Design ethics

[>information design >design power: show the power of design advertising wrong stuff, show the power of infographics through several graphics interpreting the same data giving different results(maybe recursive on design ethics), several small projects spread in the internet (see the eye-coffemachine story).
>design ethics >design for all: machine that can check how much ethic in the work(make it good or simply say how much)
>photoshop: kind of WikiLeaks but with originals of photoshopped pictures]

Recycle design

Deepening in recycle design/open source/cultural centers area.

[>open source >new collaborative methods >programming >new design tools
>cultural center: with no building, physically moving from place to place, virtual and actual network, graphic design+programming+crafts
>recycle design: product design from rubbish, fashion redesign, computers dump(what do people throw away?)]

What do you recycle?
stuff that can be used many times
that you'll never use again
that you don't need anymore
crap
free stuff
stuff that you have in large amount

*Common internet dump?










What would happen if we had a digital dump?
Would people dig into it like they do in other design fields?



































Could be interesting to actually build a common internet repository for digital garbage, and see what people would do with that.

From this point some questions:
How far should I go once I have the repository?
- Shall I analyze the data?
(it would be nice to analyze the people's garbage and visualize it)
- Shall I do something with the files I’ll get?
(I could try to do something with the files, building myself a creative process after them)

Personal analisys

I just found this application called Daytum that allows you to analyze your activities, time's data quantity and quality that should give a different perspective on the selected issue.
At the same way it can be seen as a time analyzer too, and as a tool to change your self-consideration and visualization of time. For the moment I'm trying this out just in order to see how different it is thinking about the day.
I find very interesting the information graphic wave that made many designers expressing themselves through "life-visualizations", one of my favorite are Nicholas Felton's ones which are probably also the first ones I've seen around in 2006.
You can monitorize his freak analisys through daytum too.

Time planning/personal visualization

This map is the enlarged version of the first one, where I elaborate on the branch about time and visualization.
[> time/planning analysis : how people visualize time in their minds, questionnaire/icastic drawings collection
>personal visualization: chandler project, daytum, feltron eight, count the lenght of email in personal mail account and professional ones, see in both how many times there's a replay]

I've found myself fascinated by the idea that our mental visualization of things, specially abstract things like time, has to be different for each of us. Of course it should be connected with common visualizations and environments, for sure it has something to do with what we are used to see as the visualization of the object in question, but it must be also very unique since it's something we never really share or communicate with others.














I didn't find much about the issue yet, apparently it is something connected with cognitive psychology (I'll try to dig in the book "Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences" by Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi), but this collection of drawings from people trying to express their inner idea of time is amazingly surprising.


"La Stampa" Imagery: we can see without eyes
The research about the brain function of imagery has developed just recently, and it mainly focuses on whether this activity, that is often explained using words that are connected with the eyesight, is actually connected with visual perception or can be treated as a function by itself, more related to memory processes of inner reconstruction.
Studying the relation between the sight and imagery, and imagery in blind from the birth people, it seems possible that our ability to see is actually not necessary for mental images.

Interests map

First overview.