January 2012
6 posts
Harvard opens door to VCs
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/27/harvard-gets-its-first-vc-firm-the-experiment-fund/
Also see UMich’s Frankel Fund: http://www.zli.bus.umich.edu/wvf/frankel_fund.asp
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“The way corporate entities approach social media is shifting. Many companies...”
– Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012 | TechCrunch
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WatchC-BIP Student Work on Box.net
December 2011
7 posts
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Notes on Reinhold Martin's "Professional...
“Architecture and its Pasts” Symposium paper
“There is only history, and that’s all… That’s all there is, period.”
Historically inaccurate to think that digital is driving students and faculty away from history. Historians were quicker than architects in computing.
Macy conferences in 1958 - Annalles historian Fernand Braudel (game theory and social...
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Occupy Wall Street: What Happens Next?: Places:... →
New York City planning officials have focused on fetishized public space - the Highline, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Ground Zero - to “rebrand New York as a nexus of culture and capital” which blinds its citizens to the wave of privatization that has left its civic apparatus - schools, hospitals, social housing, etc - underfunded and decaying.
On historical consciousness: “If there is...
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November 2011
32 posts
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McKinsey
Interesting use of a drawer.
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Watch(via KM3D-1 | AnOther)
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Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Example of embedding a tumblr blog using an iframe. Be sure to scroll horizontally to the right.
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Fantastic Man Website
The background color changes as you scroll.
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July 2011
7 posts
Larry Cuban on Technology in the Classroom →
The most potent, and terrifying, remark is his assertion that even with computers entering the classroom, teachers’ use is largely “unimaginative”. At GSAPP, my role is not only to develop tools with an expansive imagination that will be put to use imaginatively, but also pit to use in the development if the creative design imagination itself.
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"Why join a company when you can be the company?" →
Claiming that “every business is becoming a digital business” Khoi Vinh proposes the design start-up as the new de facto model in “the creator economy”, asking designers “Why join a company when you can be the company?”
Some key passages:
“…it’s very hard for a design studio to create digital products on a contract basis because the messy...
How to be/work with a creative agency →
Tacking on design thinking at the end of a project is not enough, there must be feedback into the client’s corporate culture: “They went into the relationship ready to do something different. They sought out disruption and questioned core assumptions just as much as we did.”
