Around Mobile

The territory of mobile communication is rapidly growing: today it includes every artefact that is connected WIRELESS to a communication network, that is able to DIALOGUE REMOTELY with other objects, can manage different MEDIA formats and that is (at least partially) PORTABLE.

AroundMobile is an exploration on the boundaries between MOBILE technologies and the world of objects, artefacts and PHYSICAL PRODUCTS that support both COMMUNICATION and SOCIAL processes and behaviours. AroundMobile aims at investigating the bandwidth of the mobile concept, from ultra mobile ubiquitous solutions, to static objects that exploit, from a different perspective, the potentialities of mobile technology, like the possibility to be remotely activated and/or to wireless retrieve information etc.

The aim of AroundMobile is to re-think the MOBILE LANDSCAPE made of products and services by developing a set of innovative solutions inspired by emerging characteristics of contemporary socio-cultural, technological and business scene, starting form some crucial FACTS and related POTENTIALITIES.

The workshop goal is to design autonomous artefacts (not a mobile phone) that embed mobile technology potentialities in terms of innovative FORMAL, SENSORIAL/EXPRESSIVE and INTERACTION qualities.

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The projects can be browsed according to the specific briefs.

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View Projects: mobile++|Mobile Embodiments 2|Emotional Rocks|SIM-ID

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