Semi-professional design series explores the field of DIY from the perspective of digital tools and resources used for prototyping things that could only be imagined before. Evolving around technologies and platforms, and within multidisciplinary communities interacting with systems and each other, semi-professional design thinking often manifests as playful objects presenting new viewpoints to the world. The third part of the series looks at “useless things, designed with tools that are typically used for scientific purposes,” as Jari Suominen puts it. …(more)
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"For the OK Talk brunches, we asked the guests to bring over a breakfast ingredient each so that we can cook together with them in the morning and sleep more during the night."
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"By applying artistic perspectives to scientific processes and results, it is possible to make science more approachable – and perhaps more useful for the lay people."
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When asked why Armi Ratia decided to base Marimekko in Finland out of all places, she stated that she was "not amused by easiness".
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Semi-professional design pt. 3 – Unuseless
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Science Poems
Dreaming objects – A meeting with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Articles Export Series: Science Poems / 25-01-2010Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies. OK Do met the duo, both designers and Royal College of Art (RCA) professors, to talk about critical design and their work at the intersection of design, art and science. The interview breaks ground for our forthcoming Science Poems exhibition. …(more)
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Semi-professional design pt. 2 – An aesthetic of incompleteness
Articles Export Series: Remix / 25-11-2009Semi-professional design series presents the ancient phenomenon of DIY from a new perspective through digital devices and communication technologies, exploring new social contexts and technical means of making things. The second part of the series maps out semi-professional design practices that have evolved around technologies and platforms, and within communities interacting with systems and each other. …(more)
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Semi-professional design pt. 1 – An introduction to a digital life of design
Articles Export Series: Remix / 01-11-2009All people design and think about the future. Some people materialise their ideas through sketching, crafting or customising. More and more people hack their electronics, make things on personal fabrication platforms and share their innovations online. Semi-professional design series aspires to understand the possibilities in this kind of non-institutional design, aiming at material artifacts and operating with digital tools. It is an exploration in free form and multidisciplinary approaches to artifacts straddling the categories of work and leisure, and of production and consumption. …(more)