The Mangrovia Collective Unobtrusive Gender Tracker
Virginia Valian’s Why so slow makes the case for tracking and recording gender biases in our daily life – a way to raise…
Good night, smartphone
Research worries – and so do conscious parents – about children’s overexposure to smartphones and screens at large. Remedies go from apps that…
The end of iconicity
The welcome screen of most current smartphones is a collection of representations of vintage technologies. There is an icon for the camera that represents…
Space is the new box, aka: peripersonal space
St Jerome had a large space to work in, but apparently he preferred a little, boxy, office. Possibly easier to heat than the vast…
Mangrovia’s Rad-Art
The Mangrovia Rad-Art implement is running just fine! Somewhere in France, a common problem. Cars and trucks speed through a residential neighborhood. On average,…
In case of an emergency, look for the red window
On Milan Green Line Metro, november 2016. The time will come, you have act in an emergency. Quick, what…
Orly’s Eleven
Writing from Paris T7 line, that takes us from our respective locations to Orly Airport. Hmm… Orly? We can count 11 occurrences…
Odd Even Numbers
Speedometers come in a range of formats. Some are purely digital; most are analog. Digital speedometers have the cognitive advantage of an immediate and…
The restroom elevator ambiguity
Pictograms have been around for almost a century now, and in the last fifty years they have undergone systematic standardization and refinement. It’s all…
Design is about mindfulness
“Imagine a situation in which an elderly woman is able to live independently. She typically shops for her groceries every few days. When she…