Dear friends, we are heading again to Milan in a few days to show Playstools at HOMI SMART, an experimental exhibition format where innovation - in every possible form - becomes a point of observation, encounter and exchange. Find us at...
On December 9-11 we were invited to participate at the Matera Design weekend. The theme of discussion was about Immaterial Design and how contemporary design practices encompass immateriality in their process. We were invited to showcase our project Playstools and were also aske...
Back in October, I visited the first Athens Mini Maker Faire. I have been waiting for the Faire to come to Athens for a few years, so I was quite excited when The Cube Athens along with FairsPro announced it. Athens is now...
Playstools are a set of stools functioning also as luminaires and game. When connected wirelessly to each other Playstools turn into a game, inviting users to play through their interactive interface. For the last month we have been working on this project between Polifactory, the...
The WHY Interactive Megaphone workshops & installation was part of the Southbank Centre Digital Arts Programme. It was designed by artists Artemis Papageorgiou & Gabriella Mastrangelo from Entropika Lab and made in collaboration with school pupils and Marion Lagedamont from LCC Design for Interaction Arts. The idea behind the Interactive...
The Paper Playscapes team met again in Athens on December 14th & 18th to run two workshops at the Onassis Cultural Centre (Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών). We invited more than 40 young people within two days to build two responsive paper Christmas trees, which they dismantled right after as they were...
For those of you who missed it during the Elephant&Castle Mini Maker Faire, Paper Playscapes will be again on show this Saturday, 22nd November, at the V&A for a day of events, which are part of the UK-wide Crafts Council Make:Shift:Do programme. http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshiftdo/. MAKE:SHIFT:DO is a...
The final installation & game Paper Playscapes as constructed by the audience during the Elephant&Castle Mini Maker Faire! ...
Being able to assemble Paper Playscapes at the 3d Workshop was a great opportunity, and we'd like to thank the staff - Dil, Roman and Gregor - for their precious help! It was also nice to chat with the students browsing around, asking with curiosity what...