# PhD > 22 posts tagged PhD on Timo Arnall's site, 2004 to 2014: Making Visible; Olars: physical toy inspired by karl sims evolved creatures; The future is Movie… - Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/tag/phd/ - Updated: 2026-10-13 - Site map for agents: https://www.elasticspace.com/llms.txt --- - [Making Visible](https://www.elasticspace.com/2014/06/making-visible/) (2014): My PhD thesis 'Making Visible', four peer-reviewed articles on interaction design as a cultural, material and mediational practice. Download as PDF or ePub. - [Olars: physical toy inspired by karl sims evolved creatures](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/06/olars-karl-sims-virtual-toy/) (2010): Olars, an electronic interactive toy by Lars M. Vedeler and Ola Vågsholm at The Oslo School of Architecture & Design, inspired by Karl Sims' evolved virtual creatures. - [The future is Movie OS](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/04/movie-os/) (2010): Dan Hon on why Apple reaches for real-life objects in interface design, because real objects have affordances that support effective visual storytelling. - [CCD and computational photography](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/03/ccd-and-computational-photography/) (2010): Three clippings from 2010 on CCDs eclipsing RFID, computational photography altering scenes in post, and cameras becoming part of the fabric of life. - [Augmentia](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/02/augmentia/) (2010): Clippings from Anselm Hook's piece "Augmentia" on the emerging issues around augmented reality, the ownership of the view, and the lens of reality. - [Things](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/02/things/) (2010): Notes on emerging ‘things’ services in 2010: Thinglink’s exploratory homepage, SVPPLY’s continuous navigation of want, Thingd and Allconsuming. - [Pour votre sécurité](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/01/pour-votre-securite/) (2010): A single photograph of ‘Pour votre sécurité’ signage, posted in January 2010. - [Speculative practitioners symposium at the AA](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/07/136379760/) (2009): A note on the AA School's symposium bringing together gaming, film, comics, animation, literature and art as test sites for architectural imagination. - [Aurora: Mozilla Labs concept video by Adaptive Path](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/132847732/) (2009): Aurora, a 2009 concept video by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs, exploring one possible future user experience for the Web. - [Olinda: digital radio prototypes from Schulze & Webb](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/132858896/) (2009): Olinda, a set of home digital radio prototypes by Schulze & Webb showing that social, Web-like experiences can be built on industry standard DAB chip-sets. - [Schulze on design as invention](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/132888279/) (2009): Jack Schulze, quoted in Matt Webb's Scope talk at reboot11: design has to invent, create new ways of doing things and contribute to culture. - [The original Nintendo Wii trailer](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128172779/) (2009): The original Nintendo Wii trailer from back when it was still the "Revolution", the first mainstream glimpse of tangible, gestural gaming. - [Design fictions as a book](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128176899/) (2009): A note on the Nonobject design-fictions book: creating objects that cannot exist to explore what design means at a more profound level. - [Boelen on critical design’s gimmick problem](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128192274/) (2009): Jan Boelen on how journalists covering Guixé, Bey and Dunne & Raby tend to pick out the gimmick and miss the designers' underlying vision. - [What is critical design?](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128200038/) (2009): A short working definition of critical design: speculative proposals that challenge preconceptions about the role of products in everyday life. - [An idea](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128227159/) (2009): A 2009 notebook entry on talking about visualisation in a way that foregrounds the conceptual and cultural practice and backgrounds the dataviz. - [Touch](https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch/) (2006): A research project at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design on what designers should do with NFC, funded by the Research Council of Norway, running since March 2006. - [Graffiti as conversation](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation/) (2005): A short 2005 observation: photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, prior art for spatial annotation on shared public surfaces. - [Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/11/spatial-memory-design-engaged/) (2004): Notes from my Design Engaged 2004 presentation: the Time that land forgot project with Even Westvang, and the research on marking in urban public space. - [Public marking photographs](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/09/public-marking-photographs/) (2004): A 2004 Flickr set of images of stickering, graffiti and flyposting, supporting material for the research into spatial annotation. - [Spatial annotation projects](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/spatial-annotation/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of spatial annotation projects: Murmure, Yellow Arrow, Grafedia, Urban Tapestries and dozens of others from the locative-media field. - [Public markup](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/05/public-markup/) (2004): Research notes on the marking of public space: stickering, graffiti and billboards, looking for patterns in visibility, techniques, process, location, content and audience.