Production Still: Oliver Goodhall, 'Nuclear is Good. What will it take to convince you'
The Floating Cinema took part in Multiplex at The Dock, hosted
by Tom Dixon, from Wednesday 21st – Friday 23rd
September, presenting a programme of short films by
ex-students from the Design
Interactions department at the Royal College of Art. On
the Thursday Maria Smith of Studio Weave, the Floating Cinema
architects, gave a talk about their design approach.
11.45am Studio Weave talk
Films from the RCA Design
Interactions Department
These films were selected from work by graduates
from the The Royal College of Art Design
Interactions department from the last five years. The
focus of this unique post graduate course is on designing
interactions between people and technology on a number of different
levels. We are concerned not only with the expressive, functional
and communicative possibilities of new technologies but also
with the social, cultural and ethical consequences of living within
an increasingly technologically mediated society. We explore new
ways design can make technology more meaningful and relevant
to our lives, both now, and in the future, by thinking not only
about new applications but implications as well.
We use design to inspire, raise awareness, stimulate discussion,
and provoke debate, all of which can help achieve technological
futures that reflect the complex, troubled people we are,
rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are
supposed to be.
Curated by long-term tutor on the course, Nina Pope
(of Somewhere.org.uk),
this selection of films by ex-students was an openly personal one -
reflecting many of the more 'engaged' projects that deal directly
with their audience, often inviting them to be part of the design
process.
Films:
Thomas Thwaites, The Toaster Project
(11’39”)
Ka Fai Choy, SynchroMetrics
(3’10”)
Alison Thomson, The Chronic Facility
(05’07”)
J. Paul Neeley, Masamichi Souzou
(02’00”)
Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing
(Open_Sailing 03’56”, Energy Animal 01’23”, Protei
03’55”)
Lisa Ma, Wellmen Waters (07’46”)
Tuur Van Balen, Pigeon d'Or
(11’45”)
Nitipak Samsen, Coin Flipper (04’
28”)
Oliver Goodhall, Nuclear is Good. What will
it take to convince you (10’33”)
Elliott P. Montgomery, The Energy Pilots
Introduction Video (03’23”)
Louise O'Connor, Choreography of the Very
Small (06’16”)
Zoe Papadopoulou, Nuclear Dialogues
(05’20”)
Tuur Van Balen, Cook Me - Black
Bile (06’40”)
Milan Metthey, Foreign
Affairs (Love Ducking 02’47”, 02’44”, 01’09”, Vulpes Sapiens
Mediator 10’30”, Wild Sweet Home 04’05”)
Steven Levon Ounanian, My Mother's Robot
(34’37”)
No booking necessary. Spaces on a first-come first-served
basis.
