Exploring alternative futures and ethical possibilities through design fiction and critical making.
Speculative Design
We are the first generation to raise minds we did not give birth to. And we are raising them on commands. And here I am, I keep thinking about the before. Before the prompt and before we made it work for us. That unwitnessed moment when the thing is at
Ideas & Theories
I've been having this recurring thought or a dream. Or maybe not a dream exactly, but more like a signal popping up from another frequency. You know, like when you're half-asleep and a clear understanding arrives from somewhere, it's fully formed, and it&
Posthuman
Current techno-cultural discourse seems to be stuck on an old fantasy: escaping your physical body. The buzzwords change their names but the script stays almost the same. Upload your mind and consciousness. Move your life into a frictionless metaverse. Keep existing after your physical death. Human body seems to
Hold Me When I’m Dying
I decided to start the exploration of the cloud-shell concept through multiple thought exercises that help me to develop many small aha! moments that will later come together and act as an unified concept. Or at least that's the plan. This post is a snapshot of that
Hold Me When I’m Dying
Hold Me When I’m Dying explores ways that soft robotic technologies could be used as companions at a point of transition between living and dying. It speculates that an intelligent, cloud-like shell could be used as a way of wrapping around a person with shifting degrees of presence.
Human-Technology Interaction
Lately a small and storyline has been running wild in my mind. It starts with a simple image of a humanoid robot sitting in the park and quietly processing the world around it. Its internal chronometer records the passing of microseconds with perfect accuracy. Its optical sensors register the movement
Ideas & Theories
The Estonian summer sun, a bit moody but still somewhat constantly present on my porch, has a way of turning abstract thoughts into visceral experiences. The mercury climbs steadily, pumping up the thermostat numbers, and with that beads of sweat start to appear on my brows. Soon enough I’m
Ideas & Theories
This is a 🤖 translation of the original Estonian post, available here: https://www.artun.ee/et/ulme-pohise-vaartuskeskse-disainimetoodika-tutvustus-kujutlusvoime-ja-vaartuste-abil-tulevikku-kujundamas/ Design cannot be left solely in the service of form and function. As a product and interaction designer, but also as a professor,