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+ | ===== The Lab for Narrative Technologies and Spatial Installations ===== | ||
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+ | The **NTSI-Lab** is a small interdisciplinary **Design Research Lab** in the Engineering Department of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Within NYUAD Engineering Department’s research fields we focus on problems or questions in the realm of Information, | ||
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+ | At NTSI Lab we envision systems and spaces, and create and deploy innovative objects through design and engineering tools. While most engineering research labs are specialised in the use of abstract mathematical models, our goal is to generate representative scenarios and pioneer use-cases in form of technological prototypes for: | ||
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+ | **1. Products that do not yet exist.** Our primary research focuses on technology semantics. We analyse the digital society and translate trends into new kinds of medial devices and technological artefacts. The focus is not only on technology, but on the integration of technology within society 2 under the following aspects: | ||
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+ | * Relevance (substance and sustainability) | ||
+ | * Interdisciplinary (creative and unlimited) | ||
+ | * Respect (honesty and persistence) | ||
+ | * Sincerity (clarity and forthrightness) | ||
+ | * Multidimensionality (useful and effective) | ||
+ | * Adequacy (sensitive and economical) | ||
+ | * Quality (targeted and uncompromising) | ||
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+ | Our secondary research focuses on the creation of artefacts on high user experiences (UX), intuitive user interfaces (UI) and Embodied Human Computer Interaction (eHCI) often in the context of Internet of Things (IoT), E-Textiles and Smart Materials. | ||
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+ | We want to find answers to the following main questions: | ||
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+ | * How would we like to live in the future? | ||
+ | * Which role will technology play in our future? | ||
+ | * Which impact will society have on creating new technologies? | ||
+ | * How can the virtual realm be transferred into the real world? | ||
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+ | **2. Site-specific installations for architectural spaces.** | ||
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+ | In a first step we analyse the basic elements of architectural spaces to understand its unique characteristics. We take into consideration implied facts like location, structure, materiality, | ||
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+ | In a second step we focus on the development and integration of content related technologies. We explore the specific quality of a dedicated technology in combination with physical properties of objects and materials to create not only a site- but also a content specific installation. We are interested in exploring the correlation of a strong narrative character to be compiled with a highly technological character to create a performative presence in space, and as its consequence: | ||
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+ | The overall intention is to improve processes, services and special systems being designed and to create prototypes to gain knowledge about and to develop new technologies. Our main question is: | ||
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+ | * How may algorithmic, | ||
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+ | ===== Research through design. Research as design. ===== | ||
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+ | Our experimental practise result into multiple prototypes, its reflection and contextualization. | ||
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+ | Our daily work reflects the iterative design process (research through design): | ||
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+ | * Looking | ||
+ | * Learning | ||
+ | * Asking | ||
+ | * Making | ||
+ | * Testing | ||
+ | * Evaluating | ||
+ | * Communicating | ||
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+ | We use a broad range of design methods (research as design): | ||
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+ | * Sketching | ||
+ | * Mind mapping | ||
+ | * Sampling | ||
+ | * Matrix evaluation | ||
+ | * Image and mood boards | ||
+ | * Collages | ||
+ | * Perceptual mapping | ||
+ | * Product autopsy | ||
+ | * Trend spotting | ||
+ | * Future forecasting | ||
+ | * Cultural probes | ||
+ | * Cultural comparisons | ||
+ | * etc. | ||
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+ | As well as experimental practices (research as design): | ||
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+ | * Scenario testing | ||
+ | * Product usability | ||
+ | * Material testing | ||
+ | * Mock ups | ||
+ | * Quick-and-dirty prototypes | ||
+ | * Experience prototyping | ||
+ | * Rapid prototyping | ||
+ | * etc. | ||
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+ | Our research is: systematic, rigorous, critical, reflective, communicable to others, sustainable, | ||
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+ | ===== Contact ===== | ||
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+ | Mail: mail@ntsi.info | ||
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+ | Telephone: +971 2628 5241 | ||
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+ | **NTSI Office (Mailing Address)** \\ Prof. Felix Beck \\ Lab for Narrative Technologies and Spatial Installations (NTSI Lab) \\ Experimental Research Building (ERB), Building C1, Office 153 \\ New York University Abu Dhabi \\ Saadiyat Island \\ Abu Dhabi, UAE | ||
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+ | **NTSI Prototyping Lab** \\ Lab for Narrative Technologies and Spatial Installations (NTSI Lab) \\ Building A5, Lab 015-2 (inside Engineering Design Studio) \\ New York University Abu Dhabi \\ P.O. Box 129188 \\ Abu Dhabi, UAE | ||
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