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Israeli designer Dor Tal has designed a set of gadgets that monitor data generated on social networks to help users predict the future and take action ahead of time (+ movie).

Dor Tal’s Future Control project imagines a personal horoscope built on your data that could predict everything from when you’re most likely to go to the gym, to what mood your partner is going to be in when they get home.

Dor Tal‘s concept works in two ways. The first requires the user to download an app on to their smartphone that scours social networks for any data generated about the user, or other people and organisations that might affect them. An algorithm then detects any patterns of behaviour that could be forecast ahead of time. The more accounts the user adds, including credit card information, Google, Apple and Facebook, the more intelligent the device becomes.

“When it identifies a predictable action, a recommended response for solving the problem or enhancing the experience is calculated and presented,” explained Dor Tal.

The second part of the project is called Predictables: two devices that present that data to the user. The first uses a pico projector, which displays a timeline with a series of floating bubbles indicating actions the user can take.

The colour scheme highlights how far in the future the action might be: green indicates behaviour days ahead, where as red tells the user these actions should be taken today.

If the user is moving around, the same display can be projected on to the their hand via a smartwatch. Both displays utilise gesture control, allowing the user to interact with the display with his or her hands.

“One interesting aspect of the interaction, similar to what happens in the Back to the Future films, is that the predictions continuously change as the user acts and reacts in present time,” said Tal.

Future Control was part of Tal’s graduation project from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. The designer wanted to explore our obsession with trying to predict the future.

“From the movement of the stars to modern technology, man has searched for patterns that can indicate the imminent future,” explained Tal. “The biggest challenge of this project is to create the forecasting algorithms, but I believe this will happen sooner than expected.”

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News: Japanese studio SANAA has presented designs for a new campus for Israel’s leading design school within Jerusalem’s historic Russian Compound.

Scheduled for completion in 2017, the new 37,000 square-metre campus for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design will be constructed in one of Jerusalem’s oldest districts, between the Holy Trinity Cathedral and the Museum of Underground Prisoners.

Architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA are working alongside local firm Nir-Kutz Architects on the design of the building, which is intended to encourage collaboration between the eight traditionally separate departments of the school.

Classrooms and studios will be arranged over a series of staggered horizontal slabs that correspond with the site’s natural topography. Numerous ramps and staircases will connect the split levels, while voids in the floorplates will create balconies between floors and increase natural light.

The plans also include a pair of auditoriums, public exhibition galleries and cafes for both students and visitors.

Construction is expected to commence at the end of next year, made possible by a $25 million donation from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.

Sejima and Nishizawa, who were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010, have also recently completed a circular production hall at the Vitra Campus in Germany and a sister gallery to the Musée du Louvre in France.

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Here’s a project description from the design team:

The site of the new campus for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is located on the top of a hill in the Russian Compound, overlooking the old city of Jerusalem. The Academy includes several departments comprised of studios, classrooms, workshops and administration offices and of public areas such as exhibition galleries, a store, a café and a cafeteria.

The building is composed of slabs. The slabs are stacked following the natural gradient of the landscape, and all are at different levels. Throughout both the exterior and the interior of the building, the slabs are connected through ramps and stairs so that it is possible to walk freely from one to the other, moving horizontally and vertically.

On the exterior, the slabs connect to form a terraced roof overlooking the city. On the interior, the slabs are detached from one another to create vertical void spaces throughout the building. The void spaces allow visual connection between different parts of the program that are hosted on each slab. As a consequence, each part of the building maintains its independence, but at the same time is fully connected with all other parts. Because of the layout of the slabs, natural light can filter freely through the building both from above and from the sides, penetrating also in those spaces that sit in the middle of the largest footprint areas.

The scale of the building is determined by its context and by its program. The volume is composed to fit properly within the city of Jerusalem and, at the same time, accommodate the spaces necessary for students and faculty of the Academy to work comfortably. The building also fits into the natural context as it mimics the terraced landscape, and resonates with its colour and texture.

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This school table by industrial design students Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno is specifically designed to form a safe shelter for pupils during earthquakes.

It’s common practice for school children to hide under their desks when an earthquake strikes but standard tables are not built for the purpose and can trap those sheltering underneath if they collapse in the wrong way.

The students considered different collapse scenarios and the need to maintain an escape route, as well as the day-to day requirements of teaching and cleaning.

The table will be presented at Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan this month as part of a showcase of work by students from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, entitled Design Bonanza Bezalel.

Above: detail of a crush zone element, photograph by Ido Bruno

It’s also been nominated for the Design Museum’s design of the year award, due to be announced on 23 April.

Above: 1000 kg steel and concrete block at moment of impact, photograph by Ido Bruno

Dezeen are media partners for Ventura Lambrate, which takes place from 17 to 22 April. Download a map and guide to Ventura Lambrate here and see all our stories about Milan 2012 here.

Above: 1000 kg impact test, photograph by Ido Bruno

Studio photographs are by Tzur Kotzer.

Above: Arthur Brutter demonstrating rescue tunnel, photograph by Ido Bruno

Here are some more details from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design:

At any given time, more than 300,000,000 pupils worldwide are facing impending danger because their schools are not built to withstand an earthquake. While it is common to instruct pupils to crawl under tables in case of an earthquake, existing classroom tables often turn into lethal traps for those taking refuge.

Above: table after 1000 kg sack impact test, photograph by Ido Bruno

This table is designed for a range of collapse scenarios. It provides a comprehensive solution by creating both covering, protection and a passageway for rescue team accessibility.

Above: standard school table impact test, photograph by Ivan Bianchini.

To date, the patent-pending design has successfully withstood a series of rigorous vertical impact tests and is currently awaiting official approval of the world-leading Structural Engineering department of Padua University, Italy.

Above: 500 kg impact test,photograph by Ivan Bianchini.

Earthquake table is light enough for two children to lift and move, as well as adapted to classroom cleaning and other routine, non-emergency needs.

Above: 800 kg sack impact test, photograph by Ivan Bianchini.

Design Bonanza Bezalel at Ventura Lambrate
Via Massimiano 6,
20134 Milan
Tuesday 17 – Sunday 22 April, 10:00 – 20:00

Above: 1000 kg impact test, photograph by Ivan Bianchini.

For those who can’t ever have too many shoes, these 16 modular components combine to make 256 different pairs. 

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The MyShell256 shoes by graduate designer Sharon Golan are each assembled from four parts, strapped to the wearer’s foot with silicon bands.

The rigid thermoplastic pieces move independently as the foot flexes with no connecting bridge between the heel and ball of the foot, much like Julian Hakes’ Mojito Shoe.

Golan developed the range while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem – see more work by the academy’s graduates here.

She plans to develop a range or jewellery and bags using the same concept.

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Here are some more details from Sharon Golan:

‏My shoe collection originated from a minimalistic design concept, which at the same time allows for great variety.

‏The inspiration came from the terrestrial crust, which is shaped by internal pressure and stress- it cracks, swells, moves,
and responds to any changes, in the same way as the foot.
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My set of shoes combines basic shapes, different techniques with industrial materials.
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16 modular units are inspired by four models – parts of fruit peel, egg, earth, and shell.
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These units are can be assembled using silicon-rubber bands, resulting in 256 different shaped shoes.

‏The project is accompanied by an interactive internet site (coming soon), showing the entire set of shoes.

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