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Experiencing new connections exploring human - nature - technology synergy rediscovering the connection between mind and body

Part 01 What happend the past months? Research Exploration Artifjcial Intelligence and Cognition Living with Artifjcial Intelligence Trust and Transparancy Nature as an interface Interface Signs, Language and Senses

Artifjcial Intelligence and Cognition To better understand machines and artifjcial For the purpose of this master project, I have decided intelligence we have to understand what is happening to concentrate on cognitive instead of artifjcial inside these mysterious objects. intelligence. This narrows down my fjeld of interest and makes it easier for further explorations. Artifjcial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term. But generally speaking is AI a technology that is using a algorithm Cognition is the capability to process information to make decisions. There are various subfjeld for through senses and experiences. I will try to explore if example machine learning, deep learning etc.. AI I can make a cognitive artefact. already has many fjelds of implementation, without us knowing about it. I have reasearched the defjnition of intelligence, decision making of machines in comparison to humans and how and if we are able to trust machines.

Trust and Transparancy Interface The interface is how we are able to understand and Trust is the foundation of our society and decision interact with and through objects. When we think making. Depending on continuously changing about interfaces, we most likely think about digital variables in a social setting, we adjust our decisions of ones. The phone, the computer screen the TV etc.. whom or what to trust. And the feeling of trust can be But there are more than these. The human skin connected to different biochemical processes within for example and other natural interfaces are often the human brain, which can make trust “visible”. forgotten. We are able to understand certain traits from other I want to play with the perception of interfaces. Using human beings. But when there is a different system, our own human skin as the common ground to like a computer, data or let it be AI. We don’t know explore technology and nature. With something that how it works, how it reacts, and therefore also can’t is close to us, the experience will be more intense and foresee outcomes. For me, the best way to “design meaningful. trust” is to make processes more transparent. Trust will not be directly visualised in my project, though it is a huge part of it. However, I think trust can be build by experiencing a connection to ourselves, others, nature and technology. Making processes and connections visible, and giving time for exploration will help during this process.

Signs, Language & Senses “Such reciprocity is the very structure How did language evolve? How do we understand signs? And how do we fjnd a common ground of perception. We experience the without undermining diversity and adding space for sensuous world only by rendering interpretation? These are all questions I have asked ourselves vulnerable to that world. myself the last few months. We all communicate with each other in some way or another. But how could Sensory perception is this ongoing interspecies communication look like if it would not interweavement: the terrain enters be based on speaking? into us only to the extent that we Just as Neil Harbisson or Moon Ribas, I want to allow ourselves to be taken up within combine new senses, researching experimental approaches of communication by creating a new, or that terrain.” enhanced sense. David Abram The goal is to understand us, nature and technology in a new way by creating a new language set.

Part 02 Where am I right now? Research Exploration Technology and Nature Hacking the Human Interface Habits and Rituals Human - Nature - Technology Interactions State of the Art Mapping routines Research Questions

Technology and Nature Just as we sometimes forget that we are part of nature, we seemingly forget that technology is already part of us. In the past years human-nature-technology interaction has been drastically infmuenced by technological revolution. Analog human-interaction is being teared apart by constant digital updates, self- optimisation, real-time self-editing and is shifting our focus on quantity rather than quality. “We expect more I want to explore these already existing connections. The main idea is to redesign our interaction and routines from technology and with technological devices. After observing habits and rituals, I would like to intervene in the moment in which we use technology. To experience a connection less from each other” to our own nature. I want to use this opportunity to shift our infmuence on our surrounding nature and Sherry Turkle social interactions for a future in which interaction with technology and nature is balanced.

State of the art AIServe - Navigationtool which captures the Neil Harbisson is able to experience color through sound Bouquet – Synaesthetic olfactory device to perceive environment in real time to then give audio feedback, colour through fragrance by ECAL for blind or visually impared.

Connected Tools by Giulio Barresi Devices that mediate smartphone consumption

Alt-C – Designing for synergy between our ecosystems In the eyes of an animal - MLF virtualise a forest through The landscape is created using Lidar scans and and network economics by Michael Sedbon the eyes of its creatures bespoke 360° cameras

Research Questions How can I hack the human interface How can I redesign habits, and our with an cognitive artefact? infmuence on our surrounding nature and social interactions for a future How can I make knowledge, in which technology and nature is interactions and experiences with balanced? technology and nature more tangible?

Exploration Mapping Mapping daily rituals/ routines in which we interact with others and our Phone. Storytelling Creating a narrative which can visualise opportunities/ moments in which change in our rituals can happen. (Animation?) Prototyping Artefact or object, close to our body, which interacts with us when using technology, as the fjrst instance of change.

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