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Being Here: Presence and Trust

On this study-site 44 authors contribute reflections and experience on how a world full of media changes our lives. Technology faciliates new ways of being present and as result new ways of establishing trust and truth emerge. Accepting repsonsibiity in network environments is c0mplex. Being witness and bearing witness, fundamental to social structures, are challenged. What actually happens when one is witness to another? Artists, academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines, address these issues by reflecting on their own practice. Their gathered reflections are an environment in which now design workshops take place. To be able to enjoy this research environment, one needs to take time. ... Read more...

Perception

  • Anna Carlgren –

    How a graphic pattern cut in safety glass can draw forth a smile. In our day-to-day lives most of us normally don't particularly…

  • Kadir van Lohuizen

    Kadir van Lohuizen –

    At 3am at night a hundred Iraqi and American special forces attack the house in Tal Afar, a city in the north of Iraq not far from…

  • Zoro Feigl 2

    Zoro Feigl –

    Time plays another role in the work, though in a less noticeable way. My work wears quickly. It tends to break, wear out, or stop…

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Witnessing

  • Luna Maurer

    Laptop Reflections

    An installation by Conditional Design for Infodecodata at the Graphic Design Museum Breda

    Luna Maurer –

    Conditional Design are Luna Maurer, Edo Paulus, Jonathan Puckey and Roel Wouters. All four of us are working with their laptops on a…

  • Afaina de Jong / AFARAI 1

    Afaina de Jong / AFARAI –

    The experience of space happens in the moment. Only without thoughts and sense of time one has the ability to actually experience…

  • Chin-Lien Chen, Chris Vermaas

    Chin-Lien Chen, Chris Vermaas –

    Self-witnessing is vital to human social interaction, so what happen when a designer fails to witness his/her own presence? And for…

  • Martin Butler 1

    How to make strangers smile?

    4th of june in the milan metro

    Martin Butler –

    It was a typical over heated, frustrated 2.30pm on a very warm and over crowded milan metro, people minding their own business, old…

  • Ronald Ophuis –

    The testimonies may be fictitious but the sentiments we have experienced are not. As a means to call up emotions they are not…

  • experience, description, concept, practice: Caroline Nevejan

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    CN –

    Zwarts & Jansma have made a lot of sports buildings but actually, according to Jansma, a soccer stadium is a very silly building…

  • Reactions of participants: At the touching moment that their faces are unveiled into the light, and after re-adapting to being…

Workshops Mediating Presence

  • Charlie Gullström

    Charlie Gullström –

    Our ICT Labs experience lab, the Presence Lab is located in a disused reactor hall on KTH campus and offers a 24x12x12 m underground…

  • Caroline Nevejan, Charlie Gullström

    CN, Charlie Gullström –

    The research in the Mediating Presence programme of ICT Labs builds on previous research conducted over the last 4 years. Here you…