2008/2009 Academic Year Metadesign Rappresentation and Communication of the Project System Zoomers Newspaper Giuseppe Farina 733962 Lauri Kerola 726321 Maria Lo Bello 735565 Avnish Metha 737034 Sogand Nobahar 737021
Politecnico di Milano PSSD_Product Sercice System Design
Where is socializing heading now?
Where is the socializing heading now? Socializing belongs to human nature. We have always been socializing. It is an important aspect of personal physical as well as mental health. In the last century man invented numerous devices to reach to other people more quickly. And then finally internet came to life. This was a revolution in socializing. People make friends, create groups, communities, and share information at the speed of thought. Internet has changed the way we socialize. Socializing on the Internet is about sharing. People can share sounds, videos and pictures. Posting comments is becoming our regular practice to communicate both our physical and virtual world. Sharing is one big and growing trend on the field of socializing. When understood deeply, it has roots in the ecological idea of sustainability. We can use social networks and platforms also to share our resources and become more responsible towards their use and towards Nature. Today, new ways to socialize are invented almost daily, so the world is becoming a smaller place.
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Sharingology Today is not only an action but a philosophy: to share what is yours is a way to react to everything is going bad in the world, from the environmental problems to the economic troubles. It also helps people to get in touch, giving a new chance for socializing: photo-sharing, carsharing,bike-sharing, this list could be endless. M.L
Video Calls
Two guys video called to their common friend from soccer game by using a mobile phone. There was a front camera, so they didn’t need to flip phone upside down so they were able to see their friend at same time. L.K.
Internet Safety Presentation for Parents Meeting and presentation for the parents to prevent them from having access to their children, social networking sites such as facebook, Myspace etc, and common scams that take place on the computer. S.N.
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A new way of promoting a music album using the bluetooth technology, that allow people get in touch with the others without having their numbers or even knowing them. G.F.
Virtual “Pooja” Worship or Offerings to god made available through Internet where you can click to pray virtually or ask an agency to do it in real at your selected temple. A.M.
Intra-Body Communication Intra-Body Communication can use the human body to transmit high-volume data such as video and music. The video on the monitor in the picture below is going right through the woman from her hand to the glasses and out to the monitor!
Bluetooth Advertising
DinnerInTheSky You can have your dinner 50 metres from the ground, sitting around a table hanged in the air. Maybe is not for everyone, but it’s certainly a new experience to ejoy with your friends. M.L
Love Light Party Wear the necklace and switch on the light with your colour: green if you are free, or red if you are in love, and now search other people you want to meet. G.F.
Ahmedabad Encounter
Psp Consoles with Wi-Fi
Common people were asked to participate along with artists and art-design students to put up installations on traffic circles or public spaces of the city. A.M.
Two boys around the age of twelve or thirteen were playing against each other using Wi-Fi connection with Sony PSP consoles on the underground, yellow line from Maciachini to San Donato. L.K.
Guitar Hero
Avoiding danger when socializing
A fake and plastic guitar can make you feel like a rocker, and you can share this feeling with all the friends that love rock music like you playing all together.
In London, a study found that one in ten mobile phone users has hurt themselves by walking into things while texting; the Daily Express says six million Britons were injured last year. To prevent this, The Charity Living Streets and directory service 118118 are testing the padding of lamposts and signs to stop the carnage. They suggest that perhaps an automatic message could be broadcast from each pole.
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Virtual Gifts
Child life communication
Now it’s a common thing on social network websites. People socialize by sending virtual gifts to each other. More than emoticons they are promoted as ‘gifts’.
Todomodo Cafè Nice cafeteria in Milan where you can paste on the wall every kind of message you want. There are lots of drawing, love message and request.
This device lets children in Firechief’s Treehouses, Crow’s Nest Treehouses, and Summit play systems talk and listen to playmates at ground level. S.N.
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Jacket to get contact with people It’s jacket for lonely or bored people by young finnish designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin. It is designed to help the wearer to get in contact with others. Since we brush against each other every day as we move around in the city, we can use our clothes as a medium for meeting people and communicating with them.
Bike Polo
Prayer Box NY
Bicycling people have started meet at Milan and other cities at public spaces for playing polo by bikes. Only bat and bike needed.
