ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paolo Cardini - Designer
Paolo Cardini is a product designer who asks serious questions about how we live -- and answers them with whimsical and playful designs.

Why you should listen

Paolo Cardini likes asking some important questions about the way we live, like: Does multitasking actually help us become more efficient? How far will social networking go? Who are the players in the myriad conflicts in the Arab world? What is the next frontier in product development? -- and trying to answer them with playful designs, like his I Like Sit chaise lounge, which updates your Facebook status depending on your position, and MiddleField, a foosball table depicting different players in the Middle East. For TEDGlobal 2012 Cardini created a unique product called the MONOtask project. To help you deal with your overly multitasked life, Cardini has designed 3D-printed smartphone covers that "downgrade" your phone to be much dumber. Download your own cover plans and start monotasking >>

Cardini is currently an MFA Design Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.

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TEDGlobal 2012

Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Paolo Cardini: Oblideu la multitasca, proveu la monotasca

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Avui ja no es cuina i prou, es cuina, s'envien SMS, es parla per telèfon, es veuen vídeos a YouTube i es pengen fotos del magnífic menjar que s'ha fet. El dissenyador Paolo Cardini qüestiona l'eficàcia de la multitasca i proposa la... d'això... 'monotasca'. Les seves imatges encisadores en 3D d'smartphones són prou il·lustratives.
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I'm a designerdissenyador and an educatoreducador.
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Sóc dissenyador i educador.
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I'm a multitaskingmultitasca personpersona, and I pushempènyer my studentsestudiants
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Sóc bo en la multitasca i empenyo els meus alumnes
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to flyvolar througha través a very creativecreatiu, multitaskingmultitasca designdisseny processprocés.
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en un procés de disseny molt creatiu i de multitasca.
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But how efficienteficient is, really, this multitaskingmultitasca?
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Però és la multitasca eficaç de debò?
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Let's considerconsidereu for a while the optionopció of monotaskingmonotasking.
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Pensem un moment en l'opció de la monotasca.
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A coupleparella of examplesexemples.
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Un parell d'exemples.
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Look at that.
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Mireu.
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This is my multitaskingmultitasca activityactivitat resultresultat. (LaughterRiure)
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El resultat de la meva multitasca. (Riures)
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So tryingintentant to cookcuinar, answeringresponent the phonetelèfon, writingescrivint SMSSMS,
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Proveu de cuinar, respondre al telèfon, escriure un SMS,
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and maybe uploadingpujar some picturesimatges
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i potser penjar alguna foto
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about this awesomeincreïble barbecuebarbacoa.
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de la magnífica barbacoa.
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So someonealgú tellsli diu us the storyhistòria about supertaskerssupertaskers,
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I algú ens parla dels supertascadors,
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so this two percentpercentatge of people who are ablecapaç
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i del 2% de la població que pot
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to controlcontrol multitaskingmultitasca environmentmedi ambient.
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gestionar la multitasca.
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But what about ourselvesnosaltres mateixos, and what about our realityrealitat?
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Però pensem en nosaltres i en la realitat.
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When'sQuan de the last time you really enjoyedgaudit
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Quan vau gaudir per últim cop
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just the voiceveu of your friendamic?
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només de la veu d'un amic?
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So this is a projectprojecte I'm workingtreball on,
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Així que ara treballo en aquest projecte
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and this is a seriessèrie of frontfront coverscobertes
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(aquí en teniu unes imatges)
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to downgradebaixar de categoria our supersuper, hyperhiper
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per desactualitzar els nostres súper-hiper...
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(LaughterRiure) (ApplauseAplaudiments)
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(Riures i aplaudiments)
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to downgradebaixar de categoria our supersuper, hyper-mobilehiper-mobile phonestelèfons
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per desactualitzar els nostres súper-hipermòbils
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into the essenceessència of theirels seus functionfunció.
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i tornar-los a l'escencial.
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AnotherUn altre exampleexemple: Have you ever been to VeniceVenècia?
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Un altre exemple. Heu estat mai a Venècia?
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How beautifulbonic it is to loseperdre ourselvesnosaltres mateixos in these little streetscarrers
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Que bonic que és perdre's en aquells carrerons
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on the islandilla.
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de l'illa.
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But our multitaskingmultitasca realityrealitat is prettybonic differentdiferent,
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Però la multitasca ho fa un xic diferent
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and fullple of tonstones of informationinformació.
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amb informació infinita.
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So what about something like that
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Què us semblaria una cosa així
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to rediscoverredescobrir our sensesentit of adventureaventura?
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per revifar l'esperit aventurer?
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I know that it could soundso prettybonic weirdestrany to speakparlar about monomico
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Sé que pot sonar estrany parlar de mono
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when the numbernúmero of possibilitiespossibilitats is so hugeenorme,
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quan hi ha tantes possibilitats,
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but I pushempènyer you to considerconsidereu the optionopció of
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però considereu l'opció de centrar-vos
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focusingcentrat on just one tasktasca,
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en una sola tasca
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or maybe turningtornejat your digitaldigital sensessentits totallytotalment off.
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o de desconnectar del tot els sentits digitals.
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So nowadaysavui dia, everyonetothom could produceproduir his monomico productproducte.
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Avui tothom pot crear un producte mono.
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Why not? So find your monotaskmonotask spotlloc
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Per què no? Trobeu un buit al mercat de la monotasca
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withindins the multitaskingmultitasca worldmón.
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en un món de multitasca.
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Thank you.
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Gràcies.
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(ApplauseAplaudiments)
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(Aplaudiments)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paolo Cardini - Designer
Paolo Cardini is a product designer who asks serious questions about how we live -- and answers them with whimsical and playful designs.

Why you should listen

Paolo Cardini likes asking some important questions about the way we live, like: Does multitasking actually help us become more efficient? How far will social networking go? Who are the players in the myriad conflicts in the Arab world? What is the next frontier in product development? -- and trying to answer them with playful designs, like his I Like Sit chaise lounge, which updates your Facebook status depending on your position, and MiddleField, a foosball table depicting different players in the Middle East. For TEDGlobal 2012 Cardini created a unique product called the MONOtask project. To help you deal with your overly multitasked life, Cardini has designed 3D-printed smartphone covers that "downgrade" your phone to be much dumber. Download your own cover plans and start monotasking >>

Cardini is currently an MFA Design Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.

More profile about the speaker
Paolo Cardini | Speaker | TED.com