Whatever you encounter, however normal signs in life might feel, there is always the opportunity to look at them from a different perspective, a different angle. It is the start, this attitude which enables you to deconstruct and reconstruct the world around you.
Read MoreAre we simple individuals who meet and connect only because it is useful for survival and reproduction? Or is there more about our social behaviour which especially emerges when we act and think as a group or “hive”?
Read More“Trust, like influence, is contextual. To answer the question: who do you trust? honestly, we’d probably need to say “it depends”. [...] It looks like in 2011, trust in academics and experts continues to be high, while trust in people like you has declined. Does that mean we trust the people who are humanizing brands […]
Read More“Eine Regierung, die alle Bürger verdächtigt, sollte abtreten und sich ein anderes Volk suchen.” Volker Beck “A government, which suspects all it´s citizens should step down and search for another populace.”
Read Moresource: www.benjennings.com.au/images/nl_07.gif Something to welcome or be afraid of. Is there a rise of Neoluddism? Opposed to change and technology replacing humans this term seems to be as anachronoistic as fresh in an Age of ubiquitous technology. Maybe the term Neoludism would be more inspiring… thefreedictionary.com
Read More“Der Traum einer Sache – Social Design zwischen Utopie und Alltag” was the title of an exhibition at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna lasting from 3.Nov – 12. Dec 2009. The interdisciplinary framework tried to fathom the contemporary concept of “Social Design” by means of discussions, historical roots, motivations and promises displaying artworks, theory […]
Read More“In Michel de Certeau’s seminal book The Practice of Everyday Life from 1984, he pinpoints behavioral strategies of contemporary man as a way to make us, the reader and ultimately the subject, become more self-reflexive about our procedures for social engagement, leisure and personal economy. One key concept is la perruque or “the wig,” a French expression that references the […]
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