Cabo San Lucas, Bahia California Family vacation this week. Some of the concrete building reminds me of southern Europe – the rebar sticking up ready for the second storey when the owners have enough money. But what of the small neighborhood stores here that are the same as those I knew so well in Greece?…
design matters
making things makes people
Barry (Katz) is presenting the first lecture in his Design History class for the mechanical engineers (ME110). We are having a running conversation (some two years old now) about design – completely agreeing that things make people as he puts it here this morning. The more subtle point holds too – that this dissolves the…
metamedia utopias
Maybe a positive side of all the proposals for funding we have to write is the dreams and utopias they embody. Here is a current proposal from Joe Adler and myself. What if one could learn about a work of art on-line as if tackling a mystery in a game?What if each solution creates a…
elements of design – digital media
Sam and I have been working again on the eigenvectors paper – trying to get an analytical hold on the design principles that operate on (digital) media and mediation. see my comments on digital humanities last year Archaeology – looking at the design of things, in time, history, in relation to materiality. Made some breakthroughs…
types of object
Barry Katz and I started a new course this quarter for Stanford Continuing Studies. Design – ten things: ten conversations sixteen kinds of object – just some thoughts made – comforting – evocative – signifying alienated – original – useful – everyday iconic – itself – mine – subversive mute – found (accidentally or deliberately)…
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