Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine

German
328 pages, approx. 250 illustrations, mainly in color
25 x 19 cm, soft cover
Vitra Design Museum and authors, 2017

Still science fiction just a few decades ago, robots and robotic systems are now conquering our everyday lives. Design plays a crucial role in this because it is designers who design the interface between humans and machines. Hello, Robot . shows intelligent machines in industry and the military; in the children's room and in the retirement home; while shopping and having sex; in art, in computer games and of course in film and literature. Detailed essays and interviews explore the question of how we deal with the fact that our environment is becoming increasingly digital, smarter and more autonomous. They shed light on our - often ambivalent - relationship with new technologies and broaden our perspective on the ethical and political questions that arise. With contributions and works by Douglas Coupland, Dunne & Raby, Gesche Joost, robotlab, Bruce Sterling and many others.

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine was laid out by an algorithm in collaboration with Double Standards, Berlin. Cover illustration: Christoph Niemann.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum (February 11th - May 14th, 2017), the MAK (June 21st - October 1st, 2017) and the Design museum Gent (October 27th, 2017 - April 15th, 2018).

Edited by Mateo Kries, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Amelie Klein; with contributions by Rosi Braidotti, Douglas Coupland, Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby (Dunne & Raby), Christoph Engemann, Paul Feigelfeld, Gesche Joost, Amelie Klein, Carlo Ratti, Bruce Sterling, Marlies Wirth and others