I found this TED talk video very interesting and initially posted on facebook group. Then Leo reminded me to post in on IxCulture (love the name) blog. And that reminded me of the famous quote we heard recently. So I thought posting it here would be particularly interesting.
Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming
There are couple of reasons why I find this video interesting. Shilo dreams of magic and technology and then combines her dreams to create fresh interactions (not novel by design, but by usage in given context). She goes on to exploit existing technology to create beautiful stories that not only include animation, personalization but also has some aspects of social (although not very great) and a drive to make kids interact with real world too.
Second reason I liked this video a lot is because of the way she looks super excited all the while she was presenting. I feel inspired and would try to learn a lot of her presentation traits. In the process I will make a lot of mistakes for sure, but I can count on all of you to help me on that.
Also, this video by Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling is also very fascinating particularly because of the choice of interactive medium (iPad) in this case. Although I think the current way he presented was not ‘beautiful’ but I really liked that he was switching the modes while telling the story. Using the tool to the best of its capability in the given context. I feel very soon we will have a solution that allows you to switch between multiple contexts within a session, so you don’t end up putting links inside the ppt, but create collections like on Pinterest and arrange things in order you want to present.
This post is not a critique from visual culture stand point, I need to do that as well but I’ll do that later. Let me know what you think.
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February 23, 2012 at 4:16 pm
jaredcrane
I saw a talk about storytelling. It was titled Aristotle’s Storytelling Framework for the Web.
This presenter was also really excited during his presentation. I really enjoyed how he took the idea of storytelling and broke it down into parts, he then gave some examples of how to apply it to the web.
I found the slideshare of his presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/fabriquenl/aristotles-storytelling-framework-for-the-web
February 23, 2012 at 5:00 pm
cmbuggs
I liked Shilos presentation. It reminded me of two different thoughts from our reading about Designers. First it made me think of Cross in the idea of “designing is not normal problem solving”. She could have become fixated on the problem but she was “solution-led” [pg100]. She wasnt passively watching the evolution of technology and its pending implications. She “reframed” the problem by juming in to desgn and incorperated Lowgren thoughts. He stated that we need to create “ideas tht are relevant, appropriate, and capable of beign realized, and at the same time are new and radical…this means that creativity has to be balanced with analytical thinking [pg52].
To me, her fears of what could be lost through “sitting at a PC” she transformed into new opportunity spaces through the use of protable technologies—I like this idea of analytical thinking being connected to fears.
February 26, 2012 at 9:59 pm
oppenlander
It was very easy to understand his presentation. I lol’d at the scene with the lederhosen.
Megan is doing her capstone on games – specifically within the context of narrative. Some games allow you to write in books that can be read by other players. I also find it interesting that throughout long periods of time, players will continually develop their own stories. I find it interesting that players can play the exact same game with the same content, but will have entirely different stories which they can still articulate years after playing the game.