Emergence Team 2007

For my assistanceship this semester, I have been placed on the Emergence team. What is Emergence? It’s a student-run conference put on by the CMU School of Design. Last September was the first one, and it was quite a success. My specific responsibility is the website....

Empty Space Loses Its Meaning

I read the following quote in the appendix of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, which a friend laid in my lap while I was drinking beer and searching for new clothes online at 1 a.m. I wished to show that space-time is not necessarily something to which one can...

Emergence Photos

I posted the photos from Emergence to Flickr. There is also an Emergence Flickr group.

A Bit Behind

Time is increasingly becoming scarce. Or perhaps I should say that my time is increasingly becoming consumed so that there is no time. I had a coffee around midnight, so I’m up. This is good because I have a couple readings for my 10 a.m. class still to do....

Emergence 2006: Service Design

Today I attended Emergence, a conference put together by Carnegie Mellon School of Design graduate students. The focus on the inaugural event is service design, which the students identified as an emerging field in design. This conference is the first international...