CRAFTED CONNECTIVITY

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With this small project I was experimenting with giving digital social content a tangible form in order to reveal how tangibility creates meaning.
I think these “tweeting cards” (excuse the pun), create a clear illustration of how a mundane status update or tweet can take on greater meaning when it is manifest in a tangible and [...]

Here is a proposed project that exemplifies the use of digital social media in the physical world. Here’s a thought: What additional meaning does a twitter post acquire when it is employed in tangible interface?
First, it gains a spacial quality, limiting the audience to people in physical proximity, within eye-gaze. This narrowcasting provokes physical [...]

I’m ambitiously attempting to create a printer. It’s probably been done before, but I think I still want to take a crack at it.
I’m calling it the hand printer and it is a communication device that allows for hand written notes to be transferred digitally. I hope to preserve the material nature of the handwritten [...]

Week 7 – “What methods of visualization could be used to better represent the real self?”
Project: Experience Diagrams and Life Maps
Project: Visualizing Collaboration as an Instrument
Project: Exploring Networked Data Visualizations
Reading: “Simulations,” Baudrillard; “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” Simmel; “Visual Explanations,” “Beautiful Evidence,” Tufte
Week 8 – “What are the possible poetic expressions of this tangible, embodied [...]

In addition to the issues surrounding data collection, lies the matter of representing the virtual profile in a visual fashion. Common across most social media platforms is the use of a simple photo avatar or icon. These icons are of no practical use when determining the reasons for connecting or collaborating with a particular person.
The [...]

This project seeks to reveal the results of a collaboration under unpredictable and unstable constraints. The purpose of this exercise is to see how the participants respond under these constraints. As the details and constraints of the project are selected trivially, attention will be primarily focused on the act of design itself as it occurs [...]

“TODAY” Collaborative Curration from Hunter Sebresos on Vimeo

PROJECT BRIEF:
Curate a space with your collaborator on the theme of “Today” over a period of two weeks.
Rules:
1. You may only add a total of two pieces per day.
2. You may not curate the space in the presence of your collaborator.
3. Don’t break anything or post anything that [...]

PROJECT BRIEF:
Experience the nature of collaboration through the eye of a volunteer.
Advertise FREE design services through a variety of media.
Coordinate with the partner on location and time. Complete at least one project as a team.
Project Constraints:
1-3 hours each visit. Three visits with separate collaborators. Project medium and content determined by the person who answers [...]

How is the creation of content affected by collaboration?
I’d like to explore this question through a regiment of collaborative projects, all of which play with the arrangement of people and constraints. The focus of this work will be less on the outcomes of the projects themselves and more on the process of working under certain [...]