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 shared experience, and social practice.

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

Emotional_companion - Don’t let the idiots ruin your day

Using ML/AI to support our emotional reaction to a situation

Electriquette

Designing the social “components” together with the technical components as a systemic whole, to foster adoption of electrified mobility as social practice.

Mobility_Commons

Designing for emergent techno-social frameworks

Curriculum_of_new_design_situation

What we see _ New design situation

Living_with_technology

Experience design framework

Surplus_of_social_possibility

Unlocking social possibility, inviting relations and moments of meaning

Social_accessories

Unlocking participatory potential of products

Adaptive asset defined by collaboration

Experience & Service Innovation Platform - unlocking experiential potential of SDV

 

Inviting Unexpected Harmonies - sample

This sample of design strategies & 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

Intentionally expanding ways how people and adaptive technology co-participate in experience - designing social and technological “components” as part of systemic whole.

Coming_home

Calm technology - inviting awareness of our relations and emotions

It’s_going_to_rain

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

Supporting human experience in existential crisis

Supporting human experience through life-changing medical decisions and treatments.

Small_talk_bus_stop

Employing ML/AI to unlock surplus of social possibility

Expressive and impressive interface

Emotive interface of our expanding relationship with always-on adaptive technology.

Ring_my_bell

Connected civility - how objects and systems can act as disarming instigators of embodied social values and relationships. * US Patent granted

Free_range_umbrellas

Improvisation & mobility - how objects and systems can act as disarming instigators of embodied social values and relationships - strangers need strange moments together

Moment_of_silence

Situated sound experience

Curious_mirror

Equipping products with social presence

Get_well_glow

Supporting people in treatment and their empathetic relations 

Electro_wink

Electriquette - designing the social “components” together with the technical components as a systemic whole, to foster adoption of electrified mobility as social practice.

Sound_compass

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

Free_lil_electric_libraries

Electriquette - fostering adoption of electric mobility as composition of technical artifacts and social social systems.

Social_headphones

Equipping products with social skills

Chime_in

Sound as a dynamic interface of connected experience

 

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. 

 

An experience prototyping platform bringing the tangible and intangible brand and product essence together to develop new experiences and moments of genuine human connection.

 

Emissaries of Anticipation

Adaptive system to design a dynamic repertoire of unique experiences fostering the direct relationship between the expecting owner and their new vehicle.

Emotional on-boarding

Choreographing experiential energy of resonant relationship.

Transformative Encounters

Ford Experience Center FXC - visit curriculum