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

In the spirit of “making is thinking”, I decided to go ahead and set up a development site for an internal RC wiki. While discussions with ARC/GNY tech people might prove the wiki to be an inappropriate format for what I’m suggesting, I thought some hands-on research with the technology would further my understanding of [...]

After researching a few different ideas for what to do for my RC Collab project, I decided on addressing “Institutional Memory”. The basic idea is that due to the overwhelmingly volunteer status of the Red Cross workforce the opportunity to lose ground-up knowledge and experience is much greater than in a more conventional work or [...]

Yesterday in class we started going over some ideas for projects. Most of the discussion was really at the level of topics or areas of interest rather than specific projects. So we were encouraged to start thinking of potential specifics. Mathan and Nigel (the instructors) said that by the end of the semester they hoped [...]

Yesterday I went on a ride along with the local Red Cross chapter – the American Red Cross in Greater New York (ARCGNY). I arrived at the RC at 9am, with notepad and pen ready. I met a number of people pretty quickly and struggled somewhat to understand their relationship to myself, each other, and the [...]