Aerial Crowd Studies
Using an 8 foot diameter red weather balloon, crowd structures at San Diego immigration rallies were analyzed and aestheticized.
View ArticleParty Studies
A highly rigorous analysis of the construction of social networks and the patterns of attentional flow within naturalistic party environments. Online Videos by Veoh.com
View ArticleBioMemetics of Myspace
Biomemetics is an interactive animated visualization of the exchange of media and the structure of popularity within the largest online social network, Myspace.com. This interactive visualization...
View ArticleIdentity Construction
Identity Construction (Marcuse Gallery, 2007) addresses the structural aesthetics of Myspace.com. While Myspace is considered by many to be an aesthetic nightmare, its formal structure may be largely...
View ArticleRealTimeLapse (and HeatMaps)
This is a MAX-MSP video technique for showing a time accelerated view of the recent past, so a participant can see themselves in the context of continually changing social structures. The camera...
View ArticleThe Labyrinth
From the mechanically regular grids of UCSD’s Eucalyptus trees, a soft translucent structure spirals into an set of 25 rooms and passageways. The material construction of the Labyrinth enables it to...
View ArticleSocial Architectures Course
Does architectural design affect social dynamics? Social Architectures, taught by Derek Lomas in 2007, led 20 students in the production of 10 architectural interventions that were designed to induce...
View ArticleDesign for Development Course
Course Web Site: www.Design4Dev.com News Coverage from: The Economic Times of India Design for Development: Developing Technologies for Developing Economie Design for Development: Developing...
View ArticleNeuroethology of Myspace
Neuroethology explores the role of empathy in information visualization by combining EEG recordings of a Myspace user with their on-screen Myspace activity and their off-screen facial expressions....
View ArticleMobile Camera Tower
The Mobile Camera Tower is an inexpensive, quickly assembled mechanism for recording aerial footage of public spaces. The 40′ high portable tower assists the documentation and analysis of the structure...
View ArticleTV Shrine
Inspired by the nature-embedded shrines of traditional Hinduism, TV Shrine sought to generate a calm and anti-sociable space through the architectural intervention of a Television in the UC San Diego...
View ArticleAnti-Normalizer
Anti-Normalizer is a location-based mobile phone scavenger hunt for weird and deviant behavior. The game was created as a mechanism for stimulating social change by presenting alternative models for...
View ArticleMyspace Ethnography
A year long ethnographic study of the world’s largest online social network. We collected data through a range of methods, including offline ethnographic film of user behavior, longitudinal online...
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Comparative Graffiti Study, San Jose
Comparative Graffiti Study, San Jose is an urban architectural intervention that enabled a controlled study of the production of graffiti across four neighborhoods in central San Jose. Four 8′x2′x2′...
View ArticleThe Playpower Foundation
For more information, please visit www.playpower.org The Playpower Foundation seeks to improve education around the world by using $12 “TV-Computers” as a platform for radically affordable learning...
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