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Backslash Communication by Pedro Oliveira & Xuedi Chen is a winner of the 2016 Bronze A' Design Award in Social Design.
Backslash is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Technology has been playing an important role in this new wave of protests, from Arab Spring to Occupy Central. Backslash is a series of functional devices designed for protests of the future. Created through the lens of critical design, Backslash aims to retain the right to connect in protest sites, and riots situations through creative use of technologies for communication.
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Backslash by Pedro Oliveira & Xuedi Chen
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Social Design Award Winner in 2016.
Bronze Winner
Backslash Communication
Backslash is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Backslash is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Backslash splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Pedro Oliveira & Xuedi Chen
Pedro G. C. Oliveira is a Brazilian Art Director and Interactive Designer based in New York City, currently a research resident at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in NYU. His work history combines experiences in visual-effects, graphic design and motion graphics, interfaces and applications, interactive installations and code-generated art pieces. It is his strong belief, that creative solutions should be merged with technological resources and information not only in the name of innovation, but also to stimulate human potential and to improve human relations. Xuedi Chen is a Brooklyn-based designer and educator whose multi-disciplinary work spans the world of embedded electronics, industrial design, architecture, fashion, robotics and installation. She embraces the intersection of the digital and physical with a passion towards innovative use of materials, methods, and technologies.
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Backslash
Backslash is a space to research the relationship between protests and technology, cultivating dialog about freedom of expression, riots and disruptive tech. It explores the colorful global culture of dissent and challenges the role of technology in protests of the future with special interest in the technologies that could help to start this conversation. Backslash critically examines current parameters to expose the imbalance, implant questions and start a conversation about the tense relationship between technology and protest.
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