ubiquitous technology
Technology moves more into the everyday. How does it behave?
A workshop running at HfG Karlsruhe. Students are given a task with deliberately narrow constraints: one motor, two or three sensors, and the instruction to make something that behaves.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
Mark Weiser
The enclosure is fixed to a standard shipping box. No custom forms, no limbs, no eyes, nothing that signals what it’s supposed to be. Students are required to create emotion and communication only with movement.
The challenge is making an anonymous cardboard box feel like it has a character.
Over the years, certain typologies and patterns show up repeatedly, however often students develop completely new approaches as well.
