Filip Visnjic
Architect and New Media Technologist
Open Tables
Open Tables is a software application and a spatial environment, which researches and facilitates collaborative working between individuals and groups. The first prototype of Open Tables was launched as a website on September 11th at Nous Gallery, London, and as a ‘fast architecture’ installation at the Tent London 2008 design event, at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane between 18th and 21st September. The core purpose of Open Tables is to explore the potential for new kinds of collaborative working to emerge in spaces that combine analogue and digital modes of interaction: engaging both the mind and the senses in the navigation and production of information. A typical meeting room has a table to sit around, and probably a flip chart and projector. More creative organisations often realise the importance of providing a variety of stimuli and environments, and typically have some break out, lounge like spaces. Open Tables combines these two familiar conditions, and intensifies them by introducing web based information flows and social networking scenarios, using interfaces which are based upon digital projections onto familiar objects, provoking physical interactions with data, often using the whole body, rather than just a mouse and keyboard. find out more @ http://www.opntables.com/about
MindMeTo
Mindmeto is a Twitter bot that allows you, using Twitter, to easily add and receive reminders. This is how it works: 1. Follow mindmeto on Twitter. MindMeTo will quickly follow you back. 2. Add a reminder by tweeting: @mindmeto buy some milk tomorrow This will add "Buy some milk" to tomorrow's schedule. (You can also add your reminder privately by sending a direct message.) 3. At the scheduled time MindMeTo will send you a private direct message to "buy some milk". Visit: mindmeto.com for more info.
CreativeApplications.Net
CreativeApplications.Net is a daily blog that brings together software applications that challenge the ways how we share and engage with information. From art projects to apps for your iPhone, CAN collects best and most exciting in app development. Launched October 2008
Open Studio
Open Studio is an interactive project run by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a 'real time' teaching and learning environment in which staff and students run a series of blogsites—each of them based on the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops—and all of which experiment with innovative forms of education technology.
