A group of 12 design students from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, along with lead faculty Simon Johnston and teaching assistant Josh Finklea, conducted an experimental term working unplugged, without computers and smartphones for the first six weeks, using exclusively traditional analog methods and techniques to create powerful communication.
We explored how our sensibilities and skill sets could be expanded through working unplugged, and analyzed how we could take that experience back into our normal digital working life. By stepping away from our digital dependence, even for a while, could we redefine a balance between technology and daily life? The result of this project was an exhibition in both Berlin and Los Angeles: Haupstadt Frottage, Urban Haiku & Low-Tech Parametrics.