"Slow Design is evident in every object, space or image that promotes the slowing of metabolism human in the economic, industrial and urban. "
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Slow Design not practical or recruitment, or excommunication, as has been underway in the vanguard of the last century.
Building on its platform slowlab , he opted instead for a collaborative strategy, bringing together actors from different fields (art, industry, humanities, applied sciences) who are actively involved in the speech training by their debates and practices.
is an open source movement ", like free software, which is enriched by the contribution of each contributor, through conferences, exhibitions, online sales platforms.
This horizontal movement structure explains the extreme diversity of approaches identified.
Here are two which show the extent of this diversity ...
Thorunn Arnadottir designer after the Icelandic Academy of Arts in Reykjavik, is located within a certain tradition of European design, as practice individual, in dialogue with art history and design. It invests very different media (products, performances and installations) to support his remarks on the subject.
Clock his diploma project is emblematic of a Slow design approach, which consists in representing the difference between the slow human metabolism and hyper-fast pace of the consumer society.
The clock is thus an object paradigm. It presents both sides of our modern societies: tails, symbol of the mastery of man over his environment and himself and face side, produced by a powerful anxiety-man architect of his own alienation. For if it is the source of many scientific discoveries, if it allows to organize human work, it is also, for these reasons themselves a source of stress that affects our societies since the worker to big boss.
The clock, as we know, has so far scored and a uniform time, but also produced the conditions of his immediate apprehension. Whence, indeed, whether we are capable of a quick glance to track us so precisely in time. In fact, the metric intériosation this time could be achieved through the extraordinary system of representation offered the position of the needles, and more recently through the digital representation of the time (liquid crystal, LED, .. .). The designers have also been unable to offer a better representation of time and are usually content to play with.
The originality of Clock is precisely not to do better, but do less well than the clock type. It consists of two parts, firstly the clockwork wall, the same as the clock type, and secondly a string of beads driven by it. Every 5 minutes a pearl drop notched plate and hits the previous bead. The cycle of day and night and materialized by a gradient of blue beads, while hours are indicated by red beads. The string of pearls can be worn as a pendant.
For Thorunn Arnadottir, Clock allows you to change the quality and speed of time. It is less accurate (unit: 5min), certainly less readable, but the existence of a rhythm more soothed, as shishi-odoshi, fountains of Japanese gardens. When worn as a pendant chain, it is litteraly the time it takes its time.
Thorunn Arnadottir Africa and evokes a different apprehension of time, made the relationship one has with others. His clock is "an island in a sea of slow speed" because it can not claim to unilaterally subsistuer our clocks, not the world as it is.
Design that Matters (Editor's note: the design that counts) is an NGO based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a collaborative network of several hundred people, professional experts in various fields, students from MIT, working to improve living conditions in developing countries through the design. Their goal is to reach 1 million people by 2012, through their various projects.
These are primarily engineers, who define themselves as expert advice to social entrepreneurs. Their commitment and their mode of action is reminiscent in many ways the movement Saint-Simonian obtained from the École Polytechnique in 19th century.
Their expertise in design extends to the field survey, through to production of the products until the formation of populations.
Among their many projects, the best known and best documented is called Kinkajou.
Sponsored by World Education, an NGO working in Mali, Kinkajou is a revolutionary tool for literacy adapted to the rural adult population, 75% illiterate. Under current conditions, adults wishing learn to read through evening classes, their progress slowed in the low illumination of classrooms (1 or 2 kerosene lamps for 40 people!) and the high cost of textbooks. The Kinkajou , named after a local animal nyctalopic is a projection system for projecting onto any surface an educational document among the 10,000 available on microfilm ... which costs only $ 12. It is manufactured using low cost components and powered by solar energy. It is currently being tested in 41 villages in Mali and allows access to reading more than 3000 people.
Sponsored by World Education, an NGO working in Mali, Kinkajou is a revolutionary tool for literacy adapted to the rural adult population, 75% illiterate. Under current conditions, adults wishing learn to read through evening classes, their progress slowed in the low illumination of classrooms (1 or 2 kerosene lamps for 40 people!) and the high cost of textbooks. The Kinkajou , named after a local animal nyctalopic is a projection system for projecting onto any surface an educational document among the 10,000 available on microfilm ... which costs only $ 12. It is manufactured using low cost components and powered by solar energy. It is currently being tested in 41 villages in Mali and allows access to reading more than 3000 people.
This is a design team (sometimes more than 100 people contribute on a project), immédiatemment efficient and pragmatic. By its willingness to bridge the gap between the north and south, to help the poor to provide for themselves, pulling them out only to the imperative of survival, Design that Matters is also part of the Slow Design movement.
Although far apart, their goals and their methods, Thorunn Arnadottir Design that Matters and share the same goal: the welfare of man and his environment.
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