Strate Digital Culture Dominique Sciamma Director, Development & Research

Going from today’s world …

… to tomorrow’s world !

The new convergence •  Chip, software, A.I., new materials, telecommunications,

are potentially invading every object, place, and situation of our daily lives.

•  The human environment is going to be colonized by « intelligent objects ».

The stakes of « Living Objects Design »

•  The so called « digital design» stakes are in the material world and not behind the screen, i.e. cannot be reduced to the interface….

•  It is the big return of materiality, of the body experience, of sensitivity in a world populated with objects wich may (will ?) become our peers.

New Challenges for Designers

•  Invent and use the tools and methods definig behavioral design

• Manage complexity

•  Think « systems »

•  Integrate the ethics, politics, and philosophical issues of a of world shared with intelligent objects

Think and Create differently

•  It is useless to poll the final user about those future living objects

•  It is useless to interrogate technologies to invent those Robjects

•  It useless to use our reason to imagine those creatures.

•  We have no other choice than to sublimate reason, in creating the New WishFull Thinking, which is about dreaming the usage first, and potter the solutions after...

The « Interactive Systems & Objects »

curriculum at Strate

Our syllabus •  Initiation to the interaction design methodology

(beginning 2nd year)

•  Initiation to knowledges linked to the discipline •  A.I. •  Nanotechnologies •  Robotics

•  Conferences on the societal & political issues of the digital age

•  Interface design training •  Arduino based systems design

•  14 weeks project during the 3rd year

•  Industrial partnerships on the 4th year

•  Personal projects during the 5th year

Some partners

Strate Collège Research

Interaction design oriented research

•  Research Master in Interaction Design Codeveloped with Arts et Métiers Paristech

•  Research Partner of the « Imagination Modelization » Chair of Institut Telecom ParisTech

•  Member of IRI (Centre Pompidou Research Center)

•  Member of Institut Carnot « Telecom & Digital Society » together with Institut Telecom, Ecole Polytechnique, …

And Then ?

Y is a urban ritual installation through which, slowly, an individual is getting rid off his/her identity, to become an angel. After quitting all his/her clothes, he/she wears a special suit which hides his/her sexual identity, wear his/her head with a virtual reality helmet, and then jump into a static flight, becoming an angel. Eventually, when /eshe comes back to reality, his/her back still gets the stygmata of his/her lost wings.

Y Alexis PRASIT

2003

UbiQ is an ubiquitous system allowing a young Patient to be present in his classroom or at home using a floating holographic telepresence system

and a touch screen interface placed on his bed.

UBIQ F.Mestre

2008

OBOE A.Deloustal

2008

Oboe is humanoid robot, has got a heart (Kokoro) containing its knowledge as well as those transmitted by

its masters. After it has disappeared, a ritual of sharing and transmission of this knowledge can thus be

organised for the descendants.

Starting as a simple cell, R-Potato is a robot which can meet functional and emotional needs of its owner. Polymorphous and open machine, it has a

combinatory, simple and versatile architecture, which evolves physically, by addition of new limbs

R-Potato A.Ribout

2008

MOOVI Gregory

LEBOURDAIS 2009

Autistic children have motricity problems, and

difficulties to filter human voices form ambient

noises. MOOVI is a system

composed of a small robot and a headphone.

The robot allows the child to control his motricity,

when the headphone filter the human voice from

ambient noises.

Rebirth – Jérémy Dubé - 2009 REBIRTH

Jeremy DUBE 2009

How to prepare the rebirth of Mankind if it disappears ? By aggregating Space technology, AI, Robotics, and Artificial Uterus, Jeremy imagines the ultimate sustainable development scenario.

Metis C.Delaunay-Driquert 2010

How to integrate the philosophy and approach of Transhumanism in an ethical way ? By choosing to work for hanycaped people, with an augmented prothesi.

Naka – J.Hazera – M.Schmitt – Q.Bezard

Jwell – S.Bejaoui – Q.Belzard – Q.Lebras

Contact : ds@stratecollege.fr