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Advocacy Planning to Open Irrigation Channels in Isabela, Puerto Rico as a Tourism Attraction

The early part of the XXth century witnessed the construction of an extensive web of irrigation channels to distribute water to homes and farmlands in Puerto Rico along more than 35 kms. Still in operation to this day, throughout time different individuals and groups have acknowledged the scenic value ...

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Published on Feb 26, 2009
Filed under: Design Strategy | Design Work | Exhibit Design | homepage | Industrial Design | portfolio | Typography

Seeking large-scale social change as goal

The following is the proposal submitted by the NC State University Master of Graphic Design Students for the 2009 Aspen Design Challenge. Due to the nature of the project, it is here presented in full. It was carried out by Alberto Rigau, Cady Bean-Smith, Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Sidney Fritts, Lauren ...

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Published on Dec 16, 2008
Filed under: Design Process | Design Research | Design Strategy | Design Work | Graduate School | portfolio

Design providing a space for communication

In an effort to further investigate the role of interaction in the establishment of an online community, this group project explored some of the ways an online environment can help make an aspect of urban life more legible to a specific group of interested users....

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Published on Oct 30, 2008
Filed under: Design Process | Design Research | Design Strategy | Design Work | Graduate School | Interaction Design | portfolio

The role of design in establishing community

How can design thinking be used to bring together an online community through the articulation of a specific online experience? As a first step in understanding the implications of this inquiry, concept maps were developed to illustrate, showcase and connect information related to a chosen demographic; in this case, ...

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Published on May 04, 2008
Filed under: Design Process | Design Strategy | Design Work | Graduate School | Interaction Design | portfolio

When digital identities become the real identity

Facebook, Twitter, mySpace, Second Life, AIM, Skype… How many digital identities will one person have? How will these related to one another? Will platforms like Second Life become a place of business, culture exchange, and daily social interaction? This project certainly thinks so, questioning the fate of a person’s ...

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Published on Oct 03, 2007
Filed under: Design Process | Design Strategy | Design Work | Graduate School | portfolio

The designer as middle-man

ELEMENTAL is a Chilean Do Tank that focuses on the design and implementation of urban projects. It thinks, designs and builds better housing and infrastructure to promote social development. At the city of Iquique in Chile, the group conceptualized the design of a neighborhood as an organic system: one ...

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Published on Sep 10, 2007
Filed under: Design Process | Design Strategy | Graduate School | portfolio

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