Research lines and Bibliography

Research lines:

Orator and Oracle

> rhetoric / dialectic

> ancient greek philosophers / sophist schools

> greek goods and myths

Psychology / Psychoanalysis

> general concepts

> Freud, Bion, Winnicot...

> mental processes

> personality / conflicts / borderlines ...

> treatments / mental health cases

> myths

> dreams and fantasy

Neuroscience

> relationship with the behaviors / conduct

> how the brain works (general and mental disease).

Bibliography:

> "Freud" - Jonathan Lear (Routledge 2005)

> "Sigmund Freud Obras completas" ["Sigmund Freud Complete works"] - Freud (Amorrortu editores - 1976 - Spanish)

> La interpretación de los sueños [The interpretation of the Dreams]

> Dora, pequeño Hans y otros [Dora's, little Hans and other Cases]

> Totem and Tabu

> "Enferman las mariposas del Alma?" - Francisco Mora (Alianza Editorial - 2004 - Spanish)

>"Cómo funciona el cerebro" [How the brain works] - Francisco Mora (Alianza Editorial - 2005 - Spanish)

>"La vita quotidiana degli Dei greci" [Greek Gods everyday life] - Giulia Sissa / Marcel Detienne (Editori Laterza - 2001 - Italian)

>"El universo, los dioses, los hombres" [Universe, Gods, Human] - Jean-Pierre Vernant (Anagrama - 2000 - Spanish)

>"Aproximaciones de las neurosciencias a la conducta" María Corsi (Manual Moderno - 2004 - Spanish)

> "Violencia y Perversidad" (Revista de Psicoanalaisis APA -2000 - Spanish)

> Different articles from Revista de Psicoanalisis APA (1988 - 1989 - Spanish)

> "Las Musas" [Muse] - Walter F. Otto (Ediciones Siruela - 2005 - Spanish)

> "Il linguaggio dei simboli" - Nadia Julien (Oscar Saggi Mondadori - 1997 - Italian)

>"Figure , idoli, maschere" - Jean-Pierre Vernant (Il Saggiatore - 2001 - Italian)

>"Un filosofo al cinema" - Umberto Curi (Tascabili Bompiani - 2006 - Italian)

What it is About...

Why a blog?

From an advice, to use it as a tool during the design process: to record ideas, links, progress and to keep everything organize (I am very bad at that).

As well to help me to easily document the project and hopefully have better mark than last year.

Writing down different ideas I am more conscious of the Why's, reflecting, and answering to myself questions I would find during the process. In some way would be like an auto-therapy-design_process.

That means the main objective is personal.

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This first post is to try to define the basic idea and where this project starts.

Precedents:

During my first year at MA Digital Media (CSM) I emphasized for first time in physical interaction design.

Through the use of Arduino, as a tool able to connect physical and digital world, I developed a sound base project that was suppose to be a personal analysis of how voice/music/sound are able to influence on the user.

The result was a digital radio (with 7 fixed content channels) drove by a ultrasonic sensor (channels changed depending of the distance between the user and the radio).

The concept of Orator came out as a character able to convince and "modify" listeners feelings by the use of his voice/sound/noise.

It is not only a question of content or feature of the voice but a whole (content, voice, skills, gesture, understanding and delivery).

I believe everything is a question of shades/details and at the same time it is what difference great than the rest.

That means a good Orator should be like a mixer able to combine the different ingredients properly. For do that he need non only the ingredient (skills) but an excellent brain and a conscious or unconscious knowledge of how psychology ("study of the mind") works...

... and from here starts the Unit3 project.

Beginning:

I believe psychology should be an important part of interaction design, as I believe a good understanding of perception, how to deliver and reception are basic to an interactive work.

I come from a psychoanalyst parents, and in some way or another (I did therapy too) Freud, his henchmen and detractors where always precent.

On the other hand psychoanalysis for me means try to understand what's going on not only in general but inside my head too.