Archive for the ‘academia’ Category

LSU Design Week 2010

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

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.

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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 ...

language {..II..}

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

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 ...

Language

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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 ...

scale and resolution

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

A lot of thought has been circulating regarding scale and resolution in regards to perception, sensing, and visualization. Allowing an objects scale to be manipulated and projected re-contextualizes the object... The issue comes up that the projection itself can create the re-contextualization but developing a framework that keeps the object ...

sensed perception

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Several new projects underway that are extensions of work from sensing the landscape and representation workflows. Looking at digital representation it is interesting to note the expression of the design drawings as product of their medium. There are a few things to really express within this framework ... image/design context, ...