social spaces goes e culture fair 23.8.10

MAD

• Association PHL-MDA• 4 research groups

– Art & Object– Image and

Narrative– Play & Game– Social Spaces

Social spaces

• Explores the social potential of design art & (new) media

• Via investigating and re-inventing methods and tools in design and artistic research

People

• Cross-disciplinary team of about 15 researchers

• Partners in variety of domains (social, cultural, technological,..)

“risky” objects are created and used to provoke evocative transmedial

experiences, forcing people to interpret, participate, appropriate

objects should be “open” enough for everybody to participate (health care

workers, art public,...) setting of borders produces creative

friction, comparable to the friction that is produced in daily life

Health

Different projects, sizes, collaborations,...

Health

• Elderly care• Internal proposal,

partners in health care, province and flemish government, sponsors

• Tools: performance, co-design, cultural probes,...

• Today: travelling exhibition (service network)

Roots

• Accessible, familiar• Provocative

Health

• Schizofrenia • Cera, Province proposal• Dreams prototyped with

people: no success• Sensor of sleep patterns

translated in shapes• Passivity shaped in

beauty

Art, Design and Cross-Over

Different projects, sizes and collaborations

Art, Design and Cross-Over

• MAP-it• Mapping

collaborative/cross-over processes in the field

• Ivok, BAM, EDM, Z33, KULeuven, cultural Studies,...

• Cases: Constant, FoAM, Frederik De Wilde, Thomas Lomée

MAP-it

• MAP-it• Toolkit developed• Iteratively tested in

different contexts: ethnographical research, workshops like Genks, Baltan Lab, I-Beta, Cumulus, Stilte...

• Sticker, folded map and open source toolkit

• Accessible icons and system

• Icons producing friction

UseWell

• Used in a sequal for design field

• Inventory imaginative tools/methods Participatory Design

• CUO Televic, Pyxima, ATiT, Usentric

Creating Spaces

• Creating Spaces• Public space art project,

table displays projects and should invite people to comment, contribute,...

Creating Spaces

• Demo sessions, high and low tech prototypes

Creating Spaces

• Open system: open street map + toolkit with which designers/art centre can easily program the interface

• Friction: unfolding, instead of touching and opening, interaction digital physical,...

Open Garments

• Large consortium, FP7• Visualisation ideas via

video, scenario and paper prototyping

• Of ideas that for the traditional textile field are quite uncommon

• The role of play!

contact?

liesbeth.huybrechts@mda.khlim.bewww.socialspaces.be

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