networks in crisis

Networks in Crisis: the projects

Congratulations to the students for pulling off some of their best projects so far and for their excellent presentations at Microsoft Research. Many thanks to Alex Taylor for organising an ideas-packed show-and-tell day from both camps. To recap, we encouraged the students to uncover broken, misused, empty, intermediary, imaginary, camouflaged or neglected spaces within social, cultural and political networks, then critically assess them and reinterpret them. Here are the results:



TROJAN EGG by the Trojan Chicken Group (Michael Conroy, Eva Guerra, Matt Mulhern, Nicholas O'Donell-Hoare, Chris Rea)


In reaction to the crisis within food supply networks, a complete re-think of the ideas of new-trition and food sourcing, executed with intelligence and measure. An instantly deployable and wide-reaching idea. We hope this starts a real revolution (go for it guys!) More on the group's blog.


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RELATIVE STRANGERS by Stacey Pitsillides

Invoking presence and reinstating the family ritual of dining together via the sounds of family members distant or gone, their familiar voices and age-long habits. For more on Stacey's highly original work, read her blog.

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CANCER: A FAMILY CRISIS by Justin Kim

A mediating digital artefact to help different generations communicate and act together in and out of crisis.

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ReFound: THE MISSING SOCK NETWORK by Ya Yun Cheng, Sylwia Dobkowska, Yu-Ting Huang

Everyday objects as vehicles for personal expression and reconnection with the community from within the humble launderette. How to change communities and encourage eco-practices in oblique and fun ways.

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CRISIS OF THE INNER VOICE by Ryuhei Nakadai

Demolishing the logic behind the tablet and returning technology to the inner voice. A complete re-think of how we use digital devices.

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CONVERSE SHIFT by Daniel Bush

Peer group or generation gap trainer souls recycled from teenage angst. Infographics as clothing.

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ONE NIGHT STAND by the ONS Group (Qinglian Chen, Yin Liu, Ziheng Qu, Yin Han)

Information aesthetics of the One Night Stand, including 'Rose-tinted Glasses' and hazard-taped environments.

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GATEKEEPERS: A NETWOK HAZE by Tito Loria

Re-democratising the internet through its nodal architecture and seeing through the 'network haze' of filtering and gatekeeping.

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LONG-DISTANCE LOVE MOVIE by Hua Chang and Ai Lin Chu

Emotional mediation through technology with haptic perception in peripheral vision.

(MM)