[Music]
when I was a young boy I wanted to
become a magician because I was
fascinated with the idea here you see me
in my parents living room I was
fascinated with that idea of doing the
impossible and creating something out of
nothing it didn’t work out I’m not a
magician but when I was a young boy I
had a plan B and that was becoming an
explorer like most of you I’m driven by
curiosity and I was fascinated with the
idea of seeing the world as a place of
endless discovery it also didn’t work
out I’m not an explorer what would be
better than being a magician or an
explorer in both at the same time and
quite surprisingly it did work out for
me because I’m a design researcher what
does that mean well design research is
if that is the cause of history and we
are here and design research is
inventing things from the future and
building them so people can touch them
and try them out and give them to people
here and now and ask them it’s that kind
of future you want to live it or not
that’s design research it’s a lot of fun
and the topic of my research is our
relationship to technology my
relationship to my phone is pretty
complicated you know it’s a fantastic
device it helps me to do many things
easy and quickly and everywhere that’s
great but it also puts me into kind of a
zombie mode you know a zombie is a human
being but without conscious
section of itself and of the world
around it and that is what the phone
does to me I think we have to learn to
let go and free ourselves from these
devices thank you yeah thank you but the
problem is I could never do that to my
real phone and that’s what I mean with
complicated relationship to technology
so what happens if we look to the future
I’m a designer
so I allowed myself to bring you a
picture of the futures computer what
will it’ll look like I’m sure that
picture first there it is
nothing what will happen nothing you
know the computer of the future is not
really nothing but it’s going to
disappear from what we see because it’s
going to be everywhere every carpet
every t-shirt every jacket will probably
have something a computer in there maybe
even the word computer or smart that the
objective we use will disappear because
we don’t say color TV anymore it makes
no sense every TV does color maybe when
everything is smart
you just don’t add that information but
isn’t that a dangerous combination
today’s relationships technology very
cramped with tomorrow’s computer that is
everywhere could be I think we’re going
to need a lot of good design to make
sure that our future interactions with
technology are shaped and let’s say
human friendly ways and today I’ve
brought three of my students projects
which I think are good examples the
first one is about us being in control
this project is by Lise Bradford and Liz
designed a conceptual device it is a
dimmable artificial intelligence
so it’s an artificial intelligence that
you work with it’s like a co-worker but
you can tune it and it’s smartness so
you can turn it down to two level then
it’s not so smart it just that’s what
you tell it you can also turn it up a
little bit and it’s like an assistant
but it’s not a level you can also turn
that artificial intelligence to coworker
neva or even to autopilot so you just
take the responsibility it does the work
of course you can also set it into kind
of overdrive mode we call this tyrannic
boss and I don’t know you can also turn
it off that’s also very important I
think I like this project because yeah
we humans stay in control the second
project is by Felix fast Mahad
Felix designed a supermarket checkout
counter that helps us to be responsible
so what did you do you go to the
checkout and you scan all the things you
want to buy and it gives you a brief
flash-forward of what is going to happen
to our world when you buy these things
now that’s pretty easy to ignore because
only brief flash-forward
however what’s hard to ignore is the
receipt because on the receipt you will
get a detailed list like to the kilogram
how much co2 is blown to the atmosphere
for these things how much child labor
are you supporting with your purchase
and the question is well yeah it is like
that right
do we want to sign it or not Thank You
and what I like about this project is
the computer does not take away from us
the important and tough part and that is
the decision do we want this or not and
then we have to act on it the third
project speci Bastion Kaiser and shows
us that through design technology can
actually help us to do more with each
other not less let me show you the
project the game it’s very low-tech
called snap chains it works on a tweet
chat and the busting just designed the
rule and the rule is if you manage to
take a photo of somebody else and post
it to the group chat and if that person
doesn’t take a photo back you get a
point
yeah really cool I really like it
because it’s you know technology doesn’t
have to get in between people it can
also enrich what we do with each other I
think that’s good news I think all that
we need for this is creativity well you
could say that it has never been easier
for a good idea to become a reality
these days because the tools are getting
better and we have things like
