I’m interested in interactive systems that get completed by leaps of imagination or by social mediation. One example I’ve pointed to is the elevator close-door button. This is a device that is often non-functional yet nevertheless encourages us to assign causality even where there is none. Building on this the idea, I created a responsive… Read more »
February 7, 2012
This project explores what happens to on-the-street interviews when they are driven by live online audiences. Drawing on McLuhan’s imagery of electronic media as prosthetic extensions, I designed a platform that lets online audiences conduct collaborative “on the street” interviews without actually being “on the street.” A hybrid mobile and browser-based interface enabled live audiences to speak through an intermediary wielding a camera and a phone…. Read more »
I’m sitting here testing out Facebook’s new timeline feature, and a couple things jump out at me: 1. For a platform that has, for years now, supported a sense of ephemerality through Newsfeed, they are now in the process of rebranding themselves as a personal narrative platform (think 21st century version of the family album or scrapbook)… Read more »
September 24, 2011[vimeo 20234305] Here is my recent talk at the DIY Citizenship conference.
February 21, 2011I’m really interested in this notion of “hacking contexts.” This seems aligned with what I’ve been thinking about as ‘ritual design’ (in contrast to platform design). It feels like an area that’s calling out for a more clearly defined methodological tool kit, so I’m excited by Grenzfurthner’s explanation of his approach. And I love his… Read more »
February 5, 2011
Elephant in the Relationship was designed in collaboration with Andy Uehara, Michael Annetta, and Casey China. Exhibited at Game Show NYC. Elephant in the Relationship is a game for 2 to 4 players in which players try to communicate deeply troubling relationship issues. Players take on the roles of two people in a personal relationship… Read more »
[youtube LeaAHv4UTI8] Here’s the talk I mentioned in my last post. I couldn’t find Wesch’s talk from OVC online yet, but this seems to be the same material at TEDx.
November 21, 2010Lindsay Grant recently posted a provocative argument about the purpose of redesign over at the HASTAC blog. In work for the Beyond Current Horizons project, Gunther Kress argues that contemporary conditions call not so much for taking a critical stance towards media, but an approach of re-design. Rather than analysing and deconstructing media artefacts, re-design… Read more »
This semester I’m excited to be taking Henry Jenkins’s new Civic Media course at USC. As one of our first assignment, we’re reading a few of the recent white papers that focus on new directions in civic media. These included: The Center for Social Media’s Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, The Knight Commission’s, Informing Communities:… Read more »
September 1, 2010Just saw this nice summary of the event over at HASTAC. The Mobile Design Boost is a hosting a 4-day entrepreneurial design workshop. Looks like its part of a partnership between Startl and IDEO. Nancy Kimberly explains.
July 27, 2010