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Just a quick note to say — I’ll be at this event at V2__ in Rotterdam (V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam) Thursday September 29..so if you’re around, you should come. If you’re not — you should dial-in: ((This event will be streamed … Continue reading
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So — enough yammering. Time for some hammering. It’ll be workshops from here to fore. Getting to work. Shirtsleeves. Lab coats. Smocks. Aprons. Hammers. I’ll be doing a workshop later this summer — August 24 from 2-5:30, to be precise … Continue reading
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Science-fact and science-fiction all in a productive, creative, inspirational muddle. Jurassic Park meets its science meets its facts and its fictions in a favorite Time magazine cover, April 23, 1994. This is really exciting to me. It feels like there … Continue reading
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A Call for Papers for an intriguing sounding workshop expanding upon and evolving the Design Fiction ideas. This full-day workshop aims to explore how grounded ethnographic and action research methods can be transformed into fictional and speculative designs that provide … Continue reading
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At long last David A. Kirby’s book Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema will hopefully actually finally be released this March 2011. For those of you who haven’t followed the Design Fiction citational and bibliographic rabbit hole, you’ll … Continue reading
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Seems Art Center’s Media Design Program has extended its deadline for applicants for a summer residency — learning and pervasive/ubiquitous/thing-y computing. http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/research/summer2011/ === Learning and the New Ecology of Things We are particularly interested in projects that explore learning in … Continue reading
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You’d be right to wonder why there has not been much here for a couple-few weeks. Contrary to a vicious rumor, we neither adopted a needy office pet nor did we father-seed a dead pop star’s child. It’s Annual Planning … Continue reading
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Ambling around Medieval Torino with @bruces during the 2008 Share Festival. The fine folks at Piemonte Share in Torino are doing a creative competition called Action Sharing 2! Here’s the Call for Participation. Deadline is November 30th! Winner can supervise … Continue reading
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I’ll be speaking at the Future of Technology conference at the Taubman College of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design on September 25th — the conference is on the 24th and the 25th. This courtesy of my chum John Marshall, who I … Continue reading
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One week from today I’ll have the pleasure of sharing a panel discussion with my old chum Sascha Pohflepp and the eminent Norman Klien as Art Center rounds out its summer “Made Up” residency studio program. Fun. Come out and … Continue reading
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Coming up is an exciting sounding workshop on the “urban internet of things — programming the real-time city.” Some more opportunities to get this one right..or at least human. ** As more people move to cities, it becomes increasingly challenging )) … Continue reading
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Good lord. What happened just then? Well — I missed a weeknote last week, but I’m not going to do penance. It happens. I’ve been working — mostly in my head, with a swirl of notes — on two casual commissions for … Continue reading