Everyone who’s thinking that the old public phone-box are useless is wrong... now, without phone and coins you can talk directly to God, wherever you are.
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The jacket is made out of Velcro strips of different widths that have been sewn together side by side to form alternating hook and pile stripes. When these materials touch each other, they grab onto each other. The lone ly user can be happily connected with other loners simply by walking around in the jacket. L.K.
Venice Architect Biennale ure 2008
Idea Camp People from the city are on invitation to discuss and brainstorm for new businesses and networking of people by providing a platform to the commons to become a part of their solution provider of their city needs. A.M.
Starbucks
Bunch Map
Though here coffee is a rite and a tradition, Italians miss a place where to have a cappucino, read a book or navigate on internet, even if in the rest of Europe places like this are very common. M.L
Social Network in which you can write where are you going to go and can meet other people going to the same place. (www.bunchmap.com) G.F.
Bryant Park Equipped with wine and other beverages, people waited in Bryant Park for a movie to start. Free events throughout New York can be hot spots for people to meet and drink in the summertime. S.N.
Game on airplane
Shared Music Experiences
If you are travelling by air for long distance, surely your seating place will be provided of a screen in order to have fun with films or games. An interesting thing is that you can decide to play against other people that you don’t know on the same plane, you need only to select the seat’s number of your opponent and challenge him in a fight to the death with your favourite game.
Group of girls were listening iPods together while waiting for the movie in the front of the movie theatre called Odeon. There were every two girls listening one iPod by using in-ear headphones together.
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Container Art Art installations in an industrial container and Mini Cooper vehicle brought to public spaces with the objective to bring art ‘to people’. The mobile container ‘Mini’ could be requested at your place for show, while the container initiates socializing.
Mobile phone Workshop
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It’s a dutch workshop where teenagers teach to elder people how to use the last generation phone... the situation is turned upside down, now the knowledge is in younger’s hands! M.L
Vegetable sharing To guarantee financial support to the local farms, people purchase a share of the harvest in the spring and in return receive a weekly supply of fresh seasonal vegetables. It is also an opportunity for a community to develop a sense of place. M.L
On-line Forum
Dancing Shoes
The only thing you need is an account, and than you can be part of a social forum about your favourite topic. Here you can exchange your knowledge, your passion, and meet other people G.F.
Dancing shoes also by young finnish designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin. Fanny shoes for the social relationships of the father and the daughter.
Play miniature golf on Governors Island. It is a nine-hole mini golf course in New York that is free and open to the public. Each hole has been conceived, constructed and installed by a different artist or groups, all variations on the theme “City of Dreams”.
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Emo generation Black air, dark makeup even for boys: that’s teenagers new generation. They are growing with this new kind of music called “emo”( from emotional) that is like a melodic-pop, and they meet in Duomo in Milan and in Piazza del Popolo in Rome. Even if everybody seems to hate them for theyr style and impudence, they keep on multiply. M.L
Social Lending milanofixed.com ‘Zopa.com’ is a marketplace where people lend and borrow money to and from each other, sidestepping the banks. A.M.
Bicycle messengers and other bike fanatics in Milano use the blog for sharing information about events and meetings, bikes and parts for sell and things like “somebody stole my bike, it looks like this, if you see it lock it, please!”. L.K.
Vote/Poll through any medium
Many Indian publications, TV, websites and other communication channels ask for vote to know the public opinion on issues of public to personal content. A.M.
Inter-Cultural socializing
Private bathroom
Intercultural students chopsticks race at a party… this way close the people from different country without shy, problem or behavior….
A nice way to communicate in a house where the flatmates leaves in different hours of the day. Pasting message on the wall as an indirect socializing. G.F.
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Bluetooth connection Bluetooth technology let you get in touch with other people that are near you. You don’t need to have the phone’s number or to know these people; you need only to be quite near them and switch on the Bluetooth.
Gatehring and party in Iran
Now you can share your music, photographs and messages with the others and start meeting them.
In Iran young people don’t have places where to go at the weekends and it’s even illegal go to parties. So young people gather together every weekend at somebody’s home for meeting new people, dancing, eating and having fun.
