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The Analog Underground = Neo-Luddites?

7 July 2011 · 0 Comments

The July 3rd issued of New York Magazine features an article about The Analog Underground, “[a] new generation of digital apostates rejects zeroes and ones in favor of celluloid, vinyl, ink, paper, and the click-clack-ding-slide of a typewriter.”  I came across the article rather serendipitously online in the course of some research I have been [...]

New York · Technology · Writing


Teaching at SVA’s New MFA program in Design for Social Innovation starting 2012

10 May 2011 · 0 Comments

My Purpose colleague, Alessandra Orofino, and I will be teaching at SVA’s MFA program in Design for Social Innovation when the department opens in fall 2012. Social innovation is the application of new strategies and models to solving the challenges the world faces and to strengthening society. The MFA in Design for Social Innovation will [...]

Design · Education · Interactive · New York · News · PURPOSE · Technology


Purpose @ SXSW 2011

3 March 2011 · 0 Comments

Goodbye Oil: Accelerating the Electric Car Movement Join leaders of the electric car movement to debate how online organizing, culture jamming, and social influence can turn electric cars into cultural icons. The only way to break our addiction to oil is to stop driving cars that use it. In 2011, mass- market electric cars will, [...]

Democracy · PURPOSE · Technology


Book Review: What’s Mine Is Y(our)s: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

17 September 2010 · 3 Comments

Haiku synopsis: Tech helps us to share Old impulses, New ideas What is mine is yours Co-authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers present a highly readable overview of the collaborative present and future of consumption as new technologies empower and amplify our basic human urge to share.  I was really excited to finally get my [...]

Interactive · Internet · Technology


More Press for I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG

1 June 2010 · 0 Comments

More press for I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG, an online interactive experience I worked on at Purpose: TechPresident: Avaaz Co-Founders Seek Purpose Driven Consumer Life Huffington Post: Julia Moulden on How to Use Technology to Change the World Cool Hunting: This Week’s Picks PSFK: Online Game I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG Raises Funds, Awareness, and Social Empowerment [...]

Design · Interactive · Internet · Links · Media · News · PURPOSE · Technology