Play, writing, and the pleasures of complex dynamic systems
Writer and game designer Andrea Phillips, who I interviewed in this space a few years back, recently wrote a…
Metropolis II
Chris Burden’s Metropolis II opens this week at LACMA. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.” And also, I would add, the thrill and the wonder…
Emergent by Design
Venessa Miemis: “My passion has been in watching what is happening at the intersection of technology,…
The Critical Need for Self-Care When World Building
Posted 21 February 2012 | 12:50 pm
How do We form Tribes of Greatness?
Posted 17 February 2012 | 4:51 pm
The Covenant-Formed Base Community: Personal Liberty, Corporate Power, and Cocreativity
Posted 17 February 2012 | 3:01 pm
F-Suites for C-Suites: 4 Futures Thinking Toolkits To Help C-Suite Leaders Thrive in a World of Change
Posted 13 February 2012 | 5:29 pm
Bootstrapping Humanity’s Next OS
Posted 9 February 2012 | 8:58 pm
An essential archipelago of opportunity
Nicholas de Monchaux’s WPA 2.0 entry, Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial data to map the thousands of abandoned city-owned lots scattered across North American cities. But this is more than just a data viz project: de Monchaux conceives of these spaces as “an essential archipelago of opportunity” for making cities more livable, functional, and sustainable.
Nicholas Demonchaux
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urbanist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban…
Groundwork
Posted 25 October 2011 | 11:27 pm
Thrilling Wonder Stories 3
Posted 25 October 2011 | 11:25 pm
Vanalen Books
Posted 25 October 2011 | 11:24 pm
MICD
Posted 9 September 2011 | 10:20 pm
Studio One
Posted 9 September 2011 | 10:17 pm
Mogees: Realtime Gesture Recognition with Contact Microphones
Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees project — “an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime…
Thachr
Sara Thacher: “I’m . . . a transmedia producer and experience designer. I make adventures that…
Hiss Pop is Here!
Posted 21 February 2012 | 7:03 pm
Monochrome Room
Posted 10 February 2012 | 7:08 pm
Playing in the Museum
Posted 7 February 2012 | 7:12 pm
Internet Archive Drives
Posted 27 January 2012 | 4:56 am
I’m Mad as Hell and I’m not Going to Take It Anymore
Posted 12 January 2012 | 9:00 am