HOUSE OF RADON
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out?
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In 1915, at the age of 12, Vladimir Horowitz played for Alexander Scriabin in Kiev. “He told my mother—he gave her very good advice—he said to her, ‘Your son will always be a pianist. Do not forget, give him general cultural education. This is the most important thing—that he knows everything; that he knows all kinds of music, all kinds of literature and all phases of art and things like that.’ And, that is what it is. …”
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STANFORD MAGAZINE | BY ANN MARSH
The year was 1997. Microprocessor “smart cards” with those little gold, rectangular chips were becoming ubiquitous. The idea was that information, such as bank account details or medical records, could be stored on the card itself, protected by security codes. Multinational corporations were using them to transfer billions of dollars and sensitive data all around the globe.
PHD-DESIGN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK | POSTED BY RANJAN MP
This thread intrigues me and it is quite clear that the participants come to the field of design and design research from very different perspectives and in this I include the irreverent manner in which design practitioners treat research methods and traditions that have been established in the sciences.