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Also Plants Fly is a blog about interfaces in all their different embodiments, such as commercial products, services, architecture, media art. Indeed interfaces, in a broad sense, are everywhere: interfaces are the medium between any two interacting objects, a point of conjunction where interaction happens.

It is not surprising that disciplines like HCI (Human Computer Interaction) emphasizes the concept of interaction rather than interface. Interaction is seen as a higher goal because it concerns human behavior rather than physical properties. Moreover, there is an underlying positivist assumption that humans can engineer interfaces in order to model the underlying interaction.

Also Plants Fly, however, offers you a different perspective, emphasizing interfaces over interaction. As we said, if it is true that interfaces are the media through which interaction happens, then it is also true that interaction is shaped by its interfaces. As an example, interaction also happens in ways that were not predicted or engineered: think of all the usages of technology for which it was not intended for.

Also Plants Fly aims to explore the tension between the intended interactions which we can understand by reverse engineering the interfaces, and the actual usage of every-day's objects and technologies. Observation and ethnography are the methods we use.

Our team is international and composed of three editors (Andrea Bianchi, Noah Shibley and Fabrizo Montanari) and various collaborators.

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