Global travels, educational activism, and Open Source: Recent D & T grad Joe...
Joe Saavedra graduated from the Design and Technology MFA program in 2010. He now serves as an adjunct lecturer in the same program, teaching Creative Computing, CC Lab, Core Lab: Interaction, “and a...
View ArticleSolutions for New York City’s Sewer Problem
It's clogged up! Photo courtesy of Leif Percifeld. Last week, Harlem residents held their noses as millions of gallons of untreated sewage water flowed straight into the Harlem and Hudson rivers...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Zoetrope! (Finally…!)
Can you say “lenticular zoetrope” three times fast? Lentic- lencul- zoetric… Hm. The Zoetrope installation at Union Square The Zoetrope project began in a Collaborative Studio course last semester,...
View ArticleTonight: Opening Reception of Amplifying Creative Communities Exhibit in...
Amplifying Creative Communities: North Brooklyn November 7–20, 2011 Arts@Renaissance 2 Kingsland Avenue @ Maspeth Avenue Brooklyn, NY www.renaissancenbk.org Opening Reception: Thursday, November 10,...
View ArticleAmplify Brooklyn: Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level
The concept of “wicked problems” refers to problems that are considered impossible to solve because of complex interdependencies within a system; only discrete and context-specific interventions can...
View ArticleThe New School In Exile, Revisited
My memoir of the New School’s 2008 student occupation, from the third n+1 Occupy! gazette: I arrived at the New School in the fall of 2008 to do a master’s degree in anthropology. Tuition was $23,000...
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