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Monthly Archives: December 2010

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By | Published: December 19, 2010
photo credit: Aaron Cansler

What is this buzzword, Collaboration? There are so many different ways in which we can define, describe, strategize, theorize, and analyze it. Natalie Jeremijenko once…

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It’s a wonderful life

By | Published: December 19, 2010

A box full of string, a 40’s classic and a raging faux fire set this scene. Welcome to one of the many contributions to our…

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Martha’s Guide to Morality

By | Published: December 19, 2010

A few weeks ago I was able to tag along with some friends to a taping of the Martha Stewart Show. We dressed as Martha…

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Information Visualization: some questions

By | Published: December 19, 2010

As modes of externalized memory, information visualizations and photography have a few seminaries. Both hope to capture and communicate a representation of something—between people or…

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Le Cose Belle Sono Lente

By | Published: December 18, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLMA73XhLY It seems to me that the quickness installed by the Industrial Revolution, and later leveraged by technology and new media, has gotten under our…

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You Are Not Alone

By | Published: December 18, 2010

Shortly after getting a divorce, Bernd Klosterfelde felt alone and overwhelmed by the absence of sounds in his home. This could have been just another…

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Let Numbers Speak

By | Published: December 18, 2010

Once I found myself asking a leading financial expert (who used to run a private equity fund): What was his trick; how could he make sense and see things just by looking at a financial statement or the stock exchange report? His answer was simple and poetic: “Let the numbers speak to you.”

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Natural Capitalism, Anyone?

By | Published: December 18, 2010
Money growing on a tree.

In seminar recently, we’ve been discussing the book Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins. It’s an excellent book, which – even…

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We/Me/You

By | Published: December 16, 2010

When someone designs a building that is cheaper to build, easier and less expensive to maintain, enjoyed by all who inhabit it, and is better…

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Design & Disposition

By | Published: December 15, 2010

Design is reactive. A designer perceives a societal disconnect and seeks to objectify it.  By navigating through the design process a solution is synthesized.  An…

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