10.000 moving cities – same but different by Marc Lee, 2010is an installation piece with a variety of boxes which each have videos playing across their surfaces. These videos consist of many different things that happen in a city street. There are also sounds that play, that are the sounds of the city streets, music…

6 principle of design are balance, proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast and space. Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci (Balance/golden ratio) Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol (Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, Contrast) Now day, people more welcoming healthy slow food than fest food. Here is slow design that our life will be healthy. What is slow design? Design that is not…

Slow Design Principles              Karmen Franinovic is a Canadian architect that creates works of interactive technology and installs them in a public space to stimulate social interaction and bring awareness to peoples surroundings. One of her most interesting pieces is called Recycled Soundscape, and it is a system that explores…

Slow Design  By: Dziedzom A. Bansah The Slow Design movement has become popular. According to Fuad-Lake, Slow Design is “a new evaluative tool to encourage design practices to orientate towards social, cultural and environmental sustainability.” There are six principles that classify slow design projects.  The first principle of slow deign that I chose was reflect….

Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates is a good example of slow design in that it requires many active participants to evolve into something that could change the world. Edible Estates is the idea that in our front yards’ participants plant gardens instead of just grass. The idea is that we connect more with our environments. This…

Advanced technology is usually seen as something that is far off and incomprehensible, but many aspects of new media art bridges that gap. The slowLab conducted research and collected 6 principles of design projects. These principles include: To begin with, Chris Milk’s “The Treachery of Sanctuary” falls under the third principle, which is to reflect….

The principles of Slow Design can be applied in many facets of life, from artworks to large computer systems. The first project which displays some principles of Slow Design is the Philips Tea Maker (pictured above). This tea maker is a water kettle and tea pot in one. Once the water is done boiling, the…

1.       Reveal: Slow design reveals experiences in everyday life that are often missed or forgotten, including the materials and processes that can be easily overlooked in an artifact’s existence or creation. The first experience that came to mind that I feel is often overlooked by those who have lived in a place for a long…

Reveal Keith Obidake’s African Metropole: Sonic City Lagos reveals the sounds of Lagos, Nigeria, a bustling city full of commerce and soul. We often overlook the ambient sound of our own cities. Obidake reveals that there is beauty in the ambient sound of a city, and even of the unheard. He also records the acoustics…