I just started using prezi, and something just occurred to me… As you fly across various words and phrases and layout architectures of prezi, it’s not just the frames, words, or objects that you zoom into that count. It’s the spaces in between and the stuff that’s gets passed over that structures meaning. In the [...]

(Image by Michael Annetta) The year 2060. The humans who survived peak-oil all live in giant honeycomb-like structures that contain self-sustaining mini-ecologies within each geodesic cell. Movement is tightly regulated, but residences are efficiently distributed such that all experiences of landscape are consistent. There is no open space nor closed space; there is only space. Each individual [...]

This project was definitely the most challenging experience of the class so far. I learned a lot from the design process — moving from a fairly vague idea about architecture that responds to temperature and proximity to a more specific articulation of space. While the decision to make a scale model was limiting in some ways, [...]

I’m interested in the ways that various partitions of physical space (walls, doors, windows, etc.) have their own unique affordances and shape the flows of bodies, air, and light. For this assignment, I’ll be focusing on the way that flows of air temperature and body movement can be shaped by these architectural partitions. I’d like to [...]

heisenberg eyes: custom eyelid switch from Joshua McVeigh-Schultz on Vimeo. After a lot of trial and error I was finally able to get the Heisenberg Eyes design to work. I used foam sheets to model the eyelid prostheses, and soldered very light gauge wire to tin foil and then hot glue gunned the whole thing together. Soldering on tin [...]

I’m interested in interactive systems that get completed by leaps of imagination or by social mediation. One example that I talked about recently is the elevator close-door button . This is a device that is often non-functional yet nevertheless encourages us to assign causality even where there is none. Alternatively, we can think about the non-functional elevator [...]

Voting has become interwoven with entertainment in popular culture, and I’m interested, in particular, in the ways that the phone has been utilized as a plebiscitary tool ( a la American Idol or other sorts of reality television shows). These shows usually rely on text messaging to aggregate votes. I think there’s something more intimate about [...]

Part I Rather than take on the entire design of the elevator, I have decided to focus my input/output investigation solely on the elevator’s close-door button. This button is notorious for not working. And apparently since the early 90s they’ve been deliberately designed not to work. I’m fascinated by this phenomenon, and so [...]