Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Emergence Conference

  • Emergence 2007 Reflections

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    We did it! After nine months of planning, the conference went off splendidly. The team and I are pretty pleased with ourselves. We succeeded in bringing in more money and more registrations than we had hoped, and were also successful in bringing together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. We got a lot of…

  • Why Attend Emergence

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    I’ve been busting my balls on Emergence over the summer, and things have kicked into high gear with the conference less than two weeks away. Overall, we’re in a good place. We’ve already matched last year’s attendance, and the lineup is one that I’m excited about and believe will appeal to a variety of designers.…

  • I need a whiteboard to diagram my warring obligations

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    Seminar Paper I downloaded about 30 research papers that I thought might pertain to my Seminar paper topic for Jodi Forlizzi. Yes, I know that’s too much. But around every corner is another fascinating paper on some aspect of design. I suppose this insatiable appetite is why I’m in this program. I also bought Donald…

  • Emergence Theme Is Service Design 2.0

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    We decided to build off the momentum from last year’s Emergence conference and tackle service design again. But “again” is really the wrong way to put it, because that’s not how we’re thinking about it. The theme is Exploring the Boundaries of Service Design, and it will take place September 7–9. Our goal is to…

  • Brief Update

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    I finished my resume, but it’s not online. It was sent to companies that will be coming to the school of design’s job fair. Also, I have yet to update my online portfolio. I hope to find time to do that soon. But I don’t know when I’ll find time. The Emergence team got some…

  • Emergence Team 2007

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    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. Though I am also the team lead. I am…

  • Empty Space Loses Its Meaning

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    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 ascribe a separate existence,…

  • Emergence Photos

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

  • A Bit Behind

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    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. Mostly, I have been keeping up.…