On Thursday 20th October Kjetil Nordby will defend his thesis ‘Between the Tag and the Screen: Redesigning Short-Range RFID as Design Material’ for the PhD degree at AHO. The title of the trial lecture is “Opportunities and challenges for SR-RFID as design material”. Industrial and interaction designers are increasingly faced with new computational technologies that [...]
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Touch at MoMA, NYC
We’re very happy that two works from the Touch project are featured in the latest exhibition ‘Talk to Me’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We’re proud to be exhibited alongside so much outstanding work of contemporary design practice and research. Curated by Paola Antonelli the exhibition brings together diverse design projects [...]
Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen & Einar Sneve Martinussen nominated for the young designer award
The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway ‘Norsk Form’ has nominated Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen & Timo Arnall for the ‘Young Designer’ of the year award. The nomination follows the public success of Immaterials: Light painting WiFi project in both the Norwegian and international media, as well as the work in the Touch [...]
Google, Android and NFC
Alongside the persistent rumours of an Apple iPhone with an RFID/NFC reader (and our own experiments with iPhone NFC interactions) it seems that Google is really beginning to push for NFC as part of its Android operating system and hardware guidelines. In the recent “Conversation with Eric Schmidt” with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly at [...]
Hybrids: The social web in the physical world
The Touch project has a new exhibition in collaboration with the Record project at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design. In recent years we have witnessed the growth of a new breed of consumer products and services that are a hybrid of tangible atoms and online bits. This exhibition offers a selection of products, [...]
New film: Wireless in the World 2
In this film, Wireless in the world 2, simple visualisations of radio ‘spaces’ are overlaid into urban spaces. The film has been made as a follow up to this video experiment and has been specifically designed for exhibition in HABITAR at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Here is an excerpt from the exhibition [...]
Touch at Nordes’09
Touch has an exhibition at Nordes’09 Engaging Artifacts that is taking place at AHO from Sunday 30th August until Wednesday 2 September 2009. Nordes is the Nordic Design Research Conference and this event brings together designers and researchers under the theme of “Engaging artefacts”. Today has been spent setting up the exhibition space, which consists [...]
Touch at Kreative Oslo
We recently had the chance to present Touch at the event Kreative Oslo 09 at DogA, the Norwegian Center for Design and Architecture. Kreative Oslo is a broad seminar that gathers the creative fields in Oslo, including art, design, research, commercial actors, cultural institutions etc. Presenting Touch at a event like this is a good [...]