Archive for January, 2010
Graham Pullin on disability and imagination
From an interview in Dwell magazine: Why do you think so few designers take up issues of universal design, or designing for disability? Is it a question of money, knowledge, a failure of the imagination? As we’re coming to money later, let’s talk about knowledge and imagination. Many of the designers I spoke with did [...]
read moreeric gunther’s “organorgan”
Eric Gunther’s OrganOrgan. His description: “OrganOrgan is a modular multichannel vibrotactile surface. The surface is made of twelve independently driven low frequency transducers and conforms to the shape of the sitter. It is a platform for the composition of organized vibrations for the body. A tactile symphony of gentle waves, rough bumps, and sharp jabs [...]
read morebraille-friendly banjo tabs
an adapted tab system for banjo players with visual impairments, via Tangier Sound
read morespeculative machinery (ongoing series)
I’m looking for collaborators to propose new tools—speculative machines—that invert or transform or exaggerate an adaptive aid that already exists. Here’s a first design:…
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