How do people express their multiple, online and offline identities through their physical and virtual belongings (e.g fashion and communication technologies)? Each study in the B&B research programme addressed a specific sub-question within this overall area of interest.
Author Archives: Bas Raijmakers
Make magazine
August 28, 2009 – 16:52
Make magazine celebrates the right to hack any technology and aims to make this more accessible to larger audience. It is the expression of a certain techno style.
Observations in Ginza, Tokyo (winter 2007)
August 28, 2009 – 16:15
As a first exploration into how to collect visual material on styles/appearances in public space, we experimented with taking pictures of people crossing the streets in Ginza, Tokyo.
Future Perfect (Jan Chipchase)
August 28, 2009 – 12:24
A blog that uses photography as a starting point to reflect on everyday technology use by a design researcher who works for Nokia since many years, mainly in the Far East. Topic: Everyday life use of technology with a focus on mobile communications. Lots of attention for social aspects, but always in a specific cultural [...]
Re-Magazine (Jop van Bennekom)
August 28, 2009 – 12:04
Four magazines about one (fictional) person each based on several people. Balance between text (fake interviews, essays) and photos (documentary style fashion-inspired shoots).
Thoughtless acts (IDEO)
August 28, 2009 – 11:16
A visual documentation of actions we do not think about but are nevertheless deeply ingrained in our behaviours, for instance grabbing something for balance, warm your hands on a cup of tea, hang a jacket to claim a chair.
Research project
March 10, 2009 – 00:18
How do people present themselves online and offline, and is there a connection between the two? Belonging & Belongings is research project with a multi-disciplinary approach. It explores how people express their multiple identities using fashion and communication technologies. What makes people feel they belong to a certain group of people, and how do their [...]