UN Visit 1) What did you think of your visit to the UN? Which speaker did you find the most inspiring and why? It was really impressive and wonderful to have spend the evening in such an amazing building full of students an really interesting speakers. For me all the speakers had something important to […]
Month: February 2017
“Bridge Assignment 3- Societal + Global + Natural systems – Disruptive tools + strategies”
Part 1- Keeping in mind the film shown and examples of data visualizations (as a tool and strategy) discussed in class, pick an object that relates to your issue. Think about what intrigues you about the object and how knowing more about it can help you understand your issue better. What questions do you want to attempt to […]
“Short Assignment: Seeing the Internet”
It was really hard for me to find traces of the internet in the streets of New York City, since most of the cable work is underground, not like back home that is up in the air and visible. Most of my findings come from the street signs used to indicate that there is cables […]
“Week 4: Regeneration and Repair Part 1”
1) What did you learn from Tattfoo’s visit? Was his work inspiring? What did you enjoy the most? In Tattfoo’s visit I learned how important it is to try and create things that are necessary and they have a propose but also create tools that can have multiple functions. His work was really inspiring because it showed me […]
“Week 3: Material Systems and the Anthropocene”
1) Do you think the ten Long Life Design Criteria can assist in designing objects and products that assist in meeting the challenges created by the Anthropocene? If so, which ones? If not, what criteria would you add or how would you update the current list to account for specific design challenges presented by the Anthropocene? I personally think […]
Bridge Assignment 2- Communal/ Domestic Systems + Disruptive Tools
PART 1: Mapping and Layering Base Layer: This would be an aerial map view of part of the greenwich village area. 1st layer: Mexican Food 2nd layer: Bars 3rd layer: American Food 4th layer: Asian Food 5th layer: Italian Food PART 2: At the beginning of the exercise is was really hard for me to find […]
Bridge Project nº 2: Communal/ Domestic systems
Map Critique What’s this map about? What’s its topic? The exhibition is composed of a series of videos that shows in detailed the story of eight individuals who were forced to travel illegally throughout the Mediterranean basin due to political and economic circumstances. What’s on the map? Since it is a video-map presentation it is […]
Assignment 2 : Immigration, Imaginary systems + Disruptive strategies
Part 1 ————— The Prezi presentation that I created focuses on the topic of immigration. Nowadays this is a really current and popular topic that is constantly being discussed global. I decided this was a really interesting topic to research on since I had always grown up in a cultural diverse environment, living with people […]
“Week 2: Long Life Design + Anthropocene”
1) What do you think of the ten Long Life Design criteria? Which of the ten criteria do you feel are most important and innovative? In what ways are they innovative? What questions do you have about them? I think it a really good idea for designers to have a criteria to follow in order to […]