A Berlin Chronicle

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 in musings, project news and tagged , ,

This video presents one potential, incomplete interpretation of my past as it is extracted and compiled from an archive of inconsequential digital “memories” of a past time in Berlin. A fragmented reading of Walter Benjamin’s short essay and urban memoir, “A Berlin Chronicle,” serves as the contextual foundation for this exploration of the digital detritus that increasingly augments and exteriorizes one’s memories.

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I live and work in Philadelphia where I am an Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Industrial Design program at The University of the Arts. I am also a founding member of The Think Tank that has yet to be named, a collaborative project which initiates research, conversations, and actions that explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.

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    Adapts the ecological model of forest succession in order to explore the ways in which cities change over time.

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