interaction design & urban environments
A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to enhance urban life.
Wayfinding strategy and concept development for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s 20th anniversary installation of fog sculptures by Fujiko Nakaya as part of my…
As much of our daily conversations have moved to online environments, this project brings these conversations back into the public spaces of cities…
The Data Browser project focuses on the development of a software tool for the visual exploration and manipulation of large data sets and real time data streams. Multiple data sets and streams from heterogeneous sources and very different in nature can be connected, processed and visualized…
In collaboration with Singapore’s Land Transport Authority we have developed a number of interactive visual applications to explore the wealth of information concealed in some of the mobility data generated throughout the island…
Cities are awash in data generated in real time in numerous ways but often not accessible to residents seeking to make decisions. The LIVE Singapore! project addresses this through the development of an urban real time data platform capable of collecting, processing, and visualizing…
The AgriPod project valorizes the intrinsic characteristics of locally farmed produce by giving consumers a visible access to the comprehensive information on origin…
Files generated by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow to elaborate landscapes in much the same way as can be done for smaller scale…
New York Talk Exchange (NYTE) explores how a global city such as New York connects with cities around the world by visualizing long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flows in real time. Questions that drive the exploration are: How does the city…
Industrial design of an urban furniture family of about 30 products as part of my tenure with Antonio Citterio and Partners in Milan,…
Technology research and design strategy and concept development of new urban furniture typologies for Viacom during my tenure as designer at TotalTool in…
As part of our Experience Design Studio organized in collaboration with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, students from the Experience Design BA program at…
Over the course of one semester I worked with a group of graduate students on the exploration of designing and developing novel and meaningful ways of representing energy systems data…
My class students, my teaching assistant Corey Hoard and I, recently followed Northeastern University’s Energy Manager Joe Ranahan on a tour through some…
This graduate course was offered at the Northeastern University School of Architecture in Fall 2014-15 and was a pilot for the subsequent course…
As part of our Experience Design Studio organized in collaboration with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, students from the Experience Design BA program at…
Much attention is today focused on ways to valorize data generated by urban systems and infrastructures supported by networked digital technologies. To this…
In the process of working with large systems data, data visualization has become a powerful tool for both the representation of information as…
Watch the video from our panel discussion from earlier this year on Data Visualization. Organized by the Boston Design Museum, I had the…
In a recent conversation at his studio in Newport, Richard Saul Wurman reminded me of the terrific Japanese movie classic Rashômon and pointed…
UNITE on Data Visualization February 19th, 2015, 6:30-8:30pm General Assembly – 51 Melcher Street, Boston, MA 02210 I look forward to moderating…