Calm Technology is a design approach that allows people to be more human. Its support is quietly but surely spreading around the world. In November, Amber Case, founder of Calm Tech Institute, visited Kyoto to report on the opening of the institute's first overseas base and the launch of a new certification program.
"A good tool is like a hammer: The hammer doesn't do anything. We use the hammer, and when we use it well, it becomes an extension of our hand. But a lot of technology today is like a lever that a lab rat has to push, and it always wants us to push something," says Amber Case.
Case explained this at an event held at the mui Lab office in Kyoto in mid-November. mui Lab is a Kyoto-based startup that aims to create interior design for the digital age. They are developing the mui board, a piece of wood on which pictures and text appear. The mui board usually blends into the wall or table as part of a room's interior and goes unnoticed, but when you touch it, icons and text appear, and you can adjust the room's lighting and music, or write notes on the board and send them to your family.
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