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Book: The Urban Improvise (Yale University Press)
A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to enhance urban life.
Wayfinding Strategy for the Emerald Necklace
Wayfinding strategy and concept development for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s 20th anniversary installation of fog sculptures by Fujiko Nakaya as part of my…
Spinning Awards
Spinning Awards is an interactive and improvisational visualization that makes 150 years of musical awards won by alumni from the New England Conservatory…
OpenLines
The project OpenLines consists in dynamic lines projected onto the floor of a busy campus atrium. The project is based on the observation…
Workplace + Public Realm
In a yearlong collaboration, Stanford University, Northeastern University and WRNS Studio have investigated the impacts of changes in work and workplace upon the…
Exhibition: Northeastern Energy Flows at Gallery 360
Two interactive visualizations reveal how the bustling activity on Northeastern’s campus is fueled by energy consumed by the buildings on campus and help…
PlaceTalk | Situating hyper-local online conversations
As much of our daily conversations have moved to online environments, this project brings these conversations back into the public spaces of cities…
The Urban Improvise
The ‘the urban improvise’ initiative looks at the rich culture of improvisation as a framework for understanding and developing interactive environments and artifacts…
Data Orchestra | Northeastern Energy Flows
As part of the ‘Northeastern Energy Flows’ research project this interactive data visualization system provides access to fine grain data on energy consumption,…
Improvised action in responsive environments
Together with a group of Viewpoints actors we have started experimentation for our new project that proposes a collaboration across the domains of…
Data Browser
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…
Visual Explorations of Urban Mobility
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…
LIVE Singapore!
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…
AgriPod
The AgriPod project valorizes the intrinsic characteristics of locally farmed produce by giving consumers a visible access to the comprehensive information on origin…
Georeferenced Objects at MAK Vienna
Files generated by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow to elaborate landscapes in much the same way as can be done for smaller scale…
NYTE | New York Talk Exchange
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…
Urban Furniture Series for Wall/JCDecaux
Industrial design of an urban furniture family of about 30 products as part of my tenure with Antonio Citterio and Partners in Milan,…
New Urban Furniture Typologies for Cities of the 21st Century
Technology research and design strategy and concept development of new urban furniture typologies for Viacom during my tenure as designer at TotalTool in…
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Exhibition: Experience Design for Boston’s Emerald Necklace
As part of our Experience Design Studio organized in collaboration with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, students from the Experience Design BA program at…
Workplace + Public Realm
In a yearlong collaboration, Stanford University, Northeastern University and WRNS Studio have investigated the impacts of changes in work and workplace upon the…
Visual Energy Flows
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…
The origin of data – Energy systems at Northeastern
My class students, my teaching assistant Corey Hoard and I, recently followed Northeastern University’s Energy Manager Joe Ranahan on a tour through some…
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Exhibition: Experience Design for Boston’s Emerald Necklace
As part of our Experience Design Studio organized in collaboration with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, students from the Experience Design BA program at…
From lamp-hours to smart meters
Much attention is today focused on ways to valorize data generated by urban systems and infrastructures supported by networked digital technologies. To this…
Mediation theory and the design with urban systems data
In the process of working with large systems data, data visualization has become a powerful tool for both the representation of information as…
Video: Boston Design Museum Data Visualization Panel
Watch the video from our panel discussion from earlier this year on Data Visualization. Organized by the Boston Design Museum, I had the…
Rashômon and the wicked problem of viewpoints
In a recent conversation at his studio in Newport, Richard Saul Wurman reminded me of the terrific Japanese movie classic Rashômon and pointed…
Panel Discussion on Data Visualization
UNITE on Data Visualization February 19th, 2015, 6:30-8:30pm General Assembly – 51 Melcher Street, Boston, MA 02210 I look forward to moderating…