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This is neat:People Are Walking Architecture, or making NearlyNets with MujiComp, January 2010
I particularly like this idea (quoted by Warren Ellis):
It’s a bunch of thinking about how designers (and BERG in particular) might start thinking through making products for ’smart cities’ (as they’re known for good and for ill) including the qualities that these products should possess in order for them to be invited into people’s homes – something we’ve started calling ‘mujicomp’ as shorthand in the studio.
‘Mujicomp’ has pretty much taken over the world now. It’s still startling to me that only a few years ago, people used to take technological tasks to the office (hey, do you have the internet at the office and can you book me a flight/print this off/find out the answer to this?) and now, in the offices I’ve worked in, people go home early if they have tasks to complete (ie to avoid dealing with the dumb firewall or to chat on IM or whatever).
If you opened a new office a few years ago, you went to a discount office furniture place and ordered cheap, refurbished swivel chairs and plug-and-play desks. Now, the team all go to Ikea and usually enjoy it (in fact, shopping at Ikea for work is the only way to enjoy it).
When we fire all the IT managers we’ll be able to fill our offices with Mujicomp.
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