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Cindy Chastain: Thinking like a Storyteller

A long video, but a good preliminary introduction to how storytelling and interactive design can work together. If we, as designers, had a better understanding of how stories are crafted, we would...

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Visual Resource: Luke Dubois

A More Perfect Union is a large-scale artwork based online dating and the United States Census. In the artist’s words, “In progress since 2008, the work attempts to create an alternative census, based...

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Visual Resource: James Coupe

Fascinated by these recontextualized narratives in James Coupe’s Surveillance Suite. Surveillance Suite is a series of video installations that use a network of video cameras running computer vision...

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The Public Private

I went to the Public Private exhibit at Parsons on Sunday to review it for my Design Writing course; came across Coupe and DuBois while doing a little preliminary research on the exhibit. It features...

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Visual Resource: Reboot Stories

Lance Weiler first popped up in my GOOD RSS feed talking about “purposeful storytelling.” From there I learned about his “Building Storyworlds” course at Columbia, and today I stumbled upon Reboot...

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How the Other Half Writes

In my Design Writing class this week, we read Geoff Manaugh’s How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter (2009). Something that came up that I think might be relevant in terms of considering how...

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Visual Resource: Aaron Koblin

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity...

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The Role of Participation in Storytelling Environments

In prepping for our first real presentation in Thesis Research class the week before Spring Break, I stepped back to re-examine everything I’ve been reading, highlighting, brainstorming about for...

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Visual Resource: Janet Zweig

Janet Zweig came to speak to us last semester, and she’s a great resource for art and storytelling in public spaces. The Lipstick Enigma project for the Harris Engineering Center in Florida is my...

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The role of the designer

Last week I reread Khoi Vinh’s Conversations with the Network. He talks about how digital media has affected the role of the designer and says that designers are now not just transmitting messages but...

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