For our design process, we explore the potential of language and poetry—and the ways they influence each other. As Patrizia Marti (Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Siena) states, “Poetry is an alternative to functional design—it invites us to reflect on what we do and how we do it.”
Building on the poetry workshops from the course Style System Methods (2016), we continue experimenting by writing poems across five stations that are full of playfulness, curiosity, and rules—with unexpected results.
→ Conversations: We remix messages from our chat histories.
→ Found Poetry: Inspired by artist Natalie Czech, we black out or reconnect selected words in complex texts.
→ Potential Poetry: Using grammar and numbers, we generate new texts.
→ Typestracts: We create visual poems on typewriters—a definite highlight.
→ Combinatorial Systems: Our poems emerge from observations. Inspired by the Oulipo writers’ collective.