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MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology
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The Information Ecology group (formerly the Physical Language Workshop) explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources.
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Through the use of low-cost, ubiquitous technologies, we are creating seamless and pervasive ways to interact with our information—and with each other. We focus on projects that harness the ecology of consumer electronics and sensor devices—present and future—to more smoothly mediate the boundaries between the physical and information worlds we inhabit.
We define Design Ecology as the study of malleable design that is aware of and can seamlessly react to changing environments. This new approach to design will enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment. Our relationship with information should be appropriately situated in both spatial and social contexts; thus, while traditional design methods focus on single products and users, we believe that looking at the interplay between multiple people and multiple devices will yield significant results.
We define Design Ecology as the study of malleable design that is aware of and can seamlessly react to changing environments. This new approach to design will enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment. Our relationship with information should be appropriately situated in both spatial and social contexts; thus, while traditional design methods focus on single products and users, we believe that looking at the interplay between multiple people and multiple devices will yield significant results.
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