September 23, 2010 at 4:09 PM · Filed under digital design, energy, making it public, service design, time, visualization
Sketch of Electricity Consumption Time for Smart Meter
CSTEP has embarked on testing of smart meters for electricity consumption. This yields a ton of data, with measurements of each of three phases being taken at 5 sec intervals. I did some sketches of those data and how they might be integrated into a timepiece showing time, electricity consumption, and phase.
Three colors indicate each of the three phases.
Time is mapped by seconds (colored), minutes (grey), and hours (grey).
On the left, a linear scale shows the variation in consumption.
September 23, 2010 at 3:41 PM · Filed under community interaction design, complex systems, design ecology, energy, evolution, futures, heterarchy, interaction, preferences, relational aesthetics, service design, symbolic systems, technology
A Simple Model of Attachment
The image above was the first draft. This is the second. Thanks to Aliya for good, perceptive comments.
attachmentModel_v2
Premises:
Culture as the processes that allow the uptake of processes, procedures, information, beliefs, values and social norms.
Cultural affiliations are attachments.
Attachments and reattachments are limited (quantity) and constrained (quality) by pressures.
Aspiration is a cultural step in creating capability.
Based in part on: Appadurai, A., 2004, ‘The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition’, in Rao, V. and Walton, M., (eds.) Culture and Public Action, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, pp 59-84.
