This story is part of an unpublished pamphlet co-authored by Pouyan Bizeh & me on Situated Technologies as a trans-discipline of Design, technology, and art written back in 2016. I have used some materials from that pamphlet for this story to elaborate on some of the key origins of the notions of interaction [design]. This probably can help fellows in HCI, IxD, UX, and product design to understand the origins of their passion/profession.
Notion of Cybernetics
It no longer seems likely that the carrying out of a “purposeful act,” like picking up a book on the table, is a simple one-way process in which the appropriate part of the brain dictates to the appropriate muscle, by means of neurons, what action they must act in order…
I was first exposed to this topic back in 2016 when I was involved in the process of initiating the branch of a Swedish company Tehran. At the time I suggested a 100 square meter innovation space in the basement of the company’s building. Later on, with two interior designer…
This story is a brief synopsis of a thesis project submitted to the faculty of School of architecture and planning in the Situated Technologies research group in 2016. The Original title was “Not Another Tool: Designing Resistance Scenarios For Sustaining Street Movements In Response To Riot Control Scenarios”. This work…
Caution: There are some spoilers about HBO TV series Westworld S03e03 in this story.
I usually don’t spend lots of time watching TV series. However, some are worth watching. One of which is another successful HBO series: Westworld. It is created by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. In this short…
