Tats à Rotterdam

The most interesting part for me was "Tactics for using ambiguity" which explicitly gives "tricks" taken from the art world to be applied to design ideas.

Ambiguity of information

• Use imprecise representations to emphasize uncertainty (e.g. Mona Lisa's smile)
• Over-interpret data to encourage speculation (e.g. Picasso's Guernica, figured is blurred by overuse of lines)
• Expose inconsistencies to create a space of interpretation (e.g. once in a while, juxtapose images that have no obvious link to one another)
• Cast doubt on sources (ie. where does the data come from) to provoke independent assessment

Ambiguity of context

• Implicate incompatible contexts to disrupt preconceptions (e.g. Duchamp's "Fontaine")
• Add incongruous functions to breach existing genres (e.g. the mix of western/kung-fu genres in Tarantino's "Kill Bill")
• Block expected functionality to comment on familiar products (e.g. Sarah Pennington's mobile phone cover that has no "call" or "receive" buttons)

Ambiguity of relationship

• Offer unaccustomed roles to encourage imagination (e.g. Telegotchi, tamagotchi controlled by telepathy, makes people engage in "telepathic" activities - which they probably would not otherwise)
• Point out things without explaining why (e.g. "fine art photography has shifted from capturing images of important scene to making scenes important by capturing their image")
• Introduce disturbing side effect to question responsibility (e.g. "the Dawn Chorus is a proposal for an artificially-intelligent feeder that uses operant conditioning principles to teach local birds new songs")