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…
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…
Real time feedback on the impact of our actions: the instant MPG readout
I recently spent some time with my in-laws and drove their car for a few days. I was struck by the effectiveness of…