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: Esqueça multitarefa, tente monotarefa

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As pessoas não estão mais apenas cozinhando – elas estão cozinhando, mandando SMS, falando ao telefone, assistindo Youtube e fazendo o upload das fotos da refeição maravilhosa que eles acabaram de fazer. O designer Paolo Cardini questiona a eficiência do nosso mundo multitarefa e dá boas razões para – pasmem – "monotarefa". Suas charmosas capas para smartphones impressas em 3D, talvez possam ajudar.
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I'm a designer and an educator.
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Eu sou designer e educador.
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I'm a multitasking person, and I push my students
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Sou uma pessoa multitarefa, e incentivo meus alunos
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to fly through a very creative, multitasking design process.
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a voar através de um muito criativo, multitarefa processo de design.
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But how efficient is, really, this multitasking?
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Mas o quão eficiente é, realmente, esta multitarefa?
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Let's consider for a while the option of monotasking.
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Vamos considerar por um momento a opção monotarefa.
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A couple of examples.
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Alguns exemplos.
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Look at that.
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Olhe pra isto.
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This is my multitasking activity result. (Laughter)
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Este é o meu resultado de uma atividade multitarefa. (Risos)
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So trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS,
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Então tentando cozinhar, atendendo o telefone, escrevendo SMS,
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and maybe uploading some pictures
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e talvez fazendo upload de algumas fotos
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about this awesome barbecue.
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deste churrasco maravilhoso.
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So someone tells us the story about supertaskers,
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Então alguém nos conta uma história sobre pessoas supertarefas,
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so this two percent of people who are able
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então, estes 2% de pessoas que são capazes
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to control multitasking environment.
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de controlar um ambiente multitarefa.
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But what about ourselves, and what about our reality?
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Mas e sobre nós, e sobre nossa realidade?
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When's the last time you really enjoyed
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Quando foi a última vez que você realmente desfrutou
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just the voice of your friend?
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de apenas da voz do seu amigo?
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So this is a project I'm working on,
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Então, este é o projeto no qual eu estou trabalhando,
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and this is a series of front covers
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e esta é uma série de capas protetoras
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to downgrade our super, hyper —
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para reverter nosso super, hiper -
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(Laughter) (Applause)
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(Risos) (Aplausos)
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to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones
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para reverter nosso super, hiper - telefones celulares
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into the essence of their function.
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na essência da sua função.
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Another example: Have you ever been to Venice?
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Outro exemplo: Você já foi a Veneza?
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How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets
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Como é bonito nos perdermos nessas ruas pequenas
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on the island.
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na ilha.
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But our multitasking reality is pretty different,
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Mas nossa realidade multitarefa é bem diferente,
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and full of tons of information.
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e cheias de toneladas de informações.
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So what about something like that
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Então, que tal, algo como isso
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to rediscover our sense of adventure?
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para redescobrir nosso senso de aventura?
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I know that it could sound pretty weird to speak about mono
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Eu sei que poderia soar bem esquisito falar sobre mono
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when the number of possibilities is so huge,
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quando o número de possibilidade é tão imenso,
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but I push you to consider the option of
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mas eu te incentivo a considerar a opção de
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focusing on just one task,
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focar em apenas uma tarefa
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or maybe turning your digital senses totally off.
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ou talvez desligar totalmente seus sentidos digitais.
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So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product.
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Então hoje em dia, todos podem produzir seu mono produto
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Why not? So find your monotask spot
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Por que não? Encontre seu lugar monotarefa
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within the multitasking world.
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dentro de um mundo multitarefa.
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Thank you.
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Obrigado.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Lorena Luna
Reviewed by Nadja Nathan

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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