Haushaltsgerätehersteller Electrolux beschäftigt sich unter dem Motto „War on White®“ seit über einem Jahr mit der wechselseitigen Beeinflussung von Mode und Industriedesign zeigt im Rahmen der Berlin Fashion Week die Electrolux Fashion Edition, seine Vision moderner Haushaltsgeräte in den Galeries Lafayette Berlin. ++++ Modeinszenierung „ESMOD inspired by Electrolux“ am Freitag, den 14.07.06 um 21 Uhr.
Entworfen von den Modedesignern Marithé + François Girbaud. Fehlt nur noch jemand, der endlich einmal an die Haptik denkt und umzugsfreundliche Untergriffe unter die no more white boxes baut…

Just to give an unrelated update to my earlier Places of Technology-Enhanced Social Encounters article, these are among the things I’ve seen people doing at same café:

• Cutting out and glueing together an art portfolio from exhibition photographs (amazing art btw)
• Writing a grant proposal in the field of experimental modern dance choreography (topic: attention and chrystal meth)
• Screening and cutting digital video with a digicam and a PowerBook
• Writing a diploma thesis on music software in an artificial intelligence context
• Job interviews (several)
• Magazine interviews (at least once)
• Cutting a finished piece of electronic music (”Das wird wahrscheinlich ne Maxi”).
• …

And, of course, lots of people working on websites and doing other work-related stuff they’ve been doing at cafés for centuries. Like, say, homework.

(Another thing I noticed: There’s a 50% laptop ratio among visitors at most times, but that doesn’t mean that people stop chatting with strangers. Maybe even to the contrary.)