So in a couple of short hours, or probably less, last week I’ve managed to get my work that I’m doing for the Spomenik project on no less than ten Slovenian news outlets, thanks in large part to the brave and media-savvy work of our partners at the Study Centre for National Reconciliation. I’ve never [...]
Posts Tagged ‘place’
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011Phone calls and Big Promises
Friday, February 25th, 2011“So what are you up to today?” asks curious fellow designer person. “Oh, you know, a little genocide in the morning, a lot of emailing people that probably don’t care, and then I have to do expenses,” I respond. The curious fellow designer person usually responds with an uneasy silence and a quick change of [...]
Getting all Procedural on the City – Interview with CityEngine’s Pascal Mueller
Monday, December 6th, 2010I had the good fortune (and Alpine connections probably) to get to talk to Pascal Mueller the founder and brains behind Procedural who make one of the crazier bits of design software I’ve gotten my hands on CityEngine which you can use to design cities from the street and block up. J: So why cities? P: [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
