My presentation at the IxD Bauhaus event in Seattle.

1. IxD BAUHAUS
what happens next?!
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2. HELLO!
I’m Rahul
[@rahulsen79 or at
www.future-sense.net]
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3. OVERWHELMED
Thank You
[Mike, Albert, Windows Phone,
AIGA, IxDA, Nick, Duane, Ian, Jon,
&
All my Seattle friends who came!]
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4. MY BACKGROUND
theatre architecture interaction design
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5. “STOCKHOME”. (SWEDEN = SWITZERLAND)
SEATTLE
KOLKATA
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6. I WORK HERE
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7. WE’RE 41 YEARS OLD!
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8. WE WINDOWS PHONE 7
Spotify for Windows Phone, coming soon…
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9. WHY AM I HERE?
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10. MARK TWAIN SAID IT BEST.
“History doesn't repeat
itself - at best it
sometimes rhymes…”
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11. MY HYPOTHESIS.
The The IxD
Bauhaus Bauhaus
(1919-33) (Now)
What Happened Soon After. What Might Happen Soon After.
What Can History Teach Us.
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12. Rewind
Lets start at sometime near the
1800s.
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13. GOTHIC REVIVAL & NATURE ENVY
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14. ART NOUVEAU, ARTS & CRAFTS…
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15. MIES SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
“Less is More.”
Mies van der Rohe
made these words famous.
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16. THE BARCELONA PAVILLION- A LANDMARK
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17. THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE
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18. THE BAUHAUS’ HISTORICAL SETTING
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
GOTHIC REVIVAL
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
ART NOUVEAU
ART-DECO
THE
INTERNATIONAL
STYLE
THE
BAUHAUS
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19. REFRESH
The The Bauhaus Movement was based
on a German revival of purer,
Bauhaus honest design representation in
architecture, art, typography and
product design. It’s philosophy
celebrated austere functionalism
(1919-33) with little or no ornamentation.
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20. REMEMBERING THE BAUHAUS
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21. WHAT DID THE BAUHAUS ACHIEVE?
reduction purity production order
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22. WHY WAS THE BAUHAUS CRITICIZED?
monotonous inhuman sterile elitist
‘PLAYTIME’ (JACQUES TATI, 1967)
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23. LEARNING FROM DESIGN HISTORY
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
GOTHIC REVIVAL
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
ART NOUVEAU
ART-DECO
THE
INTERNATIONAL
STYLE
THE BAUHAUS
POST - MODERNISM
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24. POST-MODERNISM
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25. POST-MODERNISM
wit reference deconstruction ornament
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26. TO SUMMARIZE
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
GOTHIC REVIVAL
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
ART NOUVEAU
NATURE ENVY ART-DECO
FUNCTIONALISM
THE
INTERNATIONAL
STYLE
THE BAUHAUS
WIT, ORNAMENT,
POST - MODERNISM
REFERENCE
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27. History
Rhyming
Today.
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28. REALISM ENVY : DESKTOP UI
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29. PHYSICAL MIMICRY : UI SKEUMORPHISM
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30. IxD HISTORY IN PROGRESS
1978 2010
EARLY GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES
REAL-WORLD DESKTOP METAPHORS
‘THE WEB LOOK’
SKEUMORPHISM
IXD BAUHAUS
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31. THE IxD BAUHAUS
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32. DEFINE
The IxD The IxD Bauhaus could be defined
as a return to purity and honesty in
visual interaction experiences - with
a focus on content rather than
Bauhaus chrome, and a pursuit of authentic
digital experiences rather than
nostalgia and object envy.
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33. WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE BAUHAUS?
1. Not all material is worthy of
celebration.
2. Beauty is in the details,
construction & structure.
3. Ensuring familiarity without
losing brand identity.
4. Software processes are driving
the IxD Bauhaus.
5. When all facades are glass, it’s
hard to know where the door
is.
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34. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Representation
Material
Construction
Nostalgia
Envy
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35. REPRESENTATION : CARRIED AWAY BY ‘MATERIAL RESOLUTION’
plastic concrete paint pixels
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36. NOSTALGIC ENVY
wood nature realism objects
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37. A REDUCTION TO BASICS.
steel concrete painting pixels
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38. NEW DRIVERS FOR CONSTRUCTION.
modular prefab abstraction _________?
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39. BERNARD TSCHUMI
Built
Architecture
decays with
time.
Traditional built architecture.
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40. A TRADITIONAL DIFFERENCE
Built Digital
architecture architecture
decays with grows with
time. time.
Architecture, Furniture, Art – in the Interactive experiences and all that’s coming
traditional sense of the word. round the corner.
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41. IxD MATERIALS TO PLAY WITH
content time data others…
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42. OLD LINGERING FORMS OF ENVY
PHYSICALITY
3D
REALITY
AUGMENTED REALITY
GESTURE
NATURAL USER INTERFACES
others…
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43. TO CONCLUDE…
What is an
IxD Post
Modernism
going to be?
Just provoking thought.

44. Thank You.