beyond extraction
Araucanía and antofogasta’s geological narratives
in daily memoriam
A Cooking Machine – Audience Participation & Feedback
Learn about how I engaged my friends through cooking and interviews to obtain feedback that can help me optimize my project’s technical decisions to fit my audience’s cooking needs.
Traipsing through Boston in 1783
The historical film is a journey into the past. You watch as known narratives or even alternative ones unfold, catching a glimpse of idiosyncrasies, and at times, judging historical accuracy. So if the historical film is a journey into the past, then the historical game, in this case Assassins Creed III, is an experience of that past through the lens of a participant that has a hand in the unfolding of those narratives, occupying space and viscerally reacting to the events that have been coded in.
Call and Response - Error and Precision
Error is good, and precision is a technical myth.
From the hatch tests we drew last week, it is clear that this instrument is most precise when both the X and Y axes are moving together. Diagonal lines, in this case at a 45 degree angle, are drawn on paper with the greatest fidelity to the coded input drawn in CAD space. This makes me think that this instrument and I have some similarities, gravitating towards drawings created in the plan oblique, or axonometric projections.
Call and Response - Fidelity
The fidelity between the drawing and coded input is one of the ways this instrument influences our collaboration
Part 2: Watertown & Somerville
On a grey Wednesday afternoon, Carol-Anne and I, Ana, took the bus down Mt Auburn St into Watertown, to visit Tabrizi Bakery owned by Mohammad Tabrizi. The store is famous for its Persian cookies. We tasted nazok, papion, zaban, and rice flour cookies, among others. They all have a subtle, soft sweetness with hints of cardamon.
Five miles east in Somerville is The Neighborhood Restaurant. On a sunny summer afternoon, I sat down in the vine-covered outdoor patio that defines the restaurant’s dining experience. Before even sitting down with me, the owner, Sheila Borges, served me a bowl of The Neighborhood’s famous cream of wheat. It’s a warm, sweet and creamy porridge with a rich taste of cinnamon.
A Cooking Machine - Audience Building through Storytelling
Learn about Ma Po Tofu's original story and recipe and the latest progress of building the Instagram profile for the Stories of Food & Tech column.
Call and Response - Lines
I spent two weeks in the winter building a small machine.
It is a machine with three motors, three drive screw rotary axes, and a motion controller – it is most simply something that can move precisely in three dimensions and is controlled by numbers.
Letters to those eyes I have met, I have loved, and I have left
I recollect and I hide and I yearn - such are the feelings of flipping through a family album. Who is removed? Who have I obliviated? I forget and I cannot.
A Brief Attempt to Diagram Homes in Open World Games
In an open-world game where you can own homes, what exactly do you experience as a player? What do these homes provide after stripping away our actions in real life, such as eating, cleaning, or sleeping? Here, the definition of home is literal: It does not imply the symbolic meaning of belonging to a player community. Home, here, is also interchangeable with a plethora of synonyms, such as a safe house, hideout, base, home plate, garage, HQ…
So… I’m an engineer now
To new challenges, and solving problems at the intersection of fields
Week II - III: The City & Global Economy
In reading Rem’s and Sassen’s writing on globalization – and in part due to their Dutch nationality – I was reminded of the lustfully divergent joy and terror of vanitas style paintings that emanated from the beginnings of globalization in 16th century Holland. (Bayowa) // Koolhaas' Junkspace is a fundamentally thermodynamic and geological phenomenon concerned with the reorganization of matter, a single, giant, convective substrate. On the surface it appears hyperspatial: a collapsing of reality into a topologically connected network of air conditioned nodes. (Wolk)
an introduction | reflections on space
Its been a long sojourn in an apartment I found on Craigslist.
Intro: Welcome to Boston
Their restaurants are where they can call upon their old worlds to bring comfort not only for themselves, but to others who crave a “taste of home”.
A Cooking Machine - Building an Audience for Fundraising
Building an audience is often an essential step when fundraising for a project. Read more to learn how I envision fundraising, address who my readers are and how to engage them in support of my effort to make a cooking machine.
Letter from the Editor: New Beginnings 2021-2022
Amid this lingering uncertainty and increasing busy-being that comes with starting a new semester, I hope that above all out of frame can continue to serve as a space of intimate and safe reflection
A Small Thought on Architectural Education
Looking into how the portfolio business started, how the university education system has bred the portfolio business, and what reflections we can take away from these agencies.