Summary: Chris Gaul’s work integrates philosophies and methods from art and design to explore the potential for creating moments of contemplation and curiosity in everyday life. He shares a passion for using design to protect human rights, cure disease, fight climate change, encourage young artists, and build local communities. We met on his couch and spoke about: -cricket teams and learnt behaviour -tweaking your world -interactive design for static objects -k e r n i n g -indigenous australian design -invisible technology -impotence and potential for evil -sail remix -christianity and buddhism -planting an oak tree next to a building built of oak so that the replacement oak is onsite when needed -brain bandwidth -evil vs invasive -lack of direct experience disintegrates empathy -not having a TV in your home -sharing publicly designed spaces with ads More info: https://twitter.com/mrchrisgaul http://www.chrisgaul.net/utslibrary/introduction http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=5048 http://www.urbanwalkabout.com/sydney/blog/post/1274/ http://art.uts.edu.au/index.php/exhibitions/incidental-data/
