Living Metadata
“Living Metadata” is a critical assessment of the growing mass of metadata at the centre of digital society. It presents a hypothetical solution to the energy drain caused by technologically augmented living. The potential energy…
Category Archives: Calum Bowden
Pigeon Centered Design (PCD)
Is it possible for humans to positively effect the life experience of other non-human animals? While such a question makes some assumptions about the role of humans, it could be beneficial for all inhabitants of…
Examples of Interfaces
1. Exchange rates display- digital, confusing interface, unclear meanings 2. Apple’s ‘home’ button- tactical, muscle memory, simple and easy to use. But it may be disappearing from the iPhone’s design! 3. Trowel- simple, effective, satisfying.…
Biomimicry Examples
Like In Proposal for Resurrecting Prehistorical Mammals, Marguerite Humeau painstakingly reimagined the sonic environment of prehistoric mammals. To produce the sounds, she reconstructed the bone structures of a Mammoth’s, an Entelodont’s, and an Ambulocetus’ vocal chambers as preserved in fossil records and…