I was stoked to receive the invitation and somewhat surprised that my speculative work had found such a directly relevant application. Having seen some of my Twitter experiments, Crowd Convergence contacted me about creating visualisers for their social media service. It’s perfect for large-scale events like sporting matches where organisers want to broadcast social media updates on a big screen and need to curate the content (ie.
Crowd Convergence social media aggregation and moderation serviceĬrowd Convergence provide a social media moderation service which allows their customers to aggregate various streams and filter the results.
A fine example of this is my collaboration with Crowd Convergence. When I create speculative work I do so without expectation of immediate practical or commercial application but I know that ideas and techniques developed during a speculative process inevitably find their way into more conventional works. For research, speculative experimentation can drive innovation and lead research in exciting new directions. The simple argument is that unshackling design from the usual constraints and social expectations gives designers the headroom to create the unusual and unexpected, or to take a critical or even antagonistic position. I am a strong proponent of speculative design.
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