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
TEDGlobal 2012

Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Паоло Кардини: Заборавете на мултитаскингот, пробајте монотаскинг

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Луѓето повеќе не се посветени само на готвење - туку истовремено готват, пишуваат пораки, зборуваат на телефон, гледаат YouTube и ставаат слики на интернет од јадењето што го зготвиле. Дизајнерот Паоло Кардини ја доведува во прашање ефикасноста на нашиот мултитаскерски свет и се залага за - вдишете длабоко - „монотаскинг“. Неговите шармантни маски за сматфони испечатени со 3Д принтер би можеле да ни се најдат.
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I'm a designer and an educator.
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Јас сум дизајнер и професор.
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I'm a multitasking person, and I push my students
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Јас сум мултитаскер и ги терам
студентите
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to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process.
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да поминат низ еден многу креативен,
мултитаскен процес на дизајнирање.
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But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?
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Но, колку е навистина ефикасен мултитаскингот?
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Let's consider for a while the option of monotasking.
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Ајде за момент да ја разгледаме опцијата монотаскинг.
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A couple of examples.
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Еве неколку примери.
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Look at that.
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Погледнете.
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This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter)
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Ова е резултат од мојот мултитаскинг (смеа)
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So trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS,
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Се обидувам да готвам, да се јавам на телефон, да напишам СМС,
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and maybe uploading some pictures
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можеби дури и да ставам на интернет слики
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about this awesome barbecue.
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од оваа неверојатна скара.
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So someone tells us the story about supertaskers,
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Ни кажуваат приказни за супертаскерите,
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so this two percent of people who are able
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тоа се тие два проценти на луѓе кои
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to control multitasking environment.
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многу добро се снаоѓаат со мултитаскингот.
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But what about ourselves, and what about our reality?
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Но што со нас, што со нашата реалност?
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When's the last time you really enjoyed
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Кога последен пат навистина уживавте
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just the voice of your friend?
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само слушајќи го гласот на вашиот пријател?
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So this is a project I'm working on,
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Ова е проектот на кој работам,
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and this is a series of front covers
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ова се маски за уназадување
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to downgrade our super, hyper —
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на нашите супер, хипер -
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(Laughter) (Applause)
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(смеа) (аплауз)
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to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones
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уназадување на нашите хипер-мобилни телефони
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into the essence of their function.
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до сржта на нивната функција.
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Another example: Have you ever been to Venice?
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Друг пример: Сте биле ли во Венеција?
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How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets
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Колку е убаво да се изгубиме низ тие мали улици
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on the island.
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на островот.
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But our multitasking reality is pretty different,
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Но нашата мултитаскна реалност е многу
поразлична,
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and full of tons of information.
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и полна со еден куп информации.
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So what about something like that
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А што ќе кажете за оваа работа,
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to rediscover our sense of adventure?
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да го разбудиме чувството
за авантура?
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I know that it could sound pretty weird to speak about mono
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Знам дека звучи чудно да се зборува
за моно (едно)
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when the number of possibilities is so huge,
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кога имаме огромен број на можности,
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but I push you to consider the option of
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но ве молам пробајте
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focusing on just one task,
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да се фокусирате само на една задача,
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or maybe turning your digital senses totally off.
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а ако можете и целосно исклучете ги
дигиталните сетила.
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So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product.
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Денес, секој би можел да си направи
сопствен моно производ.
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Why not? So find your monotask spot
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Зошто да не? Најдете си место за монотаскинг
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within the multitasking world.
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во светот на мултитаскинг.
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Thank you.
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Ви благодарам.
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(Applause)
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(аплауз)
Translated by Gjurgica Ilieva
Reviewed by ALEKSANDAR MITEVSKI

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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

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