For the last couple of years, I have been doing a master’s degree in philosophy and science for which I have carried out a final thesis (based on a theoretical-practical investigation) about the relationship of Art and Machine Learning. Since the human mind and therefore our artistic processes are intrinsic parts of biological matter, my hypothesis is […]
Read More HOLOBIONTia VR expo online now!We humans spend a great deal of time thinking about the future and analysing the past in order to act effectively according to our purposes… In 1985 Endel Tulving was the first cognitive neuroscientist to use the term “mental time travel” to describe the human capacity to imagine personal events from the past, as well as […]
Read More Futures Thinking: tomorrow can be designed today.What is the role of digital technology in the development of a new Smart, Sustainable and Creative City paradigm in a post-COVID19 era? If we take into account that the €140 billion from the historic EU Coronavirus recovery fund that Spain is getting does not establish any concrete reform, unless the money is destined for the green […]
Read More 7 ideas to (re)build our Smart, Sustainable and Creative cities in a post-COVID19 era.As we will see in this text, the career of artist and businessman Malcom Mclaren helps us to weave a network that connects us to the musical history of punk and hip hop, which shows us that both cultures are two sides of the same coin: inventiveness in the self-representation of young people in late […]
Read More Malcolm McLaren: THE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN.Inspired by the work of sociologist Richard Sennet, I’ll try to explain my approach to craftsmanship in contemporary use of digital tools, organizing work cyberspace, and thinking about inmaterial relationships with computer networks… In 1986 for my 10th birthday my parents gave me a Spectrum 48k computer and I spent hours and hours in my bedroom […]
Read More Craftsmanship in web & UX design…Due to the actual coronavirus pandemic we are all forced by the spanish government to stay at home at least for 2 weeks… Many of us do not only have to practice remote work, but also assist our sons and daughters in their emotional wellbeing and schoolwork. Since the educational system in this crisis has been unable to […]
Read More The virus that will make us all become knowmads.According to architect Neri Oxman the antidisciplinary hypothesis states that knowledge can no longer be produced within disciplinary boundaries, but is entirely entangled. According to Joichi Ito, director of MIT Media Lab, by picking up where cybernetics left off and by redirecting the development of modern design and science to an antidisciplinary approach a new kind […]
Read More An antidisciplinary approach to AI art.In the 1940s the austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter presented the concept of “Creative Destruction”, a way to explain the emergence of innovation through entrepreneurship. According to Schumpeter the hidden forces in the marketplace through the creativity of the entrepreneurs develop new consumers, products, and production methods which finally favor economic growth. Some years later in 1962 Everett […]
Read More Creative destruction for all!According to industrial designer Tim Brown, former CEO of consulting firm IDEO, Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that integrates the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success. The traditional role of design has been to improve the form and function of messages and information through a […]
Read More Strategy and Innovation with Design Thinking.“There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life. (…) some people are worried that it would mean playing God and going against nature. But it’s unnatural for us to accept the world as we find it. We would be going […]
Read More There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives.
