Computational Symbioses – Back to the Roots Humanity as a species is situated in a big system, the natural ecosystem. In the evolution of human kind, we developed technologies and with it tools in order to fulfil our needs and desires. Through scientific research, we found processes to develop materials in order to produce even …
Author Archives: Andreas Bütler
Bachelor Thesis Nightmare
When thinking about future projects it makes sense to not only set goals where one wants to go, but also think about scenarios that should be avoided. In the past class, we talked about what possible events of disappointment, as well as situations where my bachelor would not change anything. What would be a thing …
Bachelor Thesis Dream
Dreaming is a nice way to figure out expectations and setting big goals for the future. It is sometimes useful to think big, although these goals might not be fulfilled completely. In order to figure out what I want for my thesis, I imagined the optimal outcome of my thesis. Personal relevance I think the …
Topic Conversation
In the future, we have organic machines that all fulfil the same desired purpose but differ in its material and therefore lead to diverse “harvesting” of resources. I took this sentence, and with it all the connected topics I researched, as a base to discuss with others (non-designers). One of the persons was my mother …
Research Field Thesis
Since I started to think about the topic of my bachelor thesis my interest is lying in two very broad fields: Material and Nature. I am very fascinated by how humanity is able to take matter and form it according to its needs. Material always follows a certain use in order to form objects and …
Free Flow: Recap
In the last week, our class went to an atelier space near Zurich for two days, in order to make our first thoughts about our bachelor thesis topic. In these two days, we talked a lot, with lecturers (which could be eventually also our mentors for this project) but also with fellow students. In the …
Session 03 – Positioning
In order to express ones thoughts and share them with others, it makes sense to write them down, to bring them onto paper. If we look back in history, this has happened many times. The format of a manifesto seems to be a valid format when it comes to communicating new ideas and opinions. In …
Session 02 – Inter-Action
Living means doing actions. As soon as we’re doing something in our environment we’re not only acting in it, but also interacting with it. But what does the word “inter” add to the term, that describes our field of study. In the following paragraph, i want to think about, how others took action through interaction, …
Session 01 – What does it mean to take action?
The world is in constant movement and change – and so are we. As designers, influencing our surrounding can be seen as a main tool of our work. But how do we achieve change, what does it mean to take action? In our first meeting with my classmates of the fifth semester of interaction design, …
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Teaching
In our last session we talked about teaching. It is important to not only consume knowledge but also let others benefit of your skills. Today, every participant brought one skill to teach to other classmates. In my group (of four people) we taught each other several things: some words of the Hungarian language, a relaxation …
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