Coordinating Architectural Discourse through Online Cross Cultural Exchange
This web project examines the potential for web-based collaborative technologies and social media to foster dialogue between students, teachers, and critics within institutions worldwide. It will offer an online space for publishing, discussion, and commenting on student work from the participating institutions. A beta version will be launched during the summer of 2009.
LA Forum online presence
In my capacity as board member of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design I am working on the redesign and rethinking of the current Forum web site. Among the new roles for the site will be a research database of all publications and documents produced by the Forum since its inception.
Hypercities 2.0
I have working as an information and data architecture consultant to the UCLA Hypercities project, a map-based information publishing framework. My interest in the project lies in its approach to the spatial organization of digital media and in particular how a single system might be designed to offer a broad range of approaches to documenting the history of specific built environments, from synchronic comparison to diachronic narrative.
The current version of Hypercities that predates my involvement is here. The new version will be launched later in 2009.
ELO Directory of Electronic Literature
In the capacity of Technical Director of the Electronic Literature Organization, I am coordinating a major rebuild of the ELO Directory of e-Literature (to be launched later in 2008). During the past year we have also been working as a partner in the Library of Congress digital preservation initiative, where we have been working on the problem of preserving web-based, born-digital works of e-lit.
Digital Roman Forum
Launched in 2006 by the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, this site publishes detailed reconstructions of the ancient Roman Forum and supporting information. This project was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion in The Best of Humanities on the Web.
Architecture’s Media, Messages, and Modes
I was a co-curator of this exhibition (and co-organizer of the accompanying conference) that examined alternatives to the written text as the dominant mode of scholarly communication in architectural research.