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Bloom - Media Lab Identity assignment

warren — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:13:30 +0000

Here's my proposal for the ML branding assignment:

http://glop.media.mit.edu/bloom

I'll upload the PDF soon too, but it was on my machine that crashed.

--done, keynote file

Puppet masters

warren — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:25:41 +0000

A proposal for the E14 facade performance.

Media Flow

warren — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:50:17 +0000

Keynote: Media Flow.

Wayshowing proposal: Message Trails

warren — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:53:43 +0000

http://eco.media.mit.edu/spatial-uploads/jeff-wayshowing-proposal.mov (80+mb) Click to advance slides.

http://eco.media.mit.edu/spatial-uploads/jeff-wayshowing-proposal.pdf (pdf, no movies)

Readings for Thursday Feb 19th class discussion

warren — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:50:57 +0000

[revised by agnes]
Hi all,

There are three readings for class discussion tomorrow, all posted in the syllabus. It might seem like a lot, but they are all pretty easy reads so you can read quickly and catch what interests you.

1. Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values in Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan
: 20 pages, with a few diagrams, but should be a relatively fast read. He discusses how spatial divisions and values originate from the human body, and how space and experience of spaciousness affects how we perceive more abstract things like competence or freedom.

2. Selections from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander

Personal/Temporal/Agent-based messaging in space

warren — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:08:40 +0000

I began by trying to design an interface which started like Google Maps, but similarly to the Nolli map of Rome, it 'zoomed in' to show all public spaces, even interior ones. Then, on a per-person basis, it could show even private spaces, down to the scale of a single office, desk, or even computer desktop. The interface would have an awareness of what kind of device it was being viewed on - a public kiosk, or a private smartphone, and would show information accordingly.

I then thought of using a public bulletin board more effectively by time multiplexing it so that messages could be targeted at specific groups of people, or related in real time to events. Messages might be conditional on certain data; an author might specify that it should only show if a group of people is there, or only if a single person is there.

Model of E14 for class assignment

warren — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:42:45 +0000

Click here to download the .3ds file. We will try to post this in a few other formats as well.

Good/Bad Spatial Information Design: Jeff Warren

warren — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:23:11 +0000

I found three examples of good spatial information design: the Panopticon (Benthams and more specifically Presidio Modelo in Cuba ), robotic warehouses, and PARKINFORMATION, the parking proposal by Natalie Jeremijenko. For poor spatial information design I chose The World, a collection of islands off the coast of Dubai, which I will compare with the Million Dollar Homepage.

PDF here »