Future Scenarios of Everyday Objects

Future Scenarios of Everyday Objects

This active workshop introduces three novel, expressive tools as catalysts for re-imagining everyday objects. We seek eclectic, adventurous participants to playfully envision, prototype, and re-present familiar objects imbued with tangible behaviors.

Register before September 21st !

artists • designers • technologists • playful people

~ we are seeking an eclectic group of 12 participants ~


to sign up: send us a 150 word (max) message describing:

• your background
• what attracts you to this workshop
  
• an example of an everyday object that intrigues you

~ early registration deadline for workshop attendees
now extended to 4th of September 2009 ~


sign up by September 2nd and receive notification of acceptance by September 3rd

This is not advertised on the C&C website, but workshop registrants will still be able
to register with an early registration discount until 4th September 2009

Everyday objects glean their patina of "everydayness" through habituated, patterned, and comfortable use. As we touch, watch, listen, or move them, their particular physical qualities guide our fluid interactions with them. A tacit knowledge of what we can anticipate amplifies our conception of them as ordinary things. What happens when we shift our modes of sensory interaction to re-imagine these everyday objects? In this workshop we will transform ordinary things into objects with sonic voices, visual memories, and animated surfaces. As we explore how they activate our creativity and expand our conception of the everyday, we hope to bring together artists, technologist, designers, and other playful people to transform ordinary things and re-imagine future scenarios of the everyday.

This active workshop introduces three novel, expressive tools as catalysts for re-imagining everyday objects. We seek eclectic, adventurous participants to playfully envision, prototype, and re-present familiar objects imbued with tangible behaviors.