Lasting changes of perspectives, known as cognitive shifts, are rare and valuable events presenting those who experience them with new perceptive capabilities. Through certain physical movements involving elevation, orientation or route changes, minds can be dramatically reorganized around new performed understandings. Photos and diagrams from my fieldwork in Budapest While getting my master's degree I … Continue reading Cognitive Reorientation Through Movement
Everything You See Is Slowly Moving
Ah, the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.Rilke Our domestic lives are full of details that change constantly and signal the passage of time. Persistent change occurs on all levels: we change our buildings, transform rooms and spaces. The furniture comes and goes quickly, our bodies barely register. How might … Continue reading Everything You See Is Slowly Moving
Book: The Best Interface is No Interface
Krishna, G. (2015). The best interface is no interface: The simple path to brilliant technology. What good is all our computational power if our best minds are consumed building more "lazy rectangles" for screens? Through the GUI, problem solving and tool making have all been channeled into flatland. Golden Krishna calls out the absurdity of our … Continue reading Book: The Best Interface is No Interface
Access and Tactics for the City
A lot of people in cities are lost, and I mean this literally. According to Mike Rawlinson, of City ID, at any one moment in New York City, “quite a high proportion of people are lost” (Guardian article). This problem isn't just about tourists and smartphone mapping hasn't provided a solution. Guerrilla wayfinding tactics, although … Continue reading Access and Tactics for the City
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