Hello, robot : design between human and machine
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Hello, robot : design between human and machine
Vitra Design Museum, 2017
English edition
- hbk.
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German edition: ISBN:978-3-945852-10-1
Exhibition catalogue
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at Vitra Desin Museum, Feb. 11-May 14, 2017; MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, June 21-Oct. 1, 2017; Design Museum Gent, Oct. 27, 2017-Apr. 15, 2018; Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, May 12-Nov. 4, 2018
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Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is becoming part of our everyday lives. The exhibitions shows that design in its traditional function as a mediator is indispensable if robots are to become a visible reality and not just remain hidden in washing machines, cars and cash machines. The volume clarifies where we already encounter these intelligent machines and where we may come across them in the near future: in industry, in the military and in everyday settings; at nurseries and retirement homes; in our bodies and in the cloud; when shopping and having sex; in video games and, of course, in film and literature. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews, experts such as the science fiction author Bruce Sterling and the design duo Dunne & Raby explore the question of how we deal with our environment becoming increasingly digital, smarter and more autonomous. They highlight our often ambivalent relationship to new technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges that are posed to us as individuals and as a society in this context. In this regard, Hello, Robot. broadens the scope of the discussion to the ethical and political questions with which we are faced today in the light of technological advances in robotics, whilst confronting us with the contradictions that are often found in the answers to these questions.
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