OccupyData Hackathons

When I arrived at The New School in the fall of 2011, a vibrant social movement emerged in the streets Continue reading →

Urban Media: Tactics and Performance

How do we make sense of the urban through sensory and embodied experiences? How can we investigate and engage in Continue reading →

Participatory Media Research

This graduate seminar explores participatory approaches to designing and conducting social inquiry using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, particularly for 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 →