Project report, version one

soft-side

Download it here! Now, onto the final video…

Posted at 10:09 on 10 May 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: thinking | More!

On public screens…

mae

“People don’t want more messages; they want more interactions. There’s no perfect memo where you can press send and get connected, or Facebook group you can join to be committed.” Maeda has scaled back his blogging. [...]

Posted at 16:11 on 27 April 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: thinking | More!

Tutoring report: 21/04

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Earlier today, I’ve spent a good 45 minutes talking to Kent Lindbergh, our class tutor for our thesis projects. We started off by discussing how my presentation went. Basically, he liked my concept, thinks it’s ‘strong’ [...]

Posted at 15:53 on 21 April 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: thinking | More!

Notes from today’s presentation

Photo par Luc Courchesne

Download the presentation (in French) [PDF, 5.0 Mb] Today, I presented to a little committee of people form the SAT essentially the same presentation I gave a couple of days ago to my examiners and classmates. [...]

Posted at 19:00 on 20 April 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: thinking | More!

Things that are (or might be) missing + feedback from Benjamín

yet another lousy ass sketch

As I hinted towards in my final presentation rehearsal post, for various reasons, I didn’t get much feedback at all from the material that I’ve presented on Monday. So here are some (additional) things that are [...]

Posted at 17:31 on 19 April 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: thinking | More!

Some refinements

quick-signage-sketch

The following visuals are all pulled from the final presentation rehearsal document I presented yesterday. Alongside each other: wayshowing and wayfinding layers The wayfinding layer, otherwise known as normal, not-necessarily-networked signage, is depicted with white type [...]

Posted at 13:43 on 19 April 2011 | no comments | Filed Under: making | More!

About

Hello. I’m Pierre-Alexandre Poirier, I’m a student in the interaction design masters program at Umeå Institute of Design and this is my thesis project blog.

The actual topic of my project is still a bit blurry. Let’s just say human-centered computational buildings for now. My project partner is the SAT in Montréal. I’ll also be receiving help by some kind people from IDEO’s Boston studio.

For the latest info on what I’m up to, week by week, check the weeknotes.

Please do get in touch.

Project brief

Here's my first take at writing my project brief, and, in a few paragraphs, here’s what it is that I want to do.

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