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Monthly Archives: November 2013

Mind the Gap

By | Published: November 15, 2013

I boarded the 1 train to make my way from 14th street all the way to 191st street, as I do every day on my…

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Fluffy Mane and All

By | Published: November 15, 2013

   Globalization is a funny thing. The last three years that I spent in Peace Corps Lesotho highlighted globalization’s ability to seemingly increase random series…

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Internet Communities & The Rainbow Family

By | Published: November 15, 2013

  I first heard about the Rainbow Family from a friend who runs in the anarchist-hippie crowd, and took it with a large grain of…

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+5 Renegade Points: Designing Violence in Video Games

By | Published: November 15, 2013

I’ve bludgeoned a few hookers in my day. I’ve been romantically involved with a 106 year old hermaphrodite, stabbed a Pope, poisoned government officials, run…

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Graduate School in the Age of Google Drive: The Effects of Open Source and Cloud Computing on our Projects

By | Published: November 14, 2013

  If you’ve taken classes at a university during the last few years, you can probably picture this familiar scene: It’s midnight the night before…

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Being creative in a creative economy (Is the music industry dying?)

By | Published: November 14, 2013

I was very provoked by an article written by David Byrne from the Talking Heads in the Guardian about a month ago entitled “The internet…

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What the Hell is Critical Design?

By | Published: November 14, 2013

During the recitation half of my Design for This Century course, I discussed the difference between critical design and critical art with my classmates. Not…

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shift of perception about design

By | Published: November 5, 2013

  John Thackara raises question in his book, In the bubble, “Should we continue to design only to make things faster?” It seems to me that design and…

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Roti, Kapra & Design – the wicked problem of political slogans

By | Published: November 4, 2013

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a thundering politician. A former prime minister of Pakistan, he led a fractured country through the troubled 70s on the popular,…

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TransSabbath

By | Published: November 4, 2013

Now, I know what you are thinking and it is likely you are rolling your eyes at this crazy fanatic Sabbath observer as you read…

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