Kickstarter crowdfunding and we have
places like Ted these are good days for
good ideas thanks to technology at the
same time it has you can also say that
never been harder for us to have a good
idea and I think that is a side effect
of technology let me show you what I
mean let’s do a little experiment your
task now I brought my stopwatch here is
to count from one to ten loud and as
what that was slow and you ended up at
seven okay you got the idea right two
seconds in total now letters from A to G
ready set go
perfect throw total five seconds okay so
that was single tasking now technology
often lures us into multitasking do one
thing while you do something else
let’s try multitasking a1 b2 and so on
okay yeah thank you thank you ah I think
that’s a problem
because I mean just imagine trying to to
mix thinking creatively about a problem
whatever it is and mix that with
answering your email it cannot work it
can only fair and that’s why I think
that we have to protect our creativity
from the side effects of technology to
show you what we are protecting what it
is I would like to take you on a little
journey everybody here and if you’re
watching this online please close your
eyes and imagine a key a key in your
hand look at it what is the material
what is the shape it’s your key and now
imagine a door it’s a locked door and
look at it what is what is the size of
the door what is the what does it feel
like when you touch it what sound would
it make if you opened it now fit in the
key you will see it fits in perfectly
and now you can open the door and behind
it you’ll find a room it’s a room that
you’ve never been to before take a look
around it has many other doors just like
the one you came through what’s the
atmosphere in that room like what is the
smell in the air what is the light like
it’s a very special room and in the
middle of that room you will find a gift
box the present the present for you it’s
wrapped you can’t look inside yet but
maybe you know you can look at the shape
you can ask yourself who put it there
and what could be in there if you move
it a little bit does it make a sound huh
now open the box and in there you will
find properly just what you expect it to
be in there but take a second to look
there is another box in there
and that one slowly open it contains
something which you didn’t even know it
existed
hmm you just invented something that is
how every idea that any human has ever
had has come into being it’s human
creativity let’s open our eyes to the
power of sometimes closing them thank
you thank you
[Music] [Applause]
when I was a young boy I wanted to
become a magician because I was
fascinated with the idea here you see me
in my parents living room I was
fascinated with that idea of doing the
impossible and creating something out of
nothing it didn’t work out I’m not a
magician but when I was a young boy I
had a plan B and that was becoming an
explorer like most of you I’m driven by
curiosity and I was fascinated with the
idea of seeing the world as a place of
endless discovery it also didn’t work
out I’m not an explorer what would be
better than being a magician or an
explorer in both at the same time and
quite surprisingly it did work out for
me because I’m a design researcher what
does that mean well design research is
if that is the cause of history and we
are here and design research is
inventing things from the future and
building them so people can touch them
and try them out and give them to people
here and now and ask them it’s that kind
of future you want to live it or not
that’s design research it’s a lot of fun
and the topic of my research is our
relationship to technology my
relationship to my phone is pretty
complicated you know it’s a fantastic
device it helps me to do many things
easy and quickly and everywhere that’s
great but it also puts me into kind of a
zombie mode you know a zombie is a human
being but without conscious
section of itself and of the world
around it and that is what the phone
does to me I think we have to learn to
let go and free ourselves from these
devices thank you yeah thank you but the
problem is I could never do that to my
real phone and that’s what I mean with
complicated relationship to technology
so what happens if we look to the future
I’m a designer
so I allowed myself to bring you a
picture of the futures computer what
will it’ll look like I’m sure that
picture first there it is
nothing what will happen nothing you
know the computer of the future is not
really nothing but it’s going to
disappear from what we see because it’s
going to be everywhere every carpet
every t-shirt every jacket will probably
have something a computer in there maybe
even the word computer or smart that the
objective we use will disappear because
we don’t say color TV anymore it makes
no sense every TV does color maybe when
everything is smart
you just don’t add that information but
isn’t that a dangerous combination
today’s relationships technology very
cramped with tomorrow’s computer that is
everywhere could be I think we’re going
to need a lot of good design to make
sure that our future interactions with
technology are shaped and let’s say
human friendly ways and today I’ve
brought three of my students projects
which I think are good examples the
first one is about us being in control
this project is by Lise Bradford and Liz
designed a conceptual device it is a
dimmable artificial intelligence
so it’s an artificial intelligence that
you work with it’s like a co-worker but
you can tune it and it’s smartness so
you can turn it down to two level then
it’s not so smart it just that’s what
you tell it you can also turn it up a
little bit and it’s like an assistant
but it’s not a level you can also turn
that artificial intelligence to coworker
neva or even to autopilot so you just
take the responsibility it does the work
of course you can also set it into kind
of overdrive mode we call this tyrannic
boss and I don’t know you can also turn
it off that’s also very important I
think I like this project because yeah
we humans stay in control the second
project is by Felix fast Mahad
Felix designed a supermarket checkout
counter that helps us to be responsible
so what did you do you go to the
checkout and you scan all the things you
want to buy and it gives you a brief
flash-forward of what is going to happen
to our world when you buy these things
now that’s pretty easy to ignore because
only brief flash-forward
however what’s hard to ignore is the
receipt because on the receipt you will
get a detailed list like to the kilogram
how much co2 is blown to the atmosphere
for these things how much child labor
are you supporting with your purchase
and the question is well yeah it is like
that right
do we want to sign it or not Thank You
and what I like about this project is
the computer does not take away from us
the important and tough part and that is
the decision do we want this or not and
then we have to act on it the third
project speci Bastion Kaiser and shows
us that through design technology can
actually help us to do more with each
other not less let me show you the
project the game it’s very low-tech
called snap chains it works on a tweet
chat and the busting just designed the
rule and the rule is if you manage to
take a photo of somebody else and post
it to the group chat and if that person
doesn’t take a photo back you get a
point
yeah really cool I really like it
because it’s you know technology doesn’t
have to get in between people it can
also enrich what we do with each other I
think that’s good news I think all that
we need for this is creativity well you
could say that it has never been easier
for a good idea to become a reality
these days because the tools are getting
better and we have things like
Kickstarter crowdfunding and we have
places like Ted these are good days for
good ideas thanks to technology at the
same time it has you can also say that
never been harder for us to have a good
idea and I think that is a side effect
of technology let me show you what I
mean let’s do a little experiment your
task now I brought my stopwatch here is
to count from one to ten loud and as
what that was slow and you ended up at
seven okay you got the idea right two
seconds in total now letters from A to G
ready set go
perfect throw total five seconds okay so
that was single tasking now technology
often lures us into multitasking do one
thing while you do something else
let’s try multitasking a1 b2 and so on
okay yeah thank you thank you ah I think
that’s a problem
because I mean just imagine trying to to
mix thinking creatively about a problem
whatever it is and mix that with
answering your email it cannot work it
can only fair and that’s why I think
that we have to protect our creativity
from the side effects of technology to
show you what we are protecting what it
is I would like to take you on a little
journey everybody here and if you’re
watching this online please close your
eyes and imagine a key a key in your
hand look at it what is the material
what is the shape it’s your key and now
imagine a door it’s a locked door and
look at it what is what is the size of
the door what is the what does it feel
like when you touch it what sound would
it make if you opened it now fit in the
key you will see it fits in perfectly
and now you can open the door and behind
it you’ll find a room it’s a room that
you’ve never been to before take a look
around it has many other doors just like
the one you came through what’s the
atmosphere in that room like what is the
smell in the air what is the light like
it’s a very special room and in the
middle of that room you will find a gift
box the present the present for you it’s
wrapped you can’t look inside yet but
maybe you know you can look at the shape
you can ask yourself who put it there
and what could be in there if you move
it a little bit does it make a sound huh
now open the box and in there you will
find properly just what you expect it to
be in there but take a second to look
there is another box in there
and that one slowly open it contains
something which you didn’t even know it
existed
hmm you just invented something that is
how every idea that any human has ever
had has come into being it’s human
creativity let’s open our eyes to the
power of sometimes closing them thank
you thank you
[Music] [Applause]
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