Words 
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 [...]
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August 16th, 2010Skateboarding IS the City
July 24th, 2010I write a lot about skateboarding mainly because I think a lot about skateboarding. That and a lot of my life, probably most of my life, has involved skateboarding in some way shape of form. Skateboarding in relation to what I do now for a living couldn’t relate more actually. I’m serious, especially if you [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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June 11th, 2010There are many things I never knew about Rwanda and could have guessed and many others that I could never in a million years guess. One of them is that I’ve had some of the best pizza I’ve ever had there. While it sounds incredibly trite, especially considering the extremely heavy and sensitive nature of [...]
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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 [...]
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May 28th, 2010View Larger Map So tomorrow is a ludicrously early start to Kigali, Rwanda via Brussels for research work for the Pervasive Monuments project. What started as Spomenik, now has taken on a paralell project looking at public memorialisation and technology in education in post-genocide Rwanda. On top of having been vaccinated for everything from Yellow [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Interview with Rob van Kranenburg on the Internet of Things
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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)
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 [...]
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