Reactscape

Augmented Reality

February 9, 2010 – 12:43 am
Great representation of augmented reality on Vimeo. Found the video through a post on Mammoth. Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo. The video speaks to a change in how we conceptualize the built environment, specifically architectural surfaces and products within that environment.

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Mississippi Basin Model

February 3, 2010 – 6:37 am
On Sunday I traveled with my representation seminar to the Mississippi Basin Model in Clinton, MS. I have been to the site several times and I am always amazed at the possibilities of such a device. As an armature the model provides an interesting datum to attach new content. The ...

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LSU Design Week 2010

February 3, 2010 – 3:10 am
Flickr Photo Pool Design Week at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture finished up last Friday (Jan 29th). This year the format was slightly different, instead of inviting a single practitioner/academic to host design week we decided to invite four visitors with varying backgrounds. The topic of design week was ...

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Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects

December 4, 2009 – 7:43 am
Reviewing the page proofs for the book which is exciting, slowly going through the proofs. We have a short foreword from Ken Smith which frames the book nicely and there is a good deal of information for beginning landscape students and professionals that are looking to get their head around ...

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Brain Slicing

December 3, 2009 – 8:58 am
The Brain Observatory is currently slicing a brain into very thin slices and preserving the slices between glass slides. Similar to transect recording in the landscape, could be an interesting recording mechanism with playback or navigation along and through the sections. The ability to dive into a space (brain) and ...

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Interactive Cities

March 7, 2009 – 11:20 pm
Jeffrey Huang, professor of mine from the GSD, has an interesting talk at the LIFT Asia '08 conference. I find it most interesting that Jef is always searching for interactive methods which change our social interactions within the urban fabric. The projects he showcases use specific analog/digital relationships that contest ...

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language {..II..}

February 14, 2009 – 3:20 am
Developing a mediating language through abstraction creates an approach that addresses simultaneous issues in enviro-tech interfaces for sensing, responsiveness, automation, and interactivity. This language exists in the liminal realm between dry {technology} and wet {biology} attempting to embrace a moist medium (roy ascott). Abstraction addresses simultaneous modes of complexity that ...

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Language

December 17, 2008 – 7:58 pm
There have been discussions, within the Lab, about language to talk between machines, environment, and people. This comes in multiple forms, from a design standpoint to a logical interface between chaotically complex components. This lends itself to the development of methods of abstraction, taking infinitely complex organism and finding threads ...

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outside:in

May 31, 2008 – 12:33 am
Urban environments provide a broad spectrum of opportunities to conceptualize the role of screens or projections as methods to sculpt or define spatial relationships. Outside:In proposes to use the concept of urban screens to highlight the relationship between vertical levels within the city fabric. The relationship between underground spaces such ...

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Cloud

February 5, 2008 – 6:29 am
An interesting installtion entitled Cloud by the design firm Troika, commissioned for the British Airways terminal at Heathrow Airport, London. The surface of sculpture uses 'flip-dots' that are individual addressable by proprietary software. More info about the software can be found at Pixel Sumo.

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