My time as a MFA candidate in the
Design and Technology program at
Parsons The New School for Design.

Doing some research for my Major Studio final project, I ran across this: BibliOdyssey: Board Games Board game boards from way back. Very cool.

I attended the “Expropriating Labor in Virtual Worlds” session. I missed the Christiane Paul presentation due to my previous class, but I did catch the tail end of the Geoff Cox presentation through the end of the session and the roundtable discussion. No MatterScott Kildall, Victoria Scotthttp://turbulence.org/Works/nomatter/ This presentation focused on the project “No Matter” [...]

This past week and a half was the big climax and season finale of our Instruction Sets project. Last Tuesday Jeanna and I went to Greenacre to put our intervention – as well as Ron Saures blessing – to the test. We revised the brochure/map according to some feedback we received from classmates. People told [...]

Relations in Public (Goffman) I would emphasize the “micro” in this text’s subtitle “Microstudies of the Public Order”. It’s remarkable how low level and granular this observational analysis is. It is kind of funny though that a chapter entitled “The Individual as a Unit” kicks off with the author decrying the imprecision of the use [...]

Here is the second of my reading responses to my classmates midterms: Link

So I called Ron Saures this morning per Durrell’s instructions. Ron is the man that I called on the very first day of our observation when I was checking to see when the heat lamps would be turned on. I explained to him that I am a graduate student at Parsons and am doing research [...]

This was our first attempt at the brochure/map intervention after our rain out. There were a good number of people in the street and the park. Weather was pretty nice. All that was left was to intervene. We set the table just outside the park entrance. I observed the table and Jeanna observed the “X” [...]

For our second intervention we decided to minimize the stasis that people seem achieve in their time at the park. We observed that people who sit at the park – people who come to eat, have a coffee, and/or read – tend to enter the park, sit in one location, and then leave. We thought [...]

Considering how highly regulated the park is, we thought it would be a good idea to do a very small intervention as a test. We decided on the idea of putting very small bouquets of nice flowers on just a few of the tables and seeing how people (patrons and management) would react. Jeanna bought [...]

So, I’m still playing a little bit of catch up with my documentation for the Instruction Sets for Strangers project. The is the project that I was scoping out parks and plazas for. I am collaborating on this project with one other person, classmate Jeanna Hamilton. During the week of October 14th through the 20th, [...]