Against Search by Lev Manovich
How to work with massive media data sets? Early 21st century media researchers have access to unprecedented amounts of media–more than they can possibly study, let alone simply watch or even search. A number of interconnected developments which took place between 1990 and 2010–the digitization of analog media collections, a decrease in prices and expanding […]
The Arrogance of Permanence (or Designs Should Flow like Leaves) by Aly Khalifa
We are taught in design school that the best designs have a lasting quality. We see beautiful commercial objects in venues like New York’s Museum of Modern Art and are led to think it represents the ultimate achievement of a design project. Designers are then inspired to create solutions that might one day be next […]
401 Oberlin Road + 520 S Person Street by Erin Sterling Lewis
Change is constant. It insinuates impermanence and can be exciting or devastating. Living in the fast growing city of Raleigh, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of change since moving here in 2002 – some exciting and some devastating. I practiced architecture for seven years before serving on the Raleigh Planning Commission. I worked on buildings […]
An Interview with Dan Gottlieb
(Dan Gottlieb was interviewed by Shelley Smith, Master of Art + Design student) [SS] I’d like us to just kind of start with a general who you are and how you came to be here. You mentioned that you were a fine artist, so–that’s quite a career path. [DG] Yes, well, in retrospect, it feels […]
Hopscotch by Grayson Currin
Last weekend, people would not stop asking me if I was having a good time. In rock clubs, on city street corners and even at the table at which my wife and I finally sat down to have dinner around 1:30 a.m. on a Friday night: Everywhere I went, there the question (or some variation […]
What Does Planting Tomatoes Have To Do with Fashion? by Natalie Chanin
This essay is adapted and reprinted with permission from EarthPledge Publishing. The Alabama tomato is truly a wonder. It takes on the color of the deep red soil, and the taste borders on sweet and tart. I grew up eating these tomatoes straight out of my grandparent’s garden in Florence, Alabama, and after having lived […]
Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World by Catherine D’Ignazio
Terra Incognita was a Latin term used on maps from the Age of Discovery to denote unexplored territories. It’s a perspectival term. Because, of course, there were people like the Tupinambá actually living in those seemingly unexplored lands on Martin Waldseemüller’s map. The places the Tupinambá knew intimately — where they fished or hunted or […]
Blur by Elizabeth Diller, Richard Scofidio and Charles Renfro
Location: Yverdons-les-Bains, Switzerland Scale: 80,000 sf (7400 sm) Status: Completed 2002 Awards Progressive Architecture – P/A Design Award – 2003 Swiss TV and B. magazine – Golden Rabbit for Best Building of 2002 – 2003 The Guardian – Top Ten Buildings of the Decade – 2009 Summary Blur is an architecture of atmosphere—a fog mass resulting from natural […]
Accessing the City: The rise of tactical urbanism by Matt Tomasulo
by Matt Tomasulo {abstract} Matt Tomasulo is a graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at North Carolina State University, with a Master of City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the founder of CityFabric in Raleigh, which has a mission “to engage as many people as possible in conversation about their […]
Transforming Design Education
By Deb Littlejohn, PhD {abstract} Deborah Littlejohn is a design researcher and educator. Her research is guided by questions that address the field of relations among networked technology, new information environments and design pedagogy, and the ability of people to learn, adapt and change. Her dissertation was a grounded theory study on the outcomes of […]
