Digital Futures Student Explores Speculative Design
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- Lee Jones is a Masters student studying Digital Futures at OCAD University, with a focus on critical design and speculative design projects that explore technology and possible futures. - Some of Lee's projects include the Digital Bell Tower, which measures community feelings instead of just time; The Feeler, a transmedia project exploring a future of biometric security and big data; and Your Body of Water, which uses biofeedback to create a virtual water environment that responds to the user's heartbeat. - Lee's work is aimed at using design to open perspectives and debate about societal issues related to technology, rather than just providing solutions, through imaginative speculative design proposals.
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- 2. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Quick Facts • Masters of design student in Digital Futures at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto (OCADU) • Editor/Founder of Art & Science Journal • Undergraduate degree in English and History & Theory of Art
- 4. Critical Design takes a critical theory based approach to design. This kind of design uses design fiction and speculative design proposals to challenge assumptions about the role objects play in everyday life.
- 5. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects It is probably the desire to get back into society to create an art for everyone and not just the chosen few with bags of money. Artists want to recover the public that has long ago deserted the art galleries, and to break the closed circle of Artist-Dealer-Critic- Gallery-Collector. ❝ ❞
- 6. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Design is not engaging with the social, cultural and ethical implications of the technologies it makes so sexy and consumable. Design can be used as a critical medium for reflecting on the […] impact of technology. ❝ ❞ ❞ ❝
- 7. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Problem Our world has bigger issues! We can use design as a means of speculating how things could be – speculative design. Even the more expressive forms of design are about solving aesthetic problems
- 8. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects This form of design thrives on imagination and aims to open up new perspectives on what are sometimes called “wicked problems”, to create spaces for discussion and debate about alternative ways of being, and to inspire and encourage people’s imagination to flow freely. Design speculations can act as a catalyst for collectively redefining our relationship to reality. ❝ ❞ Speculative Design
- 9. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects • Affirmative • Problem Solving • Provides Answers • Design for Production • Design as Solution • In the Service of Industry • For how the world is • Change the world to suit us • Science fiction • Applications • Fun • Innovation • Concept Design • Consumer • Makes us buy • Critical • Problem Finding • Asks Questions • Design for Debate • Design as Medium • In the service of society • For how the world could be • Change us to suit the world • Social fiction • Implications • Humour • Provocation • Conceptual design • Citizen • Makes us think Speculative Design How we see design vs. what it could be A B
- 10. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Black Mirror This show asks us to consider the implications of technology, and shows us where we are headed if we stay on the current path.
- 11. Digital Futures
- 12. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects The Digital Futures Graduate program is about exploring technology and speculative futures through very rapid prototyping. Images @byleejones
- 13. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects OCAD also has lots of labs and tool spaces so you can work on your own fun projects too J Images @byleejones
- 14. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects 3D Printing Class Trap: A Critique of Modern Foods Images @byleejones
- 15. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Bringing an Idea Across Platforms Exploring Time and How Things Move Through Space To Let Go Images @byleejones
- 17. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 18. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 19. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects • A Tool For Measurement & Timekeeping • Keeping Everyone on the Same Rhythm • Measuring how people are feeling • Instead of static, it is involved • Instead of one person running it, the group runs it • Instead of just a tool, it is also an interactive and playful object Traditional Bell Tower Bell Tower 2.0 Exploring Community
- 21. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 22. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 23. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 24. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 25. The Feeler A Transmedia Project
- 26. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects TheFeelerFilm.com
- 28. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 29. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Big Data Biometric Security Text- based Society Pollution Trends that informed the film
- 30. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects
- 31. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects TheFeelerFilm.com
- 32. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects SmoogleSearch.com MicrohardTechnologies.com SlurrpyKing.com StopSmoogle.com
- 33. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects NeuroSky Transmedia Experience What it’s like inside The Feeler Think “Switch” and the film switches between scenes
- 34. Your Body of Water
- 35. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Can we use biofeedback to get more in touch with our bodies? Instead of seeing the data and comparing it (is my pulse healthy/ normal, etc?) can biofeedback be used for subjective experience and to get you in touch with how you are feeling?
- 36. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Your Body of Water A project that explores the subjectivity of biofeedback, and how you are feeling. The more lively your heart, the more lively the water. The faster it beats, the faster the speed of the water.
- 37. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Version 1
- 38. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Version 1
- 40. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Version Two As your heart rate increases: • The water spins faster • The circle of water gets larger • The sounds of waves get louder
- 41. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Version 2
- 43. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Improvements Needed from User Testing & Next Steps • Circle reminds people of “The Ring” horror film (not relaxing!) • Arduino pulse sensor is good for prototyping but not accurate (if you have cold hands your pulse could be 140-200!)
- 45. About Influences Digital Futures Digital Bell Tower The Feeler Your Body of Water Future Projects Working with Dr. Henry Moller in Toronto Technology-Enhanced Multimodal Meditation using Virtual Reality • Building The World. • User Testing. • Continuous Reiterations.
- 46. Ultimately, design can help us to explore problems bigger than just aesthetic ones.