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Cristina Colosi
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Jan 17, 2021

Do designers dream of electric sheep?

aka, The value of human designers in the era of AI (and no, it’s not about empathy) — It was 1969 and Philip Dick was writing the novel that have inspired Blade Runner. Speculating on the distinctive aspects between humans and replicants (basically, Artificial Intelligence) he asked: “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” Then came 2017, and with no explicit intention to answer, Milton Glaser designed a poster…

Design

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Do designers dream of electric sheep?
Do designers dream of electric sheep?
Design

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Dec 30, 2020

A Design Breath

a.k.a. how to save Creativity in a world dominated by Frameworks — Frameworks are the most dangerous and useful of things. I suspect that this duality applies to more than just frameworks, like bombs, or love, or sandwiches; but frameworks are dangerous and useful in a peculiar way, as their dangerousness comes, in fact, from their usefulness. And even if this, as well, may…

Design

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A Design Breath
A Design Breath
Design

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Aug 4, 2020

Floating in Nothingness

What stays if you shout down the body? — I’m not sure when I wrote “floating in a sensory deprivation tank” on one of my personal cards of wishes — but it worked: last Monday I floated. I first read about “sensory deprivation tanks” in a book about brain-machine interfaces. In the introductory carousel on the history of neuroscience…

Personal Growth

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Floating in Nothingness:  What Stays If You Shout Down the Body?
Floating in Nothingness:  What Stays If You Shout Down the Body?
Personal Growth

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Jul 19, 2020

Bio-Mimicry of Abstractions

aka: how sea-sponges may teach us something about Information Architecture — How many times do we hear the pairing of the terms “flow” & “information”? It’s a pretty used one, and it honestly works very well. We can easily imagine information as something that flows, like a liquid. …

Information Architecture

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Bio-Mimicry of Abstractions
Bio-Mimicry of Abstractions
Information Architecture

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May 6, 2019

Darwinism 2.0

a.k.a. a collective game of individual choices — It is easy to associate the word evolution with the name of Charles Darwin. …

Science

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Darwinism 2.0
Darwinism 2.0
Science

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Cristina Colosi

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