Comments on: The Future’s BrightON – dConstruct 2009 http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/the-futures-brighton-dconstruct-2009/ The Blog for Dusted Design Partners Limited Tue, 10 May 2011 10:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Matt http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/the-futures-brighton-dconstruct-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-15439 Matt Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:29:06 +0000 http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/?p=942#comment-15439 <a href="http://2009.dconstruct.org/podcast/" rel="nofollow">Podcasts of the presentations</a> are slowly appearing on the dConstruct ’09 website. As of writing this comment you can listen to Adam Greenfield’s as will as Michal Migurski and Ben Cerveny’s. Podcasts of the presentations are slowly appearing on the dConstruct ’09 website. As of writing this comment you can listen to Adam Greenfield’s as will as Michal Migurski and Ben Cerveny’s.

]]> By: David http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/the-futures-brighton-dconstruct-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-14749 David Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:41:18 +0000 http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/?p=942#comment-14749 I want to live in Microsoft’s vision of the future! But only because it looks like one made by Apple...? Especially liking the the coffee cup which should be something Pantone consider for the future (to complement their existing range of mugs). I'd certainly say my missus and I fall neatly in prickly and gooey too but not sure I agree with Greenfield – my car maybe sat unused on the driveway for 20+ hours a day, but during that time... It's looking great! I want to live in Microsoft’s vision of the future! But only because it looks like one made by Apple…? Especially liking the the coffee cup which should be something Pantone consider for the future (to complement their existing range of mugs). I’d certainly say my missus and I fall neatly in prickly and gooey too but not sure I agree with Greenfield – my car maybe sat unused on the driveway for 20+ hours a day, but during that time… It’s looking great!

]]> By: Vilmar Pellisson http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/the-futures-brighton-dconstruct-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-14735 Vilmar Pellisson Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:55:42 +0000 http://www.dusteddesign.com/blog/?p=942#comment-14735 Mankind has developed a special affection for future foresight along the 20th century and it has escalated exponentially in the past two decades. It's interesting, however, to see how fiction and assumptive thinking combined to what new technologies can deliver shapes the ideas about the future and all the elements/subjects which play a part in it. I sense a high degree of convergence in the way designers, scientists and whoever is broadly involved with innovation are thinking at the moment. We are now in a historical moment witnessing the wake of dematerialization/simplification in our everyday objects. The content and functionality prevails and materiality, and design, as a means of generating it, is forced to acknowledge its paradoxical counterpart. So we could say the models proposed by the likes of Baudrillard, is driving mankind to think, more than ever, in ontological terms and that it's been reflected in the way objects and functions will manifest themselves more ethereally in the future. Mankind has developed a special affection for future foresight along the 20th century and it has escalated exponentially in the past two decades.

It’s interesting, however, to see how fiction and assumptive thinking combined to what new technologies can deliver shapes the ideas about the future and all the elements/subjects which play a part in it.

I sense a high degree of convergence in the way designers, scientists and whoever is broadly involved with innovation are thinking at the moment.

We are now in a historical moment witnessing the wake of dematerialization/simplification in our everyday objects. The content and functionality prevails and materiality, and design, as a means of generating it, is forced to acknowledge its paradoxical counterpart.

So we could say the models proposed by the likes of Baudrillard, is driving mankind to think, more than ever, in ontological terms and that it’s been reflected in the way objects and functions will manifest themselves more ethereally in the future.

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