I’m back from Barcelona and London, and hope to be posting my impressions from OFFF and a talk we gave at theNational Maritime Museum in the next couple of days. Things are a bit hectic; the studio has some new projects either just launched or about to launch (more on that later), and I’m off to New York in a few days for a few days, to do:
AIGANY: May 29, 7pm
I’m honored to have been invited to take place in an upcoming AIGA NY event: “Fresh Dialogue 23: Designing Audiences,” which will putStefan Bucher, Katie Salen and me on a stage with the amazing Ze Frank, of all people. We’ve been asked to talk about (and hopefully show) how our various projects open up an inclusive engagement with the people who use our work, allowing them to shape and impact the end product in a much more direct way than is normal with traditional design and media.
Postopolis: June 1, 6pm
Now this sounds cool:
“Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers, from four different cities, will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face to face interaction.”
I’m a big fan and avid reader of two of the blogs mentioned above: BLDGBLOG and City of Sound — and am excited to find out more about the people and ideas behind Subtopia and Inhabitat, who are also presenting at the conference. So if you’re in New York during either of those times, please do let me know and/or stop by, the events are both open to the public.
Being asked to speak in New York City has a special poignancy for me (thanks, Mike and Dan!); the city and I have a somewhat, well, checkeredhistory when it comes to design and architecture and I’m really looking forward to something of a homecoming. Stamen has been talking to architects and about architecture for some time now, and we’re really looking to start thinking more publicly about urban spaces and data flows, so I have the feeling this is going to be the first of many conversations like this.