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Editorial 2005 Interaction-Ivrea: Simone Muscolino, Ivan Gasparini, Dario Buzzini, Steven Blyth, Myriel Milicevic Projects By: Shawn Bonkowski, Dana Gordon, James Tichenor, David A Mellis, Didier Hilhorst, Nicholas Zambetti, Aram Armstrong, Haiyan Zhang, Jennifer Bove, Thomas Stovicek, Nicholas Zambetti, Dario Buzzini, Massimo Banzi, Tristam Sparks, Andreea Chelaru, Ana Camila Amorim More Photos: Strangely Familiar DVD Gallery 1 | Strangely Familiar DVD Gallery 2 
Box of Sound, By James Tichenor (with David A Mellis). Photo by Nicholas Zambetti The DVD documents the result of the two weeks workshops, called 'Strangely Familiar, unusual object for everyday life'. Our everyday domestic lives are saturated with digital circuits; we find them in our washing machines, radios, toasters, alarm clocks and telephones. Often manufacturers load superfluous features into a single device, complicating operations. In addition, devices often converge so that the personality of each object becomes blurred. For example, our mobile phone is now also a calculator and a camera (as well as the ubiquitous alarm clock, address book, videogame). The project of Interaction-Ivrea is to rethink everyday digital devices found in the domestic environment, and produce solutions that provide more meaningful and poetic interactions. Taking cue from either a telephone, radio, answering machine or alarm clock, the students at Interaction-Ivrea have created a series of electronic interactive prototypes that amplify the lost qualities of the physical and tangible world. From a radio which can only be tuned by moving it across a flat surface, to an audio channel system which is always switched on just like a physical chat room, to an alarm clock that turns itself off by squeezing a teddy bear, the variations upon the theme are several. As always, each project has been conceived, developed and prototyped as a fully functioning device. 
Feel the Music (I), By James Tichenor (with David A Mellis). Photo by Nicholas Zambetti 
Speak Out, By Tristam Sparks and Andreea Chelaru (with Ana Camila Amorim). Photo by Nicholas Zambetti Related Files
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