Archive for 'projects'
signage/wheelchair (ongoing series)
I rarely see this second image in use, but I was gratified to see it near the entrances and restrooms at MOMA when I visited this summer. 03/28/10: Found the newer image in use at Marshalls, in a shopping plaza here in Cambridge. Bargain-basement prices AND evolved design sense:
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speculative machinery (ongoing series)
I’m looking for collaborators to propose new tools—speculative machines—that invert or transform or exaggerate an adaptive aid that already exists. Here’s a first design:…
read moreinternational lab coat symbol (ongoing series)
I’ve started a collaborative, public project designed as interventions in medical office waiting rooms, and I’m looking for partners. I’ve made these postcard drawings of lab coats, and I’d like collaborators to place a card in one of the magazines that sit in waiting rooms, leaving them for the next prospective patient. The dynamics of [...]
read moretools for historical imagination: jury duty
Tools for Historical Imagination: Jury Duty Running Time: 7 min 35 sec I’ve been interested in judicial service for a long time—the daunting responsibility of it, the chance to look inside the justice system, the human stories at the center of any case. After serving on a case in 2003, I couldn’t shake the feeling [...]
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I’m collaborating with the Philosophical Psychology Lab at Gordon College, working with philosopher Brian Glenney on experiments with the vOICe, also known as the Seeing With Sound device. The tool utilizes a camera, embedded in a pair of glasses or goggles, and translates its intake into “readable” soundwaves through earphones—either assigning sounds to light and [...]
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Representing disability is a challenge; representing cognitive or developmental disability may be more so. Here’s an image from a series of bulletin boards, created in late 2007 by the NYU Child Study Center. Designed as ransom notes, they were created as a public awareness campaign about various childhood neurological conditions, including the autism spectrum. But [...]
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