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 »
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.
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.

A design research project that reimagines civil discourse in the context of social media and networked communication.

Site-specific interventions, performances, lectures and documents created in Alexandria, Egypt.

Marking the impact of the University of the Arts on land use in Center City Philadelphia.
A photographic series documenting measuring points in Berlin, Germany.
A “loopy” meditation on the modernist architectural paradigm.