Title & Author:

Hello, robot : design between human and machine / editors: Mateo Kries, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Amelie Klein.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

[Weil am Rhein] : Vitra Design Museum, [2017]
©2017

Description:

328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Title from cover.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Hello, robot. Design between human and machine' at Vitra Design Museum, 11 February-14 May 2017; MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, 21 June-1 October 2017; Design Museum Gent, 27 October 2017-15 April 2018; Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, 12 May-4 November 2018, and other venues.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Science and fiction -- Programmed to work -- Friend and helper -- Becoming one.

Summary:

"Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine" investigates how robotics is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives. The exhibition 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 catalogue points out where we already encounter these intelligent machines and where we may come across them in the near future: in the 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 science-fiction author Bruce Sterling or the design duo Dunne & Raby explore the question of how we deal with an environment that is rapidly becoming more digital, smarter and more autonomous. They highlight our often ambivalent relationship to new technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges that present themselves to us as individuals and as a society in this context. In this regard, "Hello, Robot" broadens the scope of the discussion to include the ethical and political questions with which we are faced today in the light of technological advances in robotics, while confronting us with the contradictions that are often found in the answers to these questions.

ISBN:

9783945852118 (English edition)
3945852110 (English edition)
9783945852101 (German edition)
3945852102 (German edition)

Subject:

Robots Exhibitions.
Robotics Exhibitions.
Human-robot interaction Exhibitions.
Design and technology Exhibitions.
Robotics Human factors Exhibitions.
Robots in art Exhibitions.
Art and technology Exhibitions.
Robotique Expositions.
Interaction homme-robot Expositions.
Design et technologie Expositions.
Robotique Facteurs humains Expositions.
Art et technologie Expositions.
Art and technology.
Design and technology.
Human robot interaction.
Robotics.
Robotics Human factors.
Robots.
Robots in art.
Exhibition catalogs.
Human-robot interaction

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph, editor.
Kries, Mateo, 1974- editor.
Klein, Amelie, editor, organizer.
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, host institution.
Design Museum Gent, host institution.
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, host institution.
Vitra Design Museum, issuing body, host institution.

Design between human and machine

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307227
Call No.: BIB 252717
Status: Available