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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticleThe 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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