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Nicolas was, once again, in the train for two workshops about design ethnography and object repurposing: one in Paris at ENSAD<\/a>, and another one at the HKB<\/a> in Bern. The idea was to show students the value of this kind of field investigation by asking them to go observe how people repurpose objects in physical space. Giving the same brief to different students is interesting as it allows comparisons between the results and the different cultures (swiss german versus french). Nicolas also gave a talk about the game controller project at the HKB and animated a visit of the Playtime exhibit<\/a>. The rest of the week was devoted to writing a research grant about design ethnography and the game controller book!<\/p>\n

Fabien returned to his homebase in Barcelona and started plotting follow-up work on our network data initiative. Our engagements will range from strategic advisory and seminars to hands on work on urban data analysis and workshops. He dedicated the rest of the week polishing some key elements of the Quadrigram<\/a> visual programming language. He teamed-up with interaction designer Tim Stutts<\/a> to produce a brief 3-minutes video that explain how Quadrigram can reveal different dimension of a single dataset. We used real-time traffic information from our friends at BitCarrier<\/a> in that demo:<\/p>\n