FRAME - The laboratory
2011
Frame is an Online Design laboratory for a community of 3 kind of actors: the designers - the university - the industries - Using the metaphor of the “laboratory”, Frame aims to create and support online design communities by offering collaboration tools and visibility to three categories of users: Designers, Universities and Companies. Frame acts as an idea incubator and as a platform where designers can trace the creative process, deposit documentation and resources and visualize each step of a project's progress. Each project is visualized as a polygon. Each face of the polygon represent a Project's team player and the colored aura, or "soul" around the project represents the activity level so that a user can quickly get visual feedback on the project status. Additional information, such as project description, is obtained by rolling over an inner side of a given polygon. The interface provides with visualization options such as grouping modalities, chronological order, project families, etc. As a collaborative platform Frame allow users to: - Set their availability (i'm traveling in NY for a week and am available on the net to meet up and be part of a specific task of the project process) - Define and build an International project team according to required skill-sets - Inspect the project process by accessing the information about the relation between people and documents in real time - Access, as a project initiator (industry), the design process overview, with the possibility of leaving comments and ratings - Develop their reputation based on publicly available evaluations and feedback from project leaders. Frame was selected as one of the 5 most relevant projects by The "Ministero Italiano di Politiche e Sviluppo"- Rome was exhibited at " La Triennale di Milano"- Milan was exhibited at "Design in Mostra" - Naples was written up on "Nova 24 del Sole 24" - insert on technology on Italian newspaper Team members Gianpaolo Tucci, Caterina Fiorentino, Mauro d'Alessandro, Claudio Moderini 2009
