OPEN Lecture: David Cuartielles

“Failure. How to come out clean without really doing the thing”

Interaction Design is one of the youngest disciplines dealing with applied technology. One of the premises broadly used by practitioners establishes that “if it doesn’t work, fake it” claiming that the concept is bigger than the prototypical realisation.

There is a little bit of magic in making prototypes that express everyday situations or make us reflect upon our own existence. This is why good interaction design has to make use of the old cinematic principle of suspension of disbelief, making us look at non-existing objects and products as if they were here among us.

What remains hidden to the audience is the process of making it, the difference between the designer’s expectations and the obtained results.

We only see the facade of the dirty story of making things blink.
Designers live in a universe of failure where things are not what they seem. Many ideas have to be compromised according to their own capability in getting things made.

This lecture will navigate through a series of projects made during recent years using state of the art of technology that didn’t react as expected.

Biography

Lecture information
where: Strandboulevarden 47A, St tv, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
when: 4-5pm. Thurs 22nd Jan, 2009