Ett Hem Stockholm hotel
Ett Hem (a home in English) is a new hotel in Stockholm situated in a classic townhouse in a peaceful residential area called Lärkstan. Ett Hem just got 12 rooms and each of them are designed individually in a personal and relaxed manner by Ilse Crawford. We wanted to continue the story of this house...
Instant payoff
When implementing an aesthetic strategy, one of the initial consideration is deciding whether your are aiming for “instant presence” or “instant payoff”. In my previous post, I discussed the qualities of instant presence. Instant presence is an aesthetic experience that occurs as a result of extended payoff time, and a challenge of assumptions; the receiver...
It’s Liquid –
There is noting permanent, but change. – Heraclitus (535-475 BC) According to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, we now live in a “Liquid Society” where reality keeps changing at a very fast pace and individuals need to adapt smartly to survive. By splicing together an unending series of short-term projects, the episodes do not add up to the kind...
COURSERA – changing the face of education globally
Just this morning I read an article from yesterdays paper about Coursera – a new free online and interactive education system initiated by two American professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University in San Francisco. We offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. We currently host courses from...
BCXSY in collaboration with Irish boat builders Meitheal Mara
Dutch-based design duo BCXSY has just finished the latest chapter of their Origin series. Contrast, as the third chapter is called, will be presented next week during the Milan Design Week at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. Chapter is developed through a collaboration with Meitheal Mara – (translated from Irish roughly as, workers of the sea or sea community), a...
We feel fine – An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
I have written about one of Jonathan Harris’ projects before – back then it was Cowbird. Now it is something older, but nonetheless equally fascinating. “We feel fine” is a program, a piece of code written to detect human emotions all over the world as they are declared online on blogs. Since August 2005, We...
Marché Japon
Where does it come from? How was it grown? These are important food issues for all modern societies with high health-conciusness. The questioning turned into a major concern in the Japan after the Tōhoku earthquake. The Marché Japon – Farmer’s Market – initiative started back in 2009, as a way to promote local products with...
Instant presence
Continuing the thoughts of my previous post - and thereby the development of the aesthetic strategy, I am working on at the moment - I intend to discuss what extending the “payoff time” includes, and why doing so (or not doing so) can be a strategic parameter. By prolonging the time it takes the receiver to understand...
A Good Hotel in San Francisco
When travelling you will find hotels with different identities based on a lot of different thematic ideas. Good Hotel in San Francisco has a nice and important theme – doing good. Creative home made furniture in the reception area, bikes you can borrow, toilets that saves water and wise words here and there. On top...
Aesthetic strategy
At the moment I am occupied with the thought of creating a model for an aesthetic strategy. A way of organizing a design process around e.g. the following questions: What kind of aesthetic experience do you want your receiver to attain? Do you want your receiver to experience instant “payoff” (and thereby to be able to...
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