What if “thinking out the box” was counterproductive for innovation processes in organizations? How do we weave together knowledge about organizations and their environments and creative design tasks? How can we ground design in the identity and culture of the organization? What are the methods we need to develop to help people innovate in situation?… Poursuivre la lecture Grounded design as an alternative to design thinking – La Conception Ancrée comme alternative au design thinking
Catégorie : Research Projects
All our projects put into practice a co-design methodology, associating researchers in engineering, design and media. They take into account the specifity of Information et Communication Technologies as new Media with original contents and uses. They creatively explore the modularity of the digital, and incorporate social and cultural insight that contribute to the maturity of the research product as a technical and symbolic artefact.
Indiscipline of Design: Bridging the Gap between Humanities and Engineering
Annie Gentes’ book on the In-discipline of Design is now published! For more information look at the dedicated website: “Indisciplineofdesign”. With examples coming from art, design, and engineering, she shows that the focus on technical functions and even social uses is not enough to come up with new designs. The Humanities as a reflective discipline… Poursuivre la lecture Indiscipline of Design: Bridging the Gap between Humanities and Engineering
Industrial relationships: Chair on Theory and Models of Conception
The Codesign Lab leads a research theme of the Chair “Theory and Models of Innovative Conception”, founded by Ecole des Mines. The TMCI chair is supported by 11 industrial partners. http://cgs-mines-paristech.fr/tmci/ We focus on “strange objects”. The hype on internet of things, new robot-like objects, teleactivities and hybrid approaches between artistic and technical creations are… Poursuivre la lecture Industrial relationships: Chair on Theory and Models of Conception
Misbehaving & Design : A Workshop for the SIG Design Theory
From the 26th to the 27th of January 2015, the annual meeting of the SIG Design Theory was held in Mines ParisTech, Paris. At this occasion, Annie Gentès and Emeline Brulé organised a workshop about Misbehaving Objects. The brief was the following: “In societies with high conceptive capacity, objects and techniques have multiple identities. This… Poursuivre la lecture Misbehaving & Design : A Workshop for the SIG Design Theory
Mibehaving & Design – Inspirations: a London report
Designers in Residence 2014: Disruption Design museum, London. 10 September 2014 – 8 March 2015. Official Abstract: “Now in its seventh year, Designers in Residence invites young designers – James Christian, Ilona Gaynor, Torsten Sherwood and Patrick Stevenson-Keating – to respond to a brief set by Deyan Sudjic, the Director of the Design Museum. For… Poursuivre la lecture Mibehaving & Design – Inspirations: a London report
Final symposium of the ADAM project — [video]
You can now watch the different talks of the ADAM final symposium online (this research project involved Annie Gentès & François Huguet from our Lab). The research program ADAM (Distributed Architectures and Multimedia Applications) studied the technical, political, social, socio-cultural and legal implications of distributed network architectures. This term indicates a type of network bearing… Poursuivre la lecture Final symposium of the ADAM project — [video]
VUE
Context: e-learning again? The emergence of the Internet has opened up many opportunities for distance learning. Hundreds of initiatives have been launched either by institutions involved in formal learning or by organizations interested by unformal learning These platforms either complete face to face classes or operate in total autonomy. Introducing such a platform in a learning situation fundamentally changes… Poursuivre la lecture VUE
CityWall: an interactive communicating wall
A research project with ZINC/Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille), Seconde Nature (Aix-en-Provence), Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, Digital Deluxe, FING and Telecom Paris-Tech. Inspired by the CityWall of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, the CityWall is a social and poetic experiment taking place in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. The research project addresses the issue of augmented cities… Poursuivre la lecture CityWall: an interactive communicating wall
Dispositifs innovants, nouvelles médiations pour l’exposition Monet 2010
L’exposition rétrospective “Claude Monet – 1840 – 1926” a ouvert ses portes aux galeries nationales du grand palais depuis le 22 septembre 2010. Cette manifestation est co-produite par la Réunion des Musées Nationaux et le Musée d’Orsay. Le Conseil pour la Création Artistique (CCA) a sollicité le département audiovisuel/multimédia de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux… Poursuivre la lecture Dispositifs innovants, nouvelles médiations pour l’exposition Monet 2010
Ubimedia-Bells Labs Application Research
Researching Application Research: my Stay with the Application Research Department in Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs “It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame”. Marshall McLuhan “Application” research is one the trickiest fields as it relies on technologies that are to be identified, analyzed, not… Poursuivre la lecture Ubimedia-Bells Labs Application Research