China

Boom

Xian: boom!!
01 Feb 2010

In: GRF, Xi'an
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Digital/Physical Monies

11 Jan 2010

In: Lhasa
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Monk counting donations at the end of the day – the notes are tucked into, and placed on religious artifacts by worshippers. We can design …
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Suit Display Norms

02 Jan 2010

In: Kashi, Locations
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Suit trousers protected from the dust swirling around the floor of Kashi market through the use of bags, that also double up as advertising hoardings.
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A Gauge Annotated

02 Jan 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Kashi, Locations
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Someone has written a date on the gauge’s backplate: for any given physical measuring device, the motivations behind the annotation? As new forms of digital augmentation …
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Specialised Vocabulary

21 Dec 2009

In: Design Inspiration, Xi'an
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Trade

21 Dec 2009

In: Design Inspiration, Future Perfect, Xi'an
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Extrapolating the notion of micro-markets – how small, dynamic, location-flexible can the marketplace for labour become? This is the zipcar of labour.
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Augmentable Realities

20 Dec 2009

In: Design Inspiration, Xi'an
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Who creates the platform for serving up ‘advertising/experiential’ augmentable realities? What is their delivery mechanism? Will consumers have a choice whether to tune-out? Will subsidised …
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Extended Form

18 Dec 2009

In: Cultural Norms, Lhasa
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Augmented Interaction

15 Dec 2009

In: Design Inspiration, Handan
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History’s New Gatekeepers

14 Dec 2009

In: Future Perfect, Lhasa, Locations, Tibet
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Is the current Facebook privacy discussion as some have argued their Microsoft Moment that point where the internal perception of themselves starts to significantly, …
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