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…“The kind of reflection that artistic research is, the contingent perspectives it delivers, its performative power, and the realism it brings to bear– all these make artistic research into a distinctive instrument that will not readily conform to the established mores and conventions in the more traditional academic world. This is the fundamental uneasiness and […]
Read More Artistic research is embodied knowledge.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.In 2015 researchers in Stanford University showed that Trail Running can literally change your brain for good. The study found that participants who exercised in nature not only reported a decrease in rumination (that relentless cycle of negative thoughts and anxiousness that increases the risk of depression), but fMRI scans also indicated a decrease in neural […]
Read More Hohkep: running and training in nature.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.“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature -the qualities of space and time- in new perceptual and material form. Art is an end in itself, its values are in- trinsic. Technology is the […]
Read More Art and technology are not separate realms.According to british writer Paul Mason over the past two centuries capitalism has undergone continual changes but now thanks to information technology it has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new. Already in 1993, Peter Drucker outlined a similar evolution in his book “Post-Capitalist Society”. In this new world, which would be […]
Read More Flowing to a post-capitalist world…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 the definition published in Tate Modern’s website “Abstract Art” is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality. As art historian and MoMA director Alfred H. Barr Jr. wrote in the preface to the catalogue “Cubism and Abstract […]
Read More Abstract art as an emancipatory activity.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.
