This is another one of my system maps. This one is about constructivism a really interesting education model. This really is how i think and frame information. I always relate concepts to each other.
Communication strategy and web design for IDEA a Russian Language and art school that uses games as a teaching tool.
Spring 2011 – work in progress
PassivPaad was a collaborative project with George Gladstone. The project centered around a Life Cycle Analysis of a typical 15 story apartment building in NYC and then a comparison when that same building was retrofitted as a highly insulated pod style living, with insulation at Passiv Haus standards. The Life Cycle Analysis was done using SustainableMinds an online LCA program.
Spring 2010
These were analytical maps showing the current organizational process for Partnership for Parks in 2009 and also a proposed working process. The final project ended up being the The sharades and mapping class developed for their academy.
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The goal of this game is to see if i can make a brighter day. I went out with a really ugly self portrait that i had done of myself. I then showed it to people and asked if they thought that it looked like me. The goal was to make people smile, because it was really hideous. I then tallied these results, and determined if i made more people smile than frown.
Spring 2009
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This is a bad video i made about a project i did back in freshmen year with my friend Young Soo Kim.
Fall 2006
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This was a class that i designed for Partnerships for Parks Academy, that was meant to teach Park Groups how to discover problems in their parks and work out solutions collaboratively through mapping and sharades.
Spring 2009
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This was an urban intervention exploring the ramifications that twitter has on conversation by imagining what it would be if it was an analog conversation, not a digital one.
The premise. “Open for Conversation – a public debate in 30 words”
Fall 2009
what is the 00, its not not, the not not.
Essentially the not not or infinity, is nothing that is everything. It is 0(a-z)0 . It is a nothing that contains within it everything.
It is a container, it is a house.
But it is also the circle with no beginning middle or end.
It is something with the potential for everything. It is the blank page, the empty canvas. But it is also the crumpled page, that went from nothing to something and then back to nothing. Containing within its lines and contours and shadows, everything ever imagined and everything that will be imagined. That is the not not, the 00.
Spring 2010
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What is a city, How can we understand it? How do we experience it?
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K is for Kitsch, the Commercialization of our world, of the city that we live in, at most it is a poor imitation.
K is also the kunst kamera, the collection of oddities and curiosities, containing the uselessness of our minds, our hopes and our ideals. It holds everything that we discarded, everything we hid in the deepest darkest corners of our minds.
Taking the form of a fleamarket table, K sells you the poor imitation of my hopes and dreams
Initially the concept of the house was an object that protects us from external forces, allowing us to believe that we were separated from them, the home was the haven, it was the separate sphere where we could live in the illusion of safety and autonomy.
Heidegger once said that the house is the most primitive form of a line that creates an inside opposed to an outside.
(In Mark Wigleys “Architecture of Deconstruction”)
This is F for find force fiction and foto
Crafting together a fictional narrative referencing the ways in which photography is used to speak about the natural environment around us to tell its own narrative, F is overlaid over our eyes, creating an augmented reality by making an illusional line that separates us from the actual world around us. Offering us the same illusion of separation and autonomy as the house does.
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You never really know the city without time. It always looks so pretty, as if through glass, shining, sparkling.
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what is urban beauty?
urban beauty is maneuvering through the sea of encounters and experiences. Just like the ocean there are waves and tides, that cover and reveal, they envelop and encase, they break and sever, they hide. Walking through the city the things and people that we encounter are the same, they are unpredictable, and they are fleeting, able to flow another way with the wind, relations spill from one into another and they mix together creating a whirlpool. This is urban beauty, it is about hidden meanings and messages. The boat is a bottle, it contains a message, but the vessel disintegrates leaving the message bare, to be enveloped. It melts, feeding the massive sea, giving it food, sustenance and definition, becoming a new message.
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What would the zeitgeist be as spatial form representative of city?
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What is the city? What is apple as metaphor for the city? what is aedicule as metaphor for the city? How can this be explored?
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There is arguably much in the city that is poetic. But what is the Poetic city? What is urban Poetry? The poem resounding through every city is the proof that it is alive. It is heard in the song the skyscraper sings to the sky, the serenade the trees give to the sidewalk, it is the force of the building standing on the street. The poem is visible every time you open a door, every time a dog runs up a staircase, every time a tourist looks starry eyed at the sky. It is the sound of the touch, the interaction and relation as people crash into one another, or as the buildings flow into the sidewalk which flows into the street, it is the tree that sits in street. Life is in the poem of the touch.
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This is my latest personal work in the Urban Intervention vein.
It is a project that aims to make strangers a little happier by passing out cards with compliments that beg to be passed on. …. SMILE!