Knowing, Technology Interventions
