aesthetics

Slow Technology is a series of experiments done at the PLAY studio at the Interactive Institute 1999-2002

...to design for reflection

...slow technology can be technology where...

The paper DIFFICULT FORMS: CRITICAL PRACTICES OF DESIGN AND RESEARCH written by Ramia Mazé and Johan Redström has been accepted to the conference 'Emerging Trends in Design Research' that will be held November 12-15 in Hong Kong and organized by the International Association of Societies of Design Research 2007....

I am Design Director and Senior Researcher at the Interactive Institute in Sweden, and before that the Research Director of the Design Göteborg (RE:FORM) studio....

This studio is no longer active. Please visit Design Research Unit for current information.

Technology as Design Material...

'IT+Textiles' was a three-year design research program (2002-2005) led by Interactive Institute and Newmad Technologies in Sweden, where traditional textile design meets and, at least to some extent, falls in love with computational technology....

Increasing Energy Awareness in Everyday Life through Design

STATIC! is a research project at the Interactive Institute that investigates interaction and product design as a way of increasing our awareness of how we use energy in everyday life and how to stimulate changes in energy behaviour....