Kinetic optimism studio

Work

Kinetic optimism is an experience innovation studio designing new forms of inhabiting technology with our humanity. 

We apply the disruptive energy of social imagination - a new organization of meaning - revealing possibilities, new roles, and systems of relations through which emergent technology becomes an active participant in shared human experience.

 

Inviting Unexpected Harmonies

We live in an anxious era - a culture of the lowered gaze - taking the vibrant possibility of everyday life for granted. Our openness, curiosity, and resonance are numbed.

We apply techno-social situation as an emergent and transformative experience design framework, serving as a catalyst for designing a more resonant and meaningful relation to the world.

A kind of balance and harmony with which you positively relate to the world amid the anxiety or flat monotony of daily automatism you may find around you.

In this framework, adaptive technology evolves beyond being a mere tool to become an active participant within the context of our intentions, emotions and relations. It acts as a Companion that learns to resonate with our intentions, values, emotions and interactions, inviting moments of unexpected harmonies and expanding the ways people and technology co-participate in shared experiences.

Innovation Platforms

Our design process 
generates experience energy - a transformative perspective - making room for new possibilities and inviting new roles and relations through which products & systems can become active participants in meaningful human experience.

We see networked, adaptive, and always-on digital products as an open structure, engaging in search for possibilities, where people and technology together unlock the experiential potential of every moment.

This is a sample of how we think, learn, care, imagine, and design new possibilities of transformative experiences - not a technical documentation of actual projects

 

Resonance

What we see _ Transformative Perspective

Software_Defined_Vehicle

Experience & Service Innovation Platform

Emotional_companion

ML/AI supporting our emotional reaction to situations

Curriculum_of_new_design_situation

What we see _ New design situation

Surplus_of_social_possibility

Unlocking social possibility, inviting relations and moments of meaning

Social_accessories

Unlocking participatory potential of products

Electriquette

Electrification as social innovation

 

Inviting Unexpected Harmonies - sample

This sample of experience narratives, aims at articulating fresh set of design principles for designing unexpected harmonies in everyday techno-social situations. We are architecting techno-social situations where people and technology together unlock the experiential potential of everyday moments, ... and each other.

Developing influential experience narratives /aka use cases/ that uncover design principles organizing awareness of new possibilities.

Experience design can invite a transformative atmosphere and animate the conversation we are having with the world through the use and presence of things in our orbit - our design process engages them as instruments to compose dynamic harmonies with the possibilities of the moment in front of us. 

 

Walk_with_me

Exploring new model of collaboration between people and technology

Electro_tankers

Electriquette

Ring_my_bell / US patent granted

Connected civility

Moment_of_silence

Situated sound experience

Electro_wink

Electriquette

Free_lil_electric_libraries

Electriquette

Chime_in

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

Social_headphones

Equipping products with social skills

Sound_compass

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

It’s_going_to_rain

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

Free_range_umbrellas

Improvisation & mobility

Curious_mirror

Equipping products with social presence

Dash

Emotive interface of our relationship with connected car

Get_well_glow

Supporting people in treatment and their empathetic relations 

Kin

Emotive interface of our relationship with connected car

Small_talk_bus_stop

Employing ML/AI to unlock surplus of social possibility

 

Experience Energy Systems

Experience energy systems are generative platforms, choreographing flow of meaningful moments of human experience / aka user journey /

Generating experience energy is about articulating core emotional & participatory thread that runs across every experience, providing intentional energy, organizing meaning and purpose, and inviting holistic feeling throughout the entire experience system. 

 

Blueprint

Unlocking Experiential Energy of Anticipation

Transformative Encounters

Ford Experience Center FXC - dealer visit curriculum

Blueprint / Lincoln

Unlocking Experiential Energy of Anticipation