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May 17, 2017

Designing Transparency

This is a working draft of some thoughts concerning design I’ve been throwing around in my head for a while now. In my undergraduate curriculum, we constantly talk about how design will change the world but we rarely critically examine our practice. …

Design

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Designing Transparency
Designing Transparency
Design

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Jan 24, 2017

LXD readings

1/24 Ambrose: Upon first glance, content is presented in a fairly common format: a principle or claim is made and various case studies are offered to back up the claim. The use of the anecdotes at the beginning of the chapter was interesting when compared to the research used to…

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LXD readings
LXD readings

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Jan 23, 2017

hazelwood: stakeholders (i)

Hazelwood Episode 09 of Grapple takes you to Hazelwood. It's a neighborhood in Southeast Pittsburgh that's only four miles from…grapplepodcast.atavist.com used to have a lot of activity (churches, bars, stores, banks) white flight (60, 70s), segregated neighborhoods (the black street, white street), post-MLK, unearthed racism/more blatant (ie 2nd ave race riots), trauma in community from institutionalized racism

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Dec 14, 2016

Speak Lab (pt. 2)

One of the major challenges for working mom is time. To balance one personal life, work life, and family life while getting enough sleep in a twenty-four hour day is damn near impossible. Having it all might be impossible and leaning in doesn’t work for everyone. I chose to work…

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Speak Lab (pt. 2)
Speak Lab (pt. 2)

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Dec 14, 2016

Speak Lab (pt. 4)

Final presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iawwblk56rvs4t/pres.pdf?dl=0 final thoughts to come

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Nov 28, 2016

Speak Lab

This map is based primarily upon these couple sources originally provided. The Freakanomics podcast was especially helpful, and this initial round of quick research dispelled a lot of my own previous ideas about the gender pay gap. …

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Speak Lab
Speak Lab

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Nov 21, 2016

Speak Lab (pt. 3)

I built the map around the persona of a young single mom working a minimum wage job. I tried to focus on stability in the present and future. …

Women

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Speak Lab (pt. 3)
Speak Lab (pt. 3)
Women

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Nov 4, 2016

We All Scream

As part of an increasingly militarized police force in civilian communities, drones become a regular presence in America’s airspace. …

Drones

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We All Scream
We All Scream
Drones

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Oct 24, 2016

06 thesis

Phrases/scraps from the past few weeks that have led to this: figure and ground; objects and context pivot point refocus into clarity systems level change accessibility increasingly complex world power and meaning of imagery, identity to understand why things are unseen networks/systems, who owns, who creates? … V1: In an…

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Oct 17, 2016

04 wandering and wondering

I found this process to be a bit awkward. I find that when I look at things or moments, I tend to think about how I might frame it as a photograph. Like this is really a pretty ordinary photo of nothing in particular around a bus stop. I had…

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04 wandering and wondering
04 wandering and wondering

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