Category: Project example
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Seminar at “Centre Internet & Société”
The Centre Internet & Société in Paris, which belongs to CRNS, invited Nicolas to give a talk about the project. Right before his presentation, the organizer pulled his own printed copy of the Dr. Smartphone book (which can be seen as the ancestor to the Discarded Digital project). Nicolas introduced the motivations and methods we…
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“Garbage Watch”
Garbage Watch is a wristwatch “built from the tech the world threw away in the trash”. “Launching in 2022, the waiting list is now open”.
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Playful repurposing of digital technology through sculpture
Game ? Advance, by Alex Custodio, is an inspiring project that repurposes digital artefacts through sculpture. The aim is both to provide a critique of “how hardware and software reproduce dominant ideologies around gender and power”, and to imagine an alternative history for Nintendo’s handheld. Alex Custodio addresses the following questions “What does it mean…
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“Design for Obsolete Devices” by Anaëlle Beignon
Anaëlle’s thesis addresses “the obsolescence of technology through the lens of accessibility to public services”. Her design work explores “the ageing processes of electronic devices in regards to a technological normativity that marginalizes owners of obsolete devices.” Check the PDF here.
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“Why using old cartdriges?”
Seen on the website of Iodine Dynamics, which recently “What Remains”, an 8-bit game for the NES console (released in 1985) that blends visual novel and adventure elements: Why blogging this? An interesting project that illustrates the kind of practices we are interested in here. Designing a game in 2019 on a console released thirty…