This is an extract and a draft of an article currently in process exploring the technologies, both current and emerging, that are driving the expression and the renewed promise of new communal living situations. Working together with my coauthor, the building technology consultant Tim Lehotsky, we've framed some questions around tech-enabled coliving to better understand … Continue reading New Urban Experiences of Mediated Communities
Generative Design for Human Factors
Can data help designers anticipate human factors over time as buildings learn? Building sensors and data-collecting personal devices are providing designers with a new layer of input on how spaces are used. Harnessing this data to achieve more human centered outcomes depends on developing new metrics of architectural usability; a process that is likely to … Continue reading Generative Design for Human Factors
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
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