Designers' Open 2008
DESIGN PHILADELPHIA 2008
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
FREEDESIGNDOM 2008
ManufRactured EXHIBITION
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM SUMMER WORKSHOPS
BICYCLE
FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW 2008
CERAMICS AND SOUND EXHIBITION
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008
MAKER FAIRE 2008
A New Relationship to Money? by Chris Woebken
MA students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art were challenged to explore the future of money when it disappears as a physical currency.
The Brief:
As the technology of e-money and currency advances, how will that effect the social and psychological dimensions associated with those technologies? What new behaviours, new dangers, new rituals, and new pleasures could emerge?
Some students chose to literally make e-money tangible while others looked at the larger big-brother social and privacy implications. Sponsored by Intel's People and Practices Research Group in Portland, the 'client' was a research group made up of ethnographers, anthropologists, computer scientists, psychologists and a designer. Students also worked with an anthropologist of money called Bill Maurer based in California.
Pictured (left to right):
The Spectacle of Paying by Gunnar Green
Electric Money by Austin Houldsworth
Early Exit by Daisy Ginsberg
Personal Relationship Assistant by Bernhard Hopfengärtner
London Design Festival 2008
Core77 visits NASA:
DesignPhiladelphia 2008
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