Hi, my name is Sandra Bermúdez and I live and work in Mexico City. I've
been following this list for long time ago but this is my first post.
I'm graphic designer working on digital products development. I made a
master on Design Studies. Currently I'm also working in my thesis research.
The subject is "Digital platforms and design practices" and my goal is to
dig into how our practices and values as designers have been reshaped
facing the tecno-social transformation lead by digital platforms.
I address the "Smart objects and perpetual connectivity" on how the gadget
as an electronic device of domestic use becomes part of the social strains
(I've found the work of Fiona Raby and Antony Dunne too useful, for
example). Onboarding the gadget and the internet as the components which
enable a wide range of new scenarios for design and deeply transform the
way we work, not only because of the new skills and fields of action, but
also the object itself as a responsive intelligent matter in continuous
dialogue with the context and the user (like Bruce Sterling on Shaping
things and Paola Antonelli on Talk to me).
DUNNE, A. Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and
Critical Design, Londres: RCA CRD Research Publications, Royal College of
Art, 1999
STERLING, Bruce. Shaping things. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005
ANTONELLI, Paola et al. Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between
People and Objects, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011
After setting the basis, I properly focus on the "Digital platforms and
design practices" intending to understand the new complexity for design
aims and procedures, and "Open: object, tools, processes", on the arise of
two great poles; the close versus the open one. Relating the last one with
open source, free culture, open tools, collaborative procedures, co-design,
crowdsourcing, new models for distribution, platforms for sharing and so.
LESSIG, Lawrence. Free Culture. Penguin, 2004
SENNETT, Richard. Together: the rituals, pleasures, and politics of
cooperation, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012
I appreciate all kind of feedback, questions and references.
Saludos, Sandra.
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