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

Paolo Cardini: Renunțați la multitasking, încercați monotasking

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Oamenii nu mai gătesc, pur și simplu -- ci gătesc, scriu mesaje, vorbesc la telefon, se uită pe YouTube și încarcă pozele abia făcute cu masa copioasă. Designerul Paolo Cardini pune sub semn de întrebare eficiența lumii noastre multitasking și pledează pentru monotasking. Fermecătoarele sale huse de smartphone făcute cu imprimante 3D ar putea să ne ajută să ținem minte.
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I'm a designerproiectant and an educatoreducator.
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Sunt designer și educator.
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I'm a multitaskingmultitasking personpersoană, and I pushApăsaţi my studentselevi
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Fac multe lucruri deodată și îmi forțez studenții
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to flya zbura throughprin a very creativecreator, multitaskingmultitasking designproiecta processproces.
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să alerge printr-un proces creativ multitasking.
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But how efficienteficient is, really, this multitaskingmultitasking?
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Dar cât e de eficient, în realitate, acest multitasking?
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Let's considerconsidera for a while the optionopțiune of monotaskingmonotasking.
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Să considerăm pentru moment opțiunea monotasking.
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A couplecuplu of examplesexemple.
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Două exemple.
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Look at that.
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Priviți.
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This is my multitaskingmultitasking activityactivitate resultrezultat. (LaughterRâs)
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Acesta-i rezultatul activității mele multitasking.
(Râsete)
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So tryingîncercat to cookbucătar, answeringrăspuns the phonetelefon, writingscris SMSSMS-URI,
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Încercam să gătesc, să răspund la telefon, să scriu un SMS
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and maybe uploadingîncărcarea some picturespoze
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și poate să încarc poze
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about this awesomeminunat barbecuegratar.
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despre acest grozav gril.
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So someonecineva tellsspune us the storypoveste about supertaskerssupertaskers,
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Cineva ne spune că există supertaskers,
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so this two percentla sută of people who are ablecapabil
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2% din oameni pot
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to controlControl multitaskingmultitasking environmentmediu inconjurator.
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controla un mediu multitasking.
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But what about ourselvesnoi insine, and what about our realityrealitate?
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Dar noi? Care-i realitatea noastră?
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When'sAtunci când pe the last time you really enjoyedsa bucurat
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Când e ultima oară când te-ai bucurat
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just the voicevoce of your friendprieten?
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să asculți doar vocea prietenului tău?
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So this is a projectproiect I'm workinglucru on,
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Acesta-i un proiect la care lucrez,
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and this is a seriesserie of frontfață coverscapace
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o serie de huse 3D
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to downgradedowngrade our supersuper, hyperhiper
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care să simplifice super, hyper --
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(LaughterRâs) (ApplauseAplauze)
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(Râsete) (Aplauze)
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to downgradedowngrade our supersuper, hyper-mobilehiper-mobil phonestelefoane
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să reducă mobilele noastre super-hyper
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into the essenceesență of theiral lor functionfuncţie.
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la funcția lor esențială.
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AnotherUn alt exampleexemplu: Have you ever been to VeniceVeneţia?
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Alt exemplu: Ați fost vreodată la Veneția?
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How beautifulfrumoasa it is to losepierde ourselvesnoi insine in these little streetsstrăzi
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Ce minunat e să ne pierdem pe străzile înguste
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on the islandinsulă.
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de pe insulă.
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But our multitaskingmultitasking realityrealitate is prettyfrumos differentdiferit,
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Dar realitatea noastră multitasking e diferită
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and fulldeplin of tonstone of informationinformație.
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și încărcată cu tone de informație.
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So what about something like that
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Ce-ați zice de o husă ca asta
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to rediscoverredescoperi our sensesens of adventureaventură?
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ca să redescoperim gustul aventurii?
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I know that it could soundsunet prettyfrumos weirdciudat to speakvorbi about monomono
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Știu că pare ciudat să vorbesc despre mono
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when the numbernumăr of possibilitiesposibilităţi is so hugeimens,
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când numărul de posibilități e imens
(1 milion de aplicații disponibile).
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but I pushApăsaţi you to considerconsidera the optionopțiune of
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Dar vă provoc să considerați opțiunea
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focusingfocalizare on just one tasksarcină,
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concentrării pe o singură activitate,
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or maybe turningcotitură your digitaldigital sensessimțurile totallyintru totul off.
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deconectându-vă de toate conexiunile digitale.
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So nowadaysin zilele de azi, everyonetoata lumea could producelegume şi fructe his monomono productprodus.
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În ziua de azi, oricine își poate produce un produs mono.
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Why not? So find your monotaskmonotask spotloc
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De ce nu? Găsiți-vă activitatea monotasking
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withinîn the multitaskingmultitasking worldlume.
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în mijlocul lumii multitasking.
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Thank you.
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Mulțumesc!
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(Aplauze)
Translated by Ariana Bleau Lugo
Reviewed by Alin Andrei

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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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