MicroActs: Civic Engagement through DIY Urbanism

In Moscow I have investigated how forms of tactical citizen activism addressing urban issues had begun to emerge. In summer 2012 Continue reading →

Youth Agency through Participatory Media and Maker Cultures

I have conducted participatory media programs and examined their outcomes with Palestinian youth in refugee camps from 2006-2011, however upon Continue reading →

Cooperative Innovation in the Commons

Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation Addressing global design challenges in Continue reading →

Aware Community Portals: Situational Interaction in Transitional Spaces

As a researcher at the MIT Media Lab (1996-2003), I conducted HCI and ethnographic research on Situational Interaction in Transitional Spaces examining Continue reading →

Auditory Computing for Engaging User Experiences

While Visual Computing has been a dominant paradigm in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), I believe the role of sound and Continue reading →