{"id":912,"date":"2010-06-16T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2010-06-14T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:20:19","slug":"miguel-mora-flat-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/miguel-mora-flat-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Mora: Flat Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my quest for innovative cubes I came across the disposable Paper Alarm Clock<\/em> by Miguel Mora<\/a> a graduate from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art. This project is one of a series by Miguel called Flat Futures <\/strong>which investigates the future of paper in the electronic age. Miguel describes the question behind Flat Futures<\/strong> in this way:<\/p>\n

“We live in a ‘paper’ culture. Our everyday life is linked to paper objects, but we have always been led towards a paperless future. What if we could ‘enhance’ paper instead of getting rid of it?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Miguel sees a future in which electronics – processors, batteries and displays – are printed onto flat and flexible surfaces rather than contained inside them and asks how will this change our relationship to these objects.<\/p>\n

In the Paper Alarm Clock<\/em> project Miguel explores these questions by creating an alarm clock out of a sheet of paper that would be screwed up to stop it ringing. The paper could then be straightened out and the alarm clock is ready for the next day. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Considering Flat Futures<\/strong> in relation to the networked system and shareable objects of bookleteer makes these questions even more complex, interesting and relevant. Currently bookleteer allows electronic files to be shared between people who can then print out those files and transform these printed sheets of paper into tangible objects – eBooks and Story Cubes. Flat Futures<\/strong> allows us to imagine a future in which these shareable tangible objects contain electronic components, in which you might email an alarm clock and download a table lamp.<\/p>\n


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