More Projects

Small projects, quick project, unfinished projects.

Living Dangerously (In progress)

A current project investigating the role of fear and excitement in everyday life by recreating or playing upon real and fictional occurences.
A processing sketch pulls in online Earthquake data in XML form, and outputs the data to Arduino which drives motors using Pulse Width Modulation to correspond to the depth and magnitude of each new earthquake.
Er, that’s as far as I’ve got…


Reading lamp

Reading lamp is the first in a series of products that ask us to acknowledge those everyday technologies that we take for granted. Do those objects whose use is more reciprocal become more valuable to us?
This project aims to discover if it is possible to create more sustainable objects and opportunities for more rewarding everyday experiences, by investigating ways in which design can encourage more meaningful relationships between people and their belongings.


Memorascope

Borne out of a concern that increasingly prevalent Non-Places are stripping our everyday environments of personal significance, Memorascope is a device for associating personal memories with  real space.
The viewer contains a digital photo viewer that can be pre-loaded with a set of photographs. Looking into the viewfinder on top of the device allows you to see a view of your environment through the photograph that is being displayed on the screen, creating a montage of the two images.
As with the viewfinders on old film cameras like Kodak’s box-brownie, the images that you see are distorted and imperfect, meaning that you have to look a little harder and a little longer.



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About

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My name is Mark and I’m a product interaction designer. Or something.

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub at the University of Nottingham. As well as conducting my own research into the design of more emotionally valuable and temporally enduring technologies, I continue to be involved in ongoing research projects exploring the possibilities of  ’Technology Heirlooms’.

Anyway, feel free to have a look around and if  you think you might be interested in working with me get in touch.


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