Accidents and failures as creative material for the near future

October 20, 2010 1:01 pm

Conference held by Nicolas Nova
Accidents and failures as creative material for the near future

Wednesday 20 october – 06.30 Pm
Regional Museum of Natural Science – Conference Room

Nicolas Nova presents his research about product failure, glitches, errors and technological accidents. the swiss researcher concentrates on how people experience them and how they can be a starting point for creating near future worlds. think for instance about creating prototypes and exhibiting problems within it to make them more compelling. or showing something as it will work with the failures so anticipating them somehow rather than ignoring the possibility. What will not work right? What problems will be caused? What does it mean?

The conference relies on examples of failed robots, absurd aircrafts or the intentional destruction of mobile phones and vending machines to show how studying these examplescan be relevant in the design process. Based on these examples, the talk will deal with two issues: how can we include the exploration of failures in the design process? How to turn failures and people? Reaction to failures into prototyping tools?