010304 EAT ---------- The course counts with no budget, and we have not chance to get anything right now. The course has a double character, what means 10 points composed of both practice and theory. For those who are counting in including this course within their PhD course should make it somehow. The course is closed now. It implies 80% presence, that should be covered with readings and writtings in case of no assistance. From the work we are doing this thing will become a part of a normal education from the Fall. The big problem is that we count with no funding for the course, what means that we have to try to be realistic with the results of it. We have no chance to pay for trips, materials, etc. CH will try to communicate to different funding systems and see if it is possible to get something from somewhere. In the Fall there will be an EAT exhibition in Norkoping, and that is a chance for us to join and show something, have seminars, or whatever. KTH is going to open a faculty dedicated to the relationship between art and technology and someon called Frederic Irriarte will be involved in it. We got the paper from Descartes. 2nd weekof June, can we have the seminar at Rooseum? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Henrik >> > No more bullshit: today we are going to work with a method adapted from design called SYNECTICS. What we are going to do is to define some criteria for a product, we now that there are different phases for the development of the design and we are going to focus in the creative part. We will work from a scenario so that we can work it out in two hours. We will try to look for a solution that doesn't really exist. We are trying to: - visualize the health - we can speak about the image as the Latour's agency (interface between the situation and the subject) - we want it to be relevant/interesting - we want to have a visualization within medicin Of course, we need to make an analysis out of those images, just because of the fact that we are working in the medical field. When asked about what we think within the term medicin people answers: pills, overdose, ultrasound, chemistri, competitivity, economi, X-ray, science, statistics, the green pieces of cloth, advertisements ... the perfect person, clean, process, effectivity, authority, clinic, steril, gender, supportive, hierarchy, instrument, diagnose, vitual, sentence (statement) ... Now, we can speak about what we know, so we are going to make a counteranalysis of the words that we think that don't fit in the previously collected set. We have to somehow attack the concepts we had on the other side: imperfect person, alternative medicin, destructivity, barfotalakare (hippokratiskt), pasivity, holistic, humanistic, chaotic + selforganized, freedom, sceptical, intuition, green tea/red wine, open source, collaboration, qualitative, for the individual, mouth to mouth recommendation, ritual, experience, hope, love, autocontrol, energy, stones, miracle, healing, home cure ... Now is when we enter the practical work. We have to represent a scenario where the diagnose comes like this: those having blue folder (like me) suffer multiple sclerosys -we got made a magnetoresonance and showed the last proof-, those having a red folder have a heart attack, those having a green folder have a brest cancer -but it is not sure that they have to die-. So, the doctor has no more time, and we just got these pre-results and we have to go hoe and come back in a week to be sure. The question is: which kind of information should be presented to us in order to understand what is going on? In the folders, we can find lots of information in the kind of analysis one. Pure facts, objective data. but we are interested in the relevant/interesant aspects for us. How can we represent those aspects? We have to produce a paper mock-up of our system, remembering to include the following: - information - communication - emotion - recreation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MS group (my group): Malene introduces the concept and we speak about the idea of the game of our lives that will be strongly influence by the factors of our existance (family, friends, social wellfare, heath, work, education, faith). Through a questionaire or form we would find the right information coming from these factors and create a gameboard and manual localized for the particular case of that person. The different choices for the game and the stories for each step are dependent of those factors. The manual would contain relevant localized information based in the local groups. The idea of playing the game would allow people to understand about the different possibilities for the future. Imagine the exagerated case where your economical situation is so bad where the best would be to pay some small amount of money to the doctor to "forget" you case and die the day after in an accident, letting your family inherit all the money from your insurance. Cancer group: They introduce kind of a children paper game that presents different possibilities based in the idea of distracting the focus during the week that you have to wait until the next meeting with the doctor that will let you know the final results on the tests. Heart attack group: "lyft dig i haret" den hela(de) manniskan sjalvgenerering lakare indikerar ... sjalv: verkar ... <> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Common properties ----------------- As conclusion we try to look for the characteristics that are shared among the different items: - help yourself - take control - move focus - game form (educational) - plotting - physical game set - psychological factors - self image (no illness' image) - get your own situation, for learning how to organize and project situations