Book: The Urban Improvise (Yale University Press)
Online for pre-order now and coming out soon. A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
