onomatopoeia | pia ednie-brown + design research practice

Such artful critique.

I was very excited today to receive a large envelope in the mail today containing (inside a thick, back plastic pocket) a set of Lisa Benson’s ‘disappearing drawings’. I met Lisa recently at a symposium discussion at RMIT, and she offered to send me some. If you don’t know her work, here is an article [...]

Here are some examples of articles/texts that address the conflation or relationship between design and innovation (I will keep adding to this):
John Thackara’s ‘In the Bubble. Designing for a Complex World’
Business Week, Innovation vs. Design
‘Getting Schooled in Innovation’, Business Week, Jan 3, 2005
“When people talked about innovation in the ’90s, they really meant [...]

Just about everything I’ve been doing lately is being registered on the other blog:
Plastic Futures

On Monday we enter into a 5 day intensive workshop in the ‘digital wet laboratories’ in the School of Applied Science (Biosciences) at RMIT. The workshop is run by Oron Catts and Greg Cozens, of SymbioticA.
The workshop is an introduction to biological techniques and issues surrounding the manipulation of living systems. Artists, designers and researchers [...]

In September this year, I attended and presented at the SEAM symposium, convened by Samantha Spurr, Margie Medlin, and Benedict Anderson and held at the very lovely venue of Critical Path. This symposium was beautifully crafted and put together with a great deal of care. It was one of those conferences that you remember in [...]

Latest project was the SymbioticA workshop we held at RMIT.
This is covered, and will increasingly be covered in my other blog: Plastic Futures

This weekend saw a leap in the development of a lamp shade I have been playing with for a while. Actually, it’s the cable tie fabric produced by Doris Dopfer that you can read about and see more of in the Plastic Green book, that will be available soon. For an exhibition we did in [...]

This week, I am visiting Lake Clifton, south of Perth and in the vicinity of Mandurah, reportedly the fasted growing city in Australia. Lake Clifton is also contains a roughly 6km long colony of thromobilites, a form of microbialite or growing rock-formations. Microbialites are the oldest known fossils, dating back to 3.5 billion years or [...]

Plastic Futures seminar entered phase earlier this week, which means we are moving more heavily into the designing of future scenarios. This is involving imagining ourselves in 2049, when we are much more elderly and working through design ideas about that period to explore and unfold potential futures, based on knowledge we can garner both [...]

My latest research seminar, Plastic Futures, starts this week. The blog, in its embryonic form, has been set up. It can be found here, and the poster can be downloaded as well: plastic futures poster

Latest idea of seminar 09 title.