At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my recollection: ”In ‘hard’ sciences, like physics and maths, there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘design’
Fuzziness, Data and Truth
Monday, August 16th, 2010Introducing “God vs. Cleveland”
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Its a book. Or a novel. I’m not really sure. I tell people I’m writing a book, but I guess its a novel. Either way, its a story, and being designed while its written to be a different kind of story. One that goes with you in more ways than one. This I’m still sorting [...]
The Hunt
Friday, June 25th, 2010The Pervasive Monuments project is in full, almost incomprehensible swing, and the swirling mass of ideas, issues and things to consider seems to multiply by the second. We’ve been looking at is the notion of a monument, or rather, a digital or “pervasive” monument as not just a static thing or even a static experience, [...]
Half what?
Sunday, June 20th, 2010One of the best things about having a company with an obscure name that kind of sounds like it could be a band, a comic shop or a skateboard company is the fun stuff that it means in other languages. In Turkish, it’s slang for disabled. In Kinyarwanda, I’m convinced it means something pretty funny [...]
The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side of the Highway
Friday, June 4th, 2010Being a product of the sprawling wasteland that is suburban Cleveland, Ohio, (most recently voted the most miserable place to live in the US by Forbes magazine) I can attest that I am no fan of suburbs. This is because I spent roughly two thirds of my life in a place that required me to [...]
Interview with Rob van Kranenburg on the Internet of Things
Monday, May 24th, 2010I’ve taken the liberty to interview ubiquitous computing and Internet of Things luminary Rob van Kranenburg about some of his thoughts on the Internet of Things. Rob is the brains and the beauty behind Council, the multi-disciplinary bottom-up think tank taking a look at trying to shape the reality of networked everything before its too [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)
Friday, May 14th, 2010Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation was great, a couple of [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 6-7)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Day 6 -7 Everyone was really hammering it down and getting down to work. They started getting down to building the mobile and the stationary joke exchange centre and I was really pleased to see that the students started working on a website to trade jokes, thus completing the system in an unexpected and really [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You To Me” workshop (Day 3-5)
Monday, May 10th, 2010Day 3 – Place #1 Place #1 was where things were supposed to be happening after establishing Home for the groups. Place #1 is somewhere the groups could walk to and they were to meet someone there and initiate some sort of exchange. The groups went out into Maribor and learned quite quickly that guerilla [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” workshop (Day 1-2)
Saturday, May 8th, 2010So they’ve begun. My students, Oleg, Sara, Helena, Nikola and Josip are now taking over the city of Maribor and learning the hard way that places, people and interactions don’t always come together very easily. Here’s what they were dealing with Day 1 – Home There just may be, and if there isn’t there should [...]
