This project will address key questions concerning new social computing paradigms for designing hybrid products and how we might engage with hybridity using different design approaches. We take the notion of the ‘relic‘ as a provocation, an approach to developing and experimenting in design and use the term ‘soul‘ not because we aim to understand existence, but to emphasise the way that objects relate back to a ‘lived’ experience.
Earlier work examined the role of technologies in the guitar relic’ing community, envisioning how hybrid-relic guitars could could serve to provoke a response that would enable consideration towards the design of hybrid products and services. This work led to discussions with other disciplines in music, history, the digital humanities and robotics about the concept of the ‘relic’. This project will now bring these disciplines together to understand the different ways in which HCI, technology and the arts/humanities can work together to inform new approaches to design.
Project partners: The Bate Collection & BeLa
Project start date 1.10.2023 – 30.9.2024
Hybrid Relics: Socially Embedding the South in Design is a Horizon Agile Round 3 project
Introduction blog, mid blogs here & here
Outputs: Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities
More on the project here
Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of
Nottingham Innovation Park, Triumph Road, Nottingham,
NG7 2TU
horizon@nottingham.ac.uk
