Public Lecture: 12 Feb 2016, at 6:00PM in the auditorium
“The Secret Life of Electronic Objects” – Tatiana Toutikian

Technology is at many times tragic. Before the internet, people were still being crushed by automatic doors, receiving bullying texts from friends, arguing over what channel to watch on the television, and dropping toasters into bathtubs. When these products were conceived, none were meant to be (mis)used for such functions or have been designed bearing such accidents in mind. With the onset of the internet, this gets even more complex. In this lecture, Tatiana Toutikian will examine the role and importance of critical and speculative design as a discipline that challenges the design of products today by considering ethical and moral factors.

About the lecturer

Tatiana Toutikian graduated with a BA in Product Design & Interior Architecture from Alba in 2012. She is now a MA Candidate in Collaborative + Industrial Design at Aalto University in Helsinki. She has simultaneously spent a year in the Helsinki Media Lab working on embodied interaction and tangible & auditory interface design. She has worked in Beirut, Helsinki, Shanghai and Japan on projects related to technology and user experience design . Her vision is to create meaningful interactions between people and physical/digital objects and look at the invisible space in between.