Chronophone is a new telephone service that allows people to call themselves - one year from now.

When you call the Chronophone it automatically picks up and records whatever you say or do. Exactly one year later the Chronophone calls you back and replays the recording.

What would you tell your future self?

The Chronophone service is currently tested at the Pixelache festival in Helsinki. Get your Chrono-credits at the Pixelache info-desk! €1 = 1 call = 1 minute.

Chronophone is an Unsworn Telecom initiative.

Unsworn Telecom is kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point.

Unsworn Industries sent a massive delegation to Alnarp the other day. We lectured, workshopped and exhibited at the annual Movium conference, this year themed “Life in the City”. Some 200 people who work with “everything between the buildings” - from landscape architects to cemetary caretakers - attended.

Prototyping the city

Following prominent speaker like Martha Schwartz Erik and Magnus sharpened their powerpoint to the max and delivered a snappy presentation on prototype-oriented city development. The key message: by making potential futures more visible, audible, and tangible they are possible to discuss and evaluate, also for non-professionals. If we are seriously working towards a citizen-dialogue within city-planning we need new “prototyping” formats. The Parascope and its sibling projects is one experiment in searching for such formats.

Post-lunch panoramas

After a hearty lunch all participants were invited by Elisabet, Terje and Magnus to remain seated and get their hands dirty with pens, post-its and panoramas. The brief: turn the space outside the conference venue, “Bobos plats”, into a better meeting place. In one hour. The resulting panoramas were uploaded into a Parascope on-site for swift comparison. Thanks everyone for eagerly joining in!

Stainless steel showcases

Besides two Parascopes, we exhibited a fully functioning Megaphonebooth. Back from duty in Helsinki last summer the Megaphonebooth presents unexpected action spaces and new public communcation modes. It also proved a invaluable tool for the moderator to announce the upcoming lectures to espresso-busy, mingling conference-goers.

Malmö´s Western Harbour area sports a number of state-of-the-art, sustainable solutions for its energy, waste and water systems. These systems are mostly invisible to the untrained eye. Visual storyteller Arlene Birt created a “Behind the scenes” panorama for a Parascope during her residency at Medea.

“Wow, I’ve lived here for three years and I still didn’t have a clue how it all works”, exclaimed one of the locals.

Magnus calibrates the Parascope for perfect alignment with the Turning Torso.