a participatory monthly webzine focusing on the thinking, the work, and the people that bridge design, culture and technology
Senses
Issue #10 / January 2007
Smell, hearing, taste, sight and touch are our interface with "reality", our doors to feeling, moving and communicating: living, in one word. Read how five prominent practitioners in sense-related fields are exploring this infinite world through design, experimentation and simulation, employing their expertise and imagination to understand senses in new surprising ways.
Sensational.
Salt, pepper and touch
The catalan chef Ferran Adriá has been exploring since years the boundary between research, sensorial pleasure and cerebral stimulation in his creative cooking. Here you won't find any recipes (are these chefs the new alchimists?) but the philosophy that moves one of the most acclaimed and innovative authors of today's culture.
An interview with Ferran Adrià
The Whiffer, the Sniffer, and the Naked Chef
Smell. Everybody has always told this humble sense that it's got potential. David Harel might help him realize it.
An interview with Prof. David Harel
Do Not Touch...?
"...visiting a museum is a combination of your perceptions, the architectural space and the objects within it..."
An interview with Lauren Parker, Curator of V&A
Beyond the Senses
"People sometimes have preconceptions that are rather skeptical, but these are usually based on a lack of familiarity with the research", Caroline Watt introduce us to her psychological research regarding believes in the paranormal phenomena.
An interview with Caroline Watt by Crispin Jones
Gruppo A12: ...As Baumann says, we are living in a “liquid society”...
They have been around for about 15 years (quite a long time for the kind of things they do). Finally, we met some members of A12 group in order to talk about them & their work. An interesting conversation across art, architecture, time, senses and more...
An interview with Gruppo A12
what is cooking in the HotKitchen? What is idCAST? idCast is a product of idLab. idCast is woven together by EyalFried (editor), LineUlrikaChristiansen (manager), WalterAprile (technicalities).