Monday, February 26, 2007
Dott 07 (Designs of the time 2007) Our Cyborg Futures: Me, or Machine?
Dott 07 (Designs of the time 2007) is a year of community projects that explore how design can make a positive difference to our daily lives.
An initiative of the Design Council and the regional development agency, One NorthEast, Dott 07 enables communities and individuals in North East England to collaborate with designers in real-life situations. These projects are small but important examples of what life in a sustainable region might be like.
It culminates in a twelve day Festival in NewcastleGateshead in October 2007.
Our Cyborg Futures: Me, or Machine? looks at the shrinking divide between us and the technology we use. From prosthetic body parts, to smart textiles and wearable computing, a range of technologies is penetrating the different ‘skins’ we surround ourselves with - from our biological skin, to the clothes we wear, the buildings we live in, and the communication networks we connect through.
The Cyborg show will range from robots designed to help elderly people, through state-of-the-art devices for health, care, fashion and sport, to devices that connect our minds to communication networks.