Projects, research & texts on art, design, activism, architecture and the built environment, urbanism, landscape, critical spatial practices, memory and meaning, network culture, social media and the public sphere.
Dilemma
Posted on January 8th, 2010 in musings
Dilemmas—bona fide dilemmas—are tough. They present difficult decisions with less than ideal alternative choices to be made. Thinking about a potential dilemma in the making earlier today, I went back to a text I had written a few years ago for a Think Tank project that addressed another perceived dilemma. “The Insurmountable Dilemma of a Rooted Practice” was written and then read as part of a performance that I did with four other Directors at Artivistic in Montreal in October 2007. Continue Reading »
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I live and work in Philadelphia, USA where I am an Assistant Professor in Multimedia in the College of Media and Communication at the University of the Arts. I am the Director of the Department for the Investigation of Meaning in The Think Tank that has yet to be named and a strategic designer with The Action Mill.
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Through the end of 2010, I will be working with Bassam El Baroni of Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum as 1 of 3 curatorial teams curating Manifesta 8, the European biennial of contemporary art.
Join me at UArts and DesignPhildelphia on Thursday, October 15, 5-7pm as I moderate a panel discusion exploring the relationship between design education and the non-profit sector.
Projects & Research
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Social Media for Social Change
A design research project that reimagines civil discourse in the context of social media and networked communication.
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Place In Place Of: Alexandria
Site-specific interventions, performances, lectures and documents created in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Terra Incognita
Marking the impact of the University of the Arts on land use in Center City Philadelphia.
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A Typology of Mess Punkt
A photographic series documenting measuring points in Berlin, Germany.
La Ville Loopy
A “loopy” meditation on the modernist architectural paradigm.
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