Power (to the people) Cut The other day a power cut happened to a supermarket I was into. It was a weird experience, one of the things that you don’t expect to happen in a commercial place of a western world capital. People immediately started looking around, trying to make sense of the incident. There…
Mental Imagery I have always been fascinated by mental imagery, the ability of the mind to visualize images. Being fairly common amongst creative people, I had assumed that everybody can think in images (and other modalities, like sounds etc). Recently I found out this is not true; Aphantasia (from the Greek phantasia = imagination, a +…
Star(c)k Wars As a design student, I found exciting to discover the different design genres. Engineering design vs emotional design was the mother of all battles. If I were to sketch this again, I would draw two old guys reminiscing a masculine past that never actually mattered.
https://parisselinas.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Escalator-Video.mp4 The Post-human Escalator The escalator is a product and symbol of modernity, a glimpse into “Wall-E”esque, post-walk visions of society. But once again, futurists were proved wrong and we started walking on them. We walk faster and faster, an action that resembles a deliberate movement but is actually a drift in a shrinking present. The escalator…
Toll Door As told, I left the keys on the table before leaving my AirBnB flat. After a careful look, I closed the door behind me only to realise that there was an intermediate door that needed the same keys to open. Temporarily trapped in the tiny space between the two doors, I imagined this…
Tech-Rex Technology has been traditionally designed to augment human capabilities. Tech-Rex is a piece of technology for the species that once ruled the earth, an exoskeleton for what is now a skeleton. Tech-Rex satires human centrality and technological rationality. At least T-Rex is no longer sad.
Digital Economy In this Telegraph article, Dr Colin Byrne argues for a multi-tiered educational system. Under the harmless title “employers should help shoulder student tuition fees”, the author envisions a higher education adjusted to market demands: “I propose that universities should introduce new programmes that differ in their aims, content, breadth, depth and – critically – duration. Universities…