The Coffeehouse: A Communication Hotspot in Transition My attention was first pointed at the coffeehouse as a changing hub of communication a while ago, while I was doing some fieldwork of observing the street intersection of Grand Avenue and Clifton Place ...Read More
This post will outline what I hope will be my final mapping project (more on hopes and hopes-potentially-dashed later). I want to start with this chart, which I can point to as a major piece of inspiration behind this proposed project: This ...Read More
As my first process blog post, below is my project proposal. My brain is starting to ache in empathy for Rory, who will probably pull his hair out when he has to help with the "technological wrangling" of those of ...Read More
While I'm saving my actual project proposal for another posting that I will try to get up tomorrow prior to class, I wanted to share some things that I have been looking at over the past couple of weeks whilst ...Read More
Jesse Shapins -- PhD student and co-instructor of "Media Archaeology of Place" at Harvard; co-founder of Union Docs; and co-creator of Mapping Main Street, Yellow Arrow, and Pleriplurban -- will be joining us in class on October 20. He's asked ...Read More
As my first process blog post, I wanted to post my proposal for the final project and contribution to the URT map. For my final project in Urban Media Archeology, I would like to investigate the architecture of media publishers in ...Read More
There's a lot of stuff this weekend related to our work. Here's one more thing. I heard a cart for this week's Radio Lab which will be about cities. They haven't written anything about the forthcoming show on their website, but ...Read More
Artist, historian and urban spelunker Steve Duncan will be giving a keynote talk October 8 in the auditorium at Conflux HQ. Steve’s photography explores the hidden side of quotidian urban life, taking his audience to the forgotten spaces of New ...Read More
This exhibition presents eleven architectural projects on five continents that respond to localized needs in underserved communities. These innovative designs signal a renewed sense of commitment, shared by many of today’s practitioners, to the social responsibilities of architecture. Though this ...Read More
Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche NYC from Michael Zick Doherty on Vimeo. Bring to Light is New York City's first-ever Nuit Blanche festival. A Nuit Blanche is an all night arts festival of installations and performances celebrating the magic ...Read More