Lots of travel. Lots of projects. Lots of papers and writing. Lots of arguing with the structure of my dissertation. Lots of airplanes. Lots of mud and melting snow in Princeton, where I sit at my desk right now. It’s the quiet before the storm — I’ll post about what’s coming up in my next… Continue reading Oh the places you’ll see
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Beatriz Colomina, me, Janet Vertesi at the Princeton School of Architecture. It’s been a wonderful month in Princeton and it’s about to heat up into a whole bunch of travel. I write this from Newark Airport, where I’m in the President’s Club on a friend’s membership, feeling sad to leave autumn on the East Coast… Continue reading weeknote 20
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What comes next? It’s been a big question for me lately. I’m in the fourth year of five funded years of my PhD and in my sixth year of graduate school. Do I want to stay in academia? Do I want to do corporate R&D? Consulting? Thinktank? Start a company? My background is different than that… Continue reading weeknote 19
Speaking at the Princeton Media + Modernity lecture series
Very excited about this. I’m speaking in the Media + Modernity lecture series at Princeton on Thursday, October 14th along with my dear friend Janet Vertesi. I’ll be talking about Cedric Price and she’ll be talking about her dissertation research on images and the Mars Rover. If you’re interested, if you’re on campus or around… Continue reading Speaking at the Princeton Media + Modernity lecture series
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I’ve been back in Princeton for just over a week and the heavy air of late hurricane season finally gave way to crisp autumn evenings. It’s my favorite season and it smells wonderful outside — a mix of Lake Carnegie and trees, a chorus of lazy crickets as the soundtrack. Coming back gave me an… Continue reading weeknote 18
You really wish you could attend these conferences
You so wish you could attend these two conferences. But you won’t be invited. You’re more than 34 years too late. There’s “The Invisible City,” the theme of the 1972 International Design Conference Aspen. It promised to “address the implications of making the invisible city visible: of changing misuse into use and apathy into engagement.… Continue reading You really wish you could attend these conferences
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It’s hard to top a week like the one I described in weeknote 16. The last week was about starting the school year at Art Center, on one hand, and tying up loose ends in LA to start the school year in Princeton. The highlight of the week: hearing Tom McCarthy read from his novel… Continue reading weeknote 17
Google Zeitgeist: A Series of Tubes
Last week, I attended Google Zeitgeist and gave the “Series of Tubes” Ignite talk about the history of pneumatic tubes. The event was mindbogglingly stellar. You’ve probably seen some version of this by now, but here’s the latest. (On the Zeitgeist Minds site, they list Desmond Tutu’s talk from a previous year as a related… Continue reading Google Zeitgeist: A Series of Tubes
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What. A. Week. I’ve packed five weeks into the last five days. My head is reeling and I’m exhausted, but what an amazing week. This week has involved LA, San Francisco and Scottsdale, the pneumatic tubes Ignite talk, a 30 person meeting with an organization I’m working with through Institute for the Future, and the… Continue reading weeknote 16
Speaking Thursday, 9/16 (tomorrow) on architecture & information
My good friends at Adaptive Path are hosting a talk I’m giving tomorrow night on my research — on the history of architectures of information. Do come! I’m very excited to be sharing what I’ve been finding. Most of it hasn’t been published or presented anywhere since the mid 60s. Here’s the gist of my… Continue reading Speaking Thursday, 9/16 (tomorrow) on architecture & information