Delft University of Technology

Marcel Vroom

Rotterdam

Industrial design

Design reseach

Education & cultural organisations

Emerging issues

Product transformation

Interface = Product

Smart things

Public transport information

Product evolution

Interface = Product

Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan

Apple iPad

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

‘We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.’

Didier Faustino, Instrument for Blank Architecture

James J. Gibson

Because objects and environments have certain characteristics,

people will behave accordingly to these characteristics:

Perception drives Action

That is why we can steer ‘the world’ as in the activities and experiences of men with the ‘things’ we develop…..

4 generations of computers 4 generations of interfaces

At the end, the interface is the product: a stack of layers with their functions

Interface design……………. ……………Minority Report ……………Iron Man

Emerging issues

2 we produce to much emissions

3 we use to much energy

4 we expect much of new (energy) technologies

1 we get short of materials and natural resources

In the meantime we seem short of ideas

•how to continu designing products, buildings and cities

•how to proceed with this know-how

Option 1

Adding more heavy and more complex materials to reduce energy consumption results in - more weight, more transport, more emissions etc, - plus diminishing returns

Option 2

Generating our own, sustainable energy, to reduce the energy bills, comes with a too long return on investments

Option 3

Start adding intelligence: > matching energy supply with the energy needs > matching energy supply where the energy is needed

Internet of Things (IoT)

Ubiquitous computing

Swarm technology

Ambient intelligence

Smart dust

Internet of Things (IoT)

“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it” Mark Weiser, 1991

Internet of people (man-to-man) Internet of services (man-to-machine) Internet of things (things-to-things)

Interaction: matching supply and demand Transformation: for information to operation

Not energy neutral, but ….. More energy efficient than man-to-machine interaction

Public transport information

Community Dashboard

Elektronische producten willen terugkeren naar hun essentie. Zodra je weet welk pad wordt afgelegd, welke stap in de spiraal zal worden gezet om een evolutie te versnellen, kun je ingrijpen.

• van publiek naar persoonlijk

• van generiek naar specifiek

• van dik naar dun

• van centraal gestuurd naar open-source

• van complexiteit naar eenvoud