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Where Things Live When Not in Use

Zurich: wheelchair
When things, like the aircraft wheelchair pictured here, have autonomous mobility where do they live when they are not engaged in a task, or roaming.



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02 Mar 2013

In: Future Perfect, Zurich
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Location Enscribed

02 Mar 2013

In: Design Inspiration, Zurich
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And coincidentally, the FAA engineering and design guidelines for airports, pilots airport map of SFO.
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Visible Lines

02 Mar 2013

In: Design Inspiration, Zurich
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When Design Rules Are Made To Be Broken

21 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Geneva
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Do cultural attitudes towards obeying and breaking rules – not crossing a road except using pedestrian crossings also extend to the rules by which things …
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Transgression Transparency

11 Feb 2010

In: Future Perfect, Geneva
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Transgressions that become more obvious as the context changes – the parking equivilent of saying the punchline to a rude joke just as the room goes quiet.
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Smile in the Mind

11 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Geneva
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Those little design details that help you see what your brain is trained to see.
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Keyholes as Entry Point to the System

10 Feb 2007

In: Future Perfect, Geneva
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But what functionality does the key hole represent? And what is the cost of finding out? The way in which an object is inserted into another …
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