DanFS | Design Interactions

The Design Interactions work in progress show 2010 is now open. Opening times are: 11am – 6pm Last day is 9th Feb. There is also some very good work from Animation, Architecture, Innovation Design Engineering, Printmaking and Vehicle Design. I have put some photos up on Flicker.

This would make following a haynes car manual a lot easier. More info

TinkerCall is computer-aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology. It is Open Source software that lets you design your own cells. I wonder how long it will be before there is CAD -> CAM for synthetic biology? TinkerCell Home (TinkerCell).

Cartagen. This looks like a really nice framework for dynamic mapping.

Just though I’d provide links to people on the Design Interactions course: KA FAI CHOY – www.ka5.info STEFFEN FIEDLER – www.steffenfiedler.com DANIEL FOSTER-SMITH – www.danfs.co.uk ILONA GAYNOR – www.ilonagaynor.co.uk KEVIN GRENNAN – www.kevingrennan.com EMILY HAYES MARGUERITE HUMEAU – www.margueritehumeau.com CHARLOTTE JARVIS – www.artforeating.co.uk GERRIT KAISER – gerritkaiser.de HORI KENTARO JONAS LOH -www.herrloh.de LISA MA MILAN [...]

I was recently thinking of submitting a project for the Medialab-Prado Visualizar workshop. It is a workshop that aims to facilitate the gathering of data and foster understanding from the collected data. The problem I see is that because the data is generally so individual it requires a unique presentation technique and any general presentation [...]

I have recently been looking at the ‘artificial’ environment mankind has created and what impacts and opportunities this new surrounding could invoke. One idea I have been working is how biology could adopt manmade infrastructure. I have been working in collaboration with Steffen Fiedler and James Field a synthetic biology master student at Imperial College [...]

Dissertation  Idea: We have evolved through different environments; initially we were water based organisms then adapted to living on land, all the way up to the most recent socially interacting human we have now become. But we have not evolved for one ‘set’ environment, the environment has been changing and we have ‘adapted’ to survive [...]

This project was looking at the idea that no ones opinion is right or wrong; people form beliefs based on their experiences, culture and inherited values. The misunderstanding of opinions often stems from the inability to see what has caused the other person to form their belief. If you could share you experiences perhaps people [...]

This model is designed to aid the decision making process of fisheries management.  It is a Flash application that allows you to outline different fishing activities and see what the likely impact is on the underlying habitats. A MapInfo file of the marine habitats can be loaded. Then different fishing activities can be proposed by [...]

I have recently been working on the Etiquette web crawler for the DI work in progress show.  This crawler assesses how polite a web-pages is based on a list of polite and rude words. It then locates the owner of the website and their geographic address using the Whois database and plots out the data [...]

Online communication creates an illusion of anonymity when it is actually often open for everyone to see and make judgment on. If this feeling of anonymity was removed and your online etiquette was highlighting for all to see would this change your behaviour? To attempt to answer this I have created an {e}Etiquette Crawler. The [...]

I’m eventually getting around to putting TREE on the web, just outlining what I want to do at the moment so any comments would be appreciated. And if you would like to get involved in any way drop me a email: hello@treecycle.info www.treecycle.info