https://bamna.ch bamna Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:08:36 +0000 https://bamna.ch en https://bamna.ch/Landing-Page Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:08:36 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Landing-Page https://bamna.ch/overview-1 Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:07:28 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/overview-1 YOU&AIRELATIONSHIPS WITH SOCIAL ROBOTS  CHAOS CUISINEA QUEST FOR COLLABORATION ATTACHMENT APÉROA CULINARY BONDING EXPERIENCE RA’ANAA GARDEN OF POEMS                                        https://bamna.ch/YOU-AI-Intro Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:14:30 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/YOU-AI-Intro YOU&AI: RELATIONSHIPS WITH SOCIAL ROBOTS HOW COULD INTELLIGENT ENTITIES IMPACT AND CREATE RELATIONSHIPS?  As robots and artificially intelligent entities start comforting us emotionally, we asked ourselves how the world of a ‚homo futuris‘, the human of the future, could develop. YOU&AI investigates and speculates societal and emotional phenomena in human-robot interactions: communication, relationships, romance, empathy, responsibility, and eventually the immortality of technology as opposed to the ephemeral human body.  The project started as a collaborative Bachelor’s project with Nora Strebel at the Zurich University of the Arts, Department Design: Industrial-and Product Design, 2018 https://bamna.ch/Artifacts-of-the-Future Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:15:18 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Artifacts-of-the-Future WHAT IF A MUSEUM COULD DISPLAY FRAGMENTS OF THE FUTURE, INSTEAD OF THE PAST? WHAT COULD THE LIFE OF A “HOMO FUTURIS” LOOK LIKE?  ARTIFACTS OF THE FUTURE IS A POP-UP EXHIBITION INVITING THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS COMPLEX RESEARCH ON INTERACTIONS WITH ROBOTS AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION IN AN EXPLORATIVE, IMMERSIVE, AND EMOTIONAL MANNER. The exhibition contains 3 stations to explore possible scenarios, artifacts, and services. It is supported by a spacial data matrix, visualizing over 200 questions and quotes on human-interaction robots from international experts across the industry.  https://bamna.ch/Datebot Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:15:15 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Datebot HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR ROBOT?  DATEBOT — A SERVICE FOR FIRST DATES WITH CUSTOMIZED PARTNERS ‚Datebot displays a service design offered by a fictional dating company called Realbots. At Realbots, humans can order humanoid robots as their “perfect partners” online. The claim for perfection lies in the hyperindividualisation of the humanoid product: Each robot is customized based on the digital footprints of the client. Allowing datebot to collect and merge data from various institutions and platforms, alledgedly offers a more fitting and precise partner and User Experience. The customization of are individually designed to please their human counterpart in their aesthetics, haptics and external characteristics. However, our research suggest that current and future interactions with humanoid robots are not necessarily similar to the relationships between humans.  The love letter and conversation hint a new form of relationships between humans and robots — a relationship that is not yet experienced.  DATEBOT displays a variety of phenomena: From hyperindividualistic and data-driven user-experiences, to the status quo in dating robots and the questions of surprise, control, and commitment in digital matchmaking.  https://bamna.ch/Cypearl Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:15:10 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Cypearl COULD ROBOTS DEVELOP THEIR OWN LANGUAGE?  CYPEARL — WHEN NEW LANGUAGES REQUIRE NEW TRANSLATION TOOLS What happens when intelligent devices communicate with each other autonomously? Do we aspire to become part of the internet of things? How can humans participate in the worlds they create, when they may be exclusive by nature? Cypearl could be the tech jewellery of the future: An implant, that translates information into the brain via bone conduction. The pearl is a cursor that changes volume and timeline of the data exchange. It’s present in our everyday life and available in all languages. But why would we need this?  The idea is based on the status quo (2018) of technology: Autonomous chatbots developing their own language, robots being connected to the same cloud and interchanging data between robots located across the globe. Ubiquitous technology and data exchange between intelligent systems is rapid and constant, regardless of its lack of tangibility through our current senses. Cypearl tells a story about data security, communication, and the attempt to turn into Cyborgs.Whether this story is a desirable future scenario, shall be debated.    https://bamna.ch/Hexagon Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:40:42 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Hexagon WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR ROBOT WHEN YOU PASS AWAY? HEXAGON TRANSITIONS — INSURANCE MODELS FOR HUMAN-ROBOT-RELATIONSHIPS How do we deal with new responsibilities that emerge from creating artificial intelligence and emotions? What happens to ‘mental-commitment-robots’ when they were created for interaction, but lose their human counterpart? Will they suffer from our absence? Should we provide any programs before we pass away? Derived from current interactions with existing mental-commitment robots in healthcare, the  advertisement is an extrapolation of the status quo — from the perspective of insurances. Hexagon Transitions is tech-company that offers insurances for autonomous technological entities that have been trained to commit to their human counterpart and mourn human loss. https://bamna.ch/Attachment-Apero-Intro Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:32:36 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Attachment-Apero-Intro ATTACHMENT APÉRO — A CULINARY BONDING EXPERIENCE https://bamna.ch/Attachment-Apero-Page-2 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:06:11 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Attachment-Apero-Page-2 RELATIONSHIP- CENTRIC PRACTICES The users experience is at the center is manifested in user-centered, customized, on-demand products, ser- vices, and lifestyles. Data-driven solutions emphasize this culture by offering specific solutions to specific needs. But this approach is only efficient and beneficial for individual problem-solving. Societies are facing complex, interconnected and ambigu- ous challenges, which require negotiation between con- flicting stakeholders, values, and disciplines. A new set of complex questions arises — from predictive medicine, to digital responsibility of corporations, to the climate crisis, and structural discrimination — businesses, policy-makers, and the public are introduced to challen- ges that can only be tackled collaboratively and only be solved with a strong sense of responsibility and trust. Thus, this project focuses on collaboration and ethical de- cision-making in complex, yet practice-oriented cases and researches the organizational, structural, and emotional pre-conditions in which collaboration and ethical deci- sion-making can be facilitated. Unlike current solutions, it adds a new dimension for negotiation: The language of Design. Design holds the poten- tial to add tangible, multisensory experiences to current circumstances and aims to mediate ideas and opportunities between stakeholders to negotiate the desirability of possible outcomes. Besides desk research and research results from past projects, protagonists from areas like financ, healthcare, workforce, futurism, pszcholog are being ap- proached with the aim to provide first-hand knowledge and inputs on trust and responsibility in collaborative set- tings and thus, offer frameworks, cases, and scenarios to investigate in. This not-so-self-service Apéro is an invitation to a culinary setting where collaboration is the key to unfold the full potential of this multisensory experience. Participants face challenges and limitations which they can overcome by engaging and interacting with each other through communication, play, and creative problem-solving and are introduced to relationship-centric design approaches. Between body-storming, self-reflection, discussions, and theoretical input, the experience provides the framework and the tools to rethink vulnerability, dependency, trust, and responsibility.  https://bamna.ch/Chaos-Cuisine-Intro Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:10:23 +0000 bamna https://bamna.ch/Chaos-Cuisine-Intro CHAOS CUISINE: A QUEST FOR COLLABORATION  Chaos Cuisine is a gamified culinary experience that imitates interdependencies of a “micro-society” and requires collaboration to reach the goals of the game.In this experience, each individual shares their preferred chocolate recipe and choses a base (milk, white, dark) and toppings.  Then this chocolate will be made by other participants in the group. Nobody is making their own chocolate.  However, each person within a group has a role to play. The box in front of you is a toolkit prototype. Each egg contains the necessary tools for each role of the game. During a workshop, each egg is melted into the provided cups to start the game.