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On-line prayers It seems a scene from “Bruce Almighty”, but is not only a way to reach God, but a blog where you can post your prayer and anyone can decide to pray with you and share their feelings. M.L
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Seva Cafè A ‘pay what you like’ restaurant in a posh public place in Ahmedabad allows people to socialize in a restaurant without worrying about the price of food. One can volunteer to work for them too. A.M.
Car Park Dating
Baby Loves Disco
At the parking lot of Virgin Media UK there are painted car parks to let workers socialize funny way with one another. By Headline Design company. L.K.
@ tutte le mattine
Are you shy? You don’t khow how to explain your feeling to someone? You can send a message, even anonymous, to the free press that will publish it. G.F.
PIC pronto intervento clown
(BLD USA)
The party will feature tiny dancers in two categories: infant to 3 years old and 4-7 years old. Everyone’s a winner at BLD USA, and every participant will go home with prizes and goodies. Thousands of kids on club dance floors across the country, shaking their booties and having fun with family and friends.
(clown emergency service)
The Clown Emergency Service is a car with three clowns on board that could appear in Milano’s streets in every moment, to solve the situation with smiles when serious speech are not enough. M.L
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Transliteration
Couch Surfing
The practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules much in use at cross-lingual communication.
Community for the people how want to offer their coach for travellers and get change to sleep on the others couches around the world. Both visiting and hosting.
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iPod Touch with Wi-Fi
Internet dating sites just for people with STDs
At a coffee bar, where was Wi-Fi connection available for the customers, man age around 30 updated his Facebook profile (what he’s doing at the moment) by using Apple’s iPod Touch music player which offers wireless access to the web.
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(sexually transmitted disease)
From www.stdmatch.net to www.datingwithherpes.com , Web sites abound for the infected who want to date the infected. Many people feel like they become “untouchables” after they contract herpes or HPV, but it’s not so. And while you should still use safer sex practices -- having herpes increases your risk for contracting HIV -- you can at least rest assured that by dating other people who also have the virus, you can avoid the fear of how a new partner will react to your disclosure. S.N.
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Device for handicap
Common Space for neighbors On the courtyard of one house located on Via Paolo Sarpi, neighbors of one floor got common relaxing and smoking place with chairs, table and even common lighters. They meet there each other and got some small talk going.
This student is using a special keyboard to spell out messages with his left big toe. He has no arms and has voice output switches placed at each shoulder to answer “yes”-“no”. S.N.
Letterary Criticalmass People with different interests decide to meet in a particular place in Milan and then everyone can read to the other his/her favourite book. The last person that read can decide the next place where to keep on reading. M.L
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Meeting bar Do you want to know the person seating in the table in front of you? Are you shy? Here you can send an message to the bar with the number of table which you are interested in. G.F.
Citizen Journalist From CNN IBN English News channels in India to use the concept of “citizen journalist,” whereby any person can send in a report that is aired in a separate section, sent through MMS. A.M.
Sauna Sauna is nice and traditional Finnish way to socialize. Finnish professional skateboarder Arto Saari even built the sauna on the trailer, that he could take it with him where ever he wants! L.K.
Speaking of New Rules New York based The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute’s mission is to infuse oral, written and computer-mediated communication into the curriculum at Baruch College. They are thinking about new ideas and ways of communication and breaking the line to make communication more interesting. S.N.
Laughing Club
People especially elderly congregate in public parks daily to practice laughing, considered to be a good exercise. Whether deliberate intentional or natural, it believes in the saying for life, ‘Laughter is the best medicine.’ A.M.
Blackboard Paint Blackboard paint by Tikkurila. You can easily paint blackboard wherever you want as decoration and use chalk for drawing and writing on it. Feel free to leave messages! Some nice examples are two coffee bars in Helsinki with that kind of painted blackboard wall where people can leave messages or post comments. L.K.
Free Hugs
Facebook party
A stranger that hugs you in the middle of the street without reason could shock you, but sometime comfort from people is the only thing you need, even if you don’t know them.
The first Facebook’s italian meeting gathered thousands people in Milan on October the 22th, showing how social network today could be a way to create friendships not only in a virtual way. M.L
G.F.
Shaadi.com Matrimonial sites to connect people for their matrimonial needs.
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