Month: March 2016

  • I was a young black man, light-skinned enough so that four out of five people who met me, of whatever race, assumed I was white… I was a homosexual who now knew he could function heterosexually. And I was a young writer whose early attempts had already gotten him a handful of prizes… So, I…

  • Podcast, Johanna Drucker: “Designing Digital Humanities” – MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

    Podcast, Johanna Drucker: “Designing Digital Humanities” – MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing janaski: What is the role of design in modeling digital humanities? Can we imagine new forms of argument and platforms that support interpretative work? So much of the computationally driven environment of digital work has been created by design/engineers that humanistic values and methods…

  • The Politics of Public Playfulness (transcript) • A Playful Path

    The Politics of Public Playfulness (transcript) • A Playful Path The Politics of Public Playfulness (transcript) • A Playful Path. We kind of get embarrassed to be seen being playful. We kind of get a feeling that it’s illegal to be playful. Because, you know, you’re playful, you go out some place and you’re being playful,…

  • “Code Drawings in Hopscotch” Reconstruction 16.1 (2016): ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields

    “Code Drawings in Hopscotch” Reconstruction 16.1 (2016): ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields

  • coconutmilk83: Meryl Streep | 6th Annual Women in the World Summit, 2015 (✗)

  • protoslacker: International Women’s Day Pledge for Parity Everyone – men and women – can pledge to take a concrete step to help achieve gender parity more quickly – whether to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, call for gender-balanced leadership, respect and value difference, develop more inclusive and flexible cultures or root out workplace…

  • additivism: COLAB Residency + Workshop, Auckland, (Mar 20th – Apr 6th) #Additivism (Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke) will be in residence at Colab: a collaboratory for Design and Creative Technologies at the Auckland University of Technology. COLAB EVENTS Click on the event links for more information about each individual event.Join the Facebook Event to keep…

  • Women you should read about on International Women’s Day

    guardian: Sonita Alizadeh’s family first considered selling her into marriage when she was just 10 years old. At 16, they said they had found her a husband, but she found a way to escape. She wrote “Brides for Sale”, a rap tackling the issue of daughters being sold into marriages by their family and created…

  • With a few sticky notes and a whiteboard, you can accomplish just about anything. Facilitating Great Design (via iamdanw)

  • lafilleblanc: Mark Rothko Chapel (architects: Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry, 1971) In 1964 Mark Rothko was commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil (who are also founders of the nearby Menil Collection that is housed in the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Museum and Cy Twombly Gallery) to create a meditative space filled with his site-specific paintings.…