considering early input devices with natural motion and purpose, situated within built objects and playing off their already established physical properties and affordances
Special purpose analogue devices properly integrated within built environments
how ordinary people get creative with tools and materials to solve every day problems
the physicality of machinery vs opaque and obfuscating digital technology
simple mechanical principles under-utilised, there are engineering solutions for a lot of daily tasks that are difficult to discover - think of the popularity of eg ‘life hacks’, ‘home hacks’, ‘storage solutions’ but no dedicated discussions of engineering for these problems, lack of knowledge and confidence for many to figure these things out, or little outlet to share them when they do - very ad-hoc social media spreading or search engine connecting ideas - an undervalued important function of a social web - undereducation in general solutions engineering in public education

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animation and puppetry and automata

secondary = sympathetic = incidental = complimentary = dependent motion/movement in various adjacent art forms
on agency of objects
clothing as character
animation is acting, performance
automated performance
automated puppetry
VR and 3D models as digital puppetry, 3D animation the performance of it
automatons through the ages
automaton aesthetic, hidden mechanisms and visible mechanisms, uncanny valley