Talk:
Bodily Experiences of the Digital
Thursday
How our body treats digital information like physical stuff, information consumption like food consumption, and technical devices like social, living beings.
For many people, the digital world is still hard to grasp. It leaves us cognitively overwhelmed, and bodily unchallenged.
In this session Fabian will develop how our experience of the digital world is metaphorically physical and impacts on our body.
He will demonstrate ways to make us physically embrace the digital world through industrial and interaction design - by giving life to objects based on their digital presence.
Finally, he will raise the fundamental question of whether we want devices that are behaving like humans, or - worse - humans that are becoming robots.
Fabian Hemmert
PhD Candidate and Researcher
Design Research Lab
Berlin, Germany
Inventor, PhD student and TED speaker on shape-changing mobile phones of the future.
Young researcher, Fabian has nevertheless an impressive record, as he’s already worked for Nintendo Europe et Marvel Comics. His performance talks have been noticed and much commented on during SXSW 2012 & 2013 and TEDxBerlin, especially the one devoted to shape-shifiting cell phones. Fascinated with the non-visual communication techniques, he explores the impact of feeling, weight, touch and movement. He is now a guest professor for Interface Design at Kunsthochschule Muthesius In Kiel, Germany.
