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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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Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (MAEGHT)

Dialogues in Design was a one-week studio experience in design, working with Massimo & Lella Vignelli and Armando & Cynthia Milani. The workshop, international in scope, was conducted the beautiful setting, the studio of Italian designer Armando Milani in Le Rouret, near Nice on the French Riviera. The area, ...

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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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Editorial Revés: Una de cal y otra de arena

Puerto Rico, in it's short 516 year-old political history, has been under the sponsorship of two different parent countries. Such a diverse context equipped the island with a rich and detailed history of its construction sector, particularly in techniques, practices and ways of building. This publication chronologically documents this ...

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Typography as a framework for collaboration

An understanding of the process of collaboration was furthered through an investigation in lightwriting and its typographical possibilities. Carried out as the opening project in a graduate symposium, this study provided a collaborative framework on which a group of participants created messages by visually articulating typographic form. They were asked to ...

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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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Exploring form, message, craft, typography, architecture and building through the re-purposing of construction tools to cast typography

This collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos was for the design of a fountain in the main plaza of Vieques island, located to the east of Puerto Rico. As part of the concept of the overall design, there was an area dedicated to the expression of the relationship between the ...

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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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Working within a pre-established framework

The Puerto Rico chapter of Do.co.mo.mo, the most recent inductee into the larger world-level organization, had to present itself to the community to which it now belonged to. Ivonne Marcial, director of the chapter and photographer, shared a few images representative of the modern movement in Puerto Rico. The typographic ...

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Repositioning through branding

An architecture school intends to reposition itself as a center from which shifting points of view are experienced by students and faculty alike. Multi-layered camouflage forms a metaphor for an institution on whose shoulders rests the responsibility of defining strategies for the future. As such, it becomes a branding device, ...

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