Seeing Sound
This is an original exhibit designed by Karla Calderon, Jenine Durland, Matt Ganucheau, Chika Imagima and Nicholas Rubin for the New York Hall of Science in ITP’s Exhibit Design spring 2010 course.
Ice Bridge
A mobile audio tour & video projection on ice, intended for passengers on the Staten Island Ferry, exploring the winter of 1799 in the midst of the Revolutionary War–the only time on record where soldiers could push cannons from Manhattan to Staten Island.
DoggyCorps Thesis Presentation, the Video (with slides!)
At long last I’ve edited my slides and animation footage into ITP’s video archive so you can watch my thesis presentation in May. It’s nearly 20 minutes, but it’s funny (I promise) and provides a pretty good summary of DoggyCorps’ lifecycle (and a bit of my own) at NYU. Untitled from DoggyCorps on Vimeo.
The Dogs Get a Makeover…
Nothing like a deadline to get things movin’ again. Thanks to the ITP Book, I’ve iterated back through the visual design treatment for DoggyCorps, trying to bring a sense of geography into the presentation, as well as add some color to back up the black on white line drawings. I also came up with a …
The Buttonwood Project
Originally called the the New York Curb Market because its brokers traded outdoors in the street, the New York Stock Exchange traces its origins to 1792, when 24 New York City stockbrokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement. Named the Buttonwood after the tree whose leaves the brokers crowded under in 1792, the tree, otherwise …
NYSE meets NY Green Exchange
I’m drawn to the secrecy that shrouds the financial district in general, and the NY Stock Exchange building in specific. I’m interested in making the buying and selling of stocks, especially those that pertain to the public’s health, transparent. I’m in love with tree houses, community-supported agriculture, and plant-solutions for bio-remediation efforts. I’m frightened by …
Site Specific: Mapping & Walking
On Vito Acconci, Public Space in a Private Time (1990): Of everything Vito writes, I find his observations about public space in an electronic age, written 20 years ago, to be the most interesting lens for looking at today’s public space as a loss of political space. Here are some of my thoughts regarding his …
Project Proposal: Re-envisioning New York City, a pop-up book
For Designing Living Systems, I propose to compile my research on NYC’s natural ecology, current environmental data, and design and bioremediation solutions to produce a handmade pop-up book that offers visual renderings of the past (a la Mannahatta project), present, and, most importantly, the future for selected New York City sites. In this way, each …
A Noxious Night
My roommate woke me up at 3 AM this morning, asking if I could come smell the rest of the apartment, which she said reeked of gas or smoke. Sure enough, one whiff and you knew there was something wrong. Not natural gas or your standard smoke from a fire, but there was a heavy …
The Highline Potluck, pt 2
While most event organizers would veto a rainy Monday for an outdoor event, Melissa, Yoni, and I succeeded in throwing a little shindig at the Highline Park in Chelsea. Originally intended as an intervention to draw attention to the lack of observed community and the high-end visitors to the park, we staged a neighborhood potluck. …