{"id":8872,"date":"2013-02-14T08:31:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:14","slug":"curious-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2013\/02\/14\/curious-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious Rituals is a project about gestures, postures and rituals people adopt when using digital technologies. It&#8217;s both a book documenting gestures we observed, and a design fiction film that speculates about their evolution<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Los Angeles, USA<br \/>\n<strong>Years<\/strong>: Summer 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Leader<\/strong>: Nicolas Nova<br \/>\n<strong>Method<\/strong>: Ethnography and prototyping<br \/>\n<!--a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/projects\/curious-rituals\/cell-trance\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8498\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8498\" title=\"Cell-trance\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Cell-trance-494x330.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a--><br \/>\nCurious Rituals was a research project conducted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\">Art Center College of Design<\/a> (Pasadena) in July-August 2012 by <a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/\">Nicolas Nova<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\">The Near Future Laboratory<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/head.hesge.ch\/\">HEAD-Gen\u00e8ve<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostlyanimals.com\/\">Katherine Miyake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwonkwonkwon.com\/\">Nancy Kwon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/waltonchiu\/\">Walton Chiu<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/mdp\/\">media design program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/92328805?color=ff9933\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The project was about gestures, postures and digital rituals that typically emerged with the use of digital technologies (computers, mobile phones, sensors, robots, etc.): gestures such as recalibrating your smartphone doing an horizontal 8 sign with your hand, the swiping of wallet with RFID cards in public transports, etc. These practices can be seen as the results of a co-construction between technical\/physical constraints, contextual variables, designers intents and people&#8217;s understanding. We can see them as an intriguing focus of interest to envision the future of material culture.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project was to envision the future of gestures and rituals based on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A documentation of current digital gestures in a <a href=\"http:\/\/curiousrituals.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/curiousrituals-book.pdf\">book format<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The making of a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/48204264\">design fiction film<\/a> that speculate about their evolution<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Curious Rituals&#8221; was produced as part of a research residency in the Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious Rituals is a project about gestures, postures and rituals people adopt when using digital technologies. It&#8217;s both a book documenting gestures we observed, and a design fiction film that speculates about their evolution Location: Los Angeles, USA Years: Summer 2012 Leader: Nicolas Nova Method: Ethnography and prototyping Curious Rituals was a research project conducted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2013\/02\/14\/curious-rituals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curious Rituals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,49,50,92,95],"tags":[310,1188,516,1200,1210,1100,1124,1133],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Curious Rituals - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2013\/02\/14\/curious-rituals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Curious Rituals - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Curious Rituals is a project about gestures, postures and rituals people adopt when using digital technologies. 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