Interactive Institute’s new book is called “Static! Designing for Energy Awareness” and is published by Arvinius Förlag.
This book presents the design examples from a project called Static!, that was led by Interactive Institute and funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, as well as perspectives on issues in (sustainable) design today. Grounded in passion and humor, [...]
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New book release! “Static! Designing for Energy Awareness”
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Finissage in Berlin
Last weekend the exhibitions Visual Voltage and Visual Voltage Amplified celebrated a big finissage-party at Felleshuset in Berlin. Before everything was packed up and sent to Beijing, the next stop of Visual Voltage in April 2010, 150 guests followed the invitation of the Swedish Institute, Swedish Embassy and the hosts of the workshop [...]
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Visual Voltage - The Workshop, 22-23 January 2010
Through Design we can turn an invisible activity of energy consumption into a process that can be expierenced, thereby potentially altering awareness and leading to a change in behavior. Following this line of thought, the Visual Voltage exhibition presents a set of objects specially designed to help vistors reflect on how they consume energy.
To deepen [...]
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What if we were powered by batteries?
Sometimes it would be useful with an easier way of getting some extra energy. Especially when coming home after a long day at work. What if we could just plug in to the electricity outlet and skip the dinner?
We asked a associate professor Kjell Waltersson at Mälardalen University how much energy really is needed to [...]
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