The Dashblog

I gave a very informal presentation of the Dashboard over lunch to the delightful Alie Rose from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. This is a brand new design school in Denmark that starts its pilot year in September. It’s very cool, very exciting and you can read all about it here.

Apparently some of the work done by the  Institute Without Boundaries is going to be preserved by the Canadian Center for Architecture. Included in this collection will be another plastic dashboard (the plans for which you can download from our website).  

It’s exciting that the Dashboard will be preserved for future, uninterested generations, but it also sets the stage for at least part of my weekend — 20 hours of printing and peeling and assembling.

If you’re interested to hear what others are saying about the Dashboard, take a look at this blog which seems to compare it to some kind of military design weapon. Charge!

http://kunik-workbench.blogspot.com/

We’ve given the User Guide an update. We encourage you to download it and have a look because that’s where the meat of this project is. There are jokes too. Mostly the changes are writerly things and typos, so, if you’ve already downloaded it, skip it this time.

Ok, so it’s one day after the launch and were already getting some really interesting comments back. There are some really smart people out there and it’s nice when they take the time to write. Perhaps we’ll do a blog post summarizing some of their thinking in the near future. We’re still on Dashboard 1.0.6 but we’re already wondering about a system upgrade. Keep the comments coming!