Interview with Selena Savic, part 2: DIY Solar for public spaces

September 3, 2011

This is the second part of the interview with Selena Savic. Read the first part here: On architecture and people

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Selena Savic @Make Me Festival during DIY Solar cells workshop
Photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)

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Interview with Selena Savic, part 1: On architecture and people

Selena Savic is one the main forces responsible for organizing the Make Me Festival / Napravi me! jointly with Zene na delu/Women at Work organization. During the festival she led the workshop DIY solar cells. Selena is an artist and architect combining concepts of public spaces, open sourcing, new media, sound, programming and DIY.

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Selena Savic leading Solar workshop @Make Me Festival
Belgrade, June 2011, photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)

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Sabine Seymour: Functional Aesthetics – Book Review

April 13, 2011

Sabine Seymour published her second book entitled Functional Aesthetics – Visions on Fashionable Technology few months ago, following her successful title Fashionable Technology from 2008.

Seymour takes everything into perspective. Firstly, the design of the book – binding and the concept are rather unique. The surface of the hardbook is covered with beige rip fabric showing softness and roughness of the used material at the same time.

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Functional Aesthetics by Sabine Seymour (2010)

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Interview with Syuzi Pakhchyan: Wiring garments and objects… creatively…

October 4, 2010

Syuzi Pakhchyan is a passionate  user experience designer, robotics instructor, writer, blogger, founder of Fashioning technology network, soft circuits  and electronics addict, tool master, sparkle maker,  and sewing machine’s best friend